UQ Science has recently commissioned three new boats to expand its research and teaching in aquatic and marine science.

17 September 2010

A new cancer vaccine concept developed by researchers at The University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute has been licensed to US-based developer of RNAi (ribonucleic acid interference) therapeutics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., through...

15 September 2010

A $1 million Queensland Government Research Industry Partnership Program (RIPP) grant has enabled University of Queensland magnetic resonance imaging start-up, Magnetica Limited, to release an Information Memorandum and seek grant-matching...

8 September 2010

Young people are often nagged for spending too much time on computers and other gadgets, but this month their technological skills were challenged and rewarded at a Young ICT Explorers judging event.

16 August 2010

A leading researcher from the Queensland Brain Institute has been awarded the 2010 Boycott Prize for career achievement in the field of retinal neuroscience.

3 August 2010
The UQ premier grade rugby XV in action

Expectations are running high for UQ’s rugby players to go all the way to claim the 2010 Brisbane Club Championship.

27 July 2010

The University of Queensland’s decades-long links with an Indigenous group, the Mornington Island Dancers, were strengthened when the group re-visited St Lucia campus recently.

7 July 2010

TC Beirne School of Law Director of Postgraduate Studies Dr Alan Davidson has been invited to become a foundation member of the Council of International Standby Practices (CISP).

29 June 2010

Kathy Hirschfeld was emotionally moved when she walked into UQ’s Senate chamber for the first time this year as a newly appointed Senator.

29 June 2010

Developing a cervical cancer vaccine and watching it start protecting millions of young women worldwide is more than most researchers would hope for in a lifetime.

29 June 2010

The University of Queensland leads an Australian research team that will help usher in the age of personalised medicine, following announcement of $40.2 million by the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, today.

12 June 2010

A UQ mechanical engineering lecturer joins astronomers from NASA, to get a front row seat to study a spacecraft's targeted descent through Earth's atmosphere.

11 June 2010
Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield . . . UQ will always be the people's university

The University of Queensland scooped the pool when Premier Anna Bligh announced the prestigious Queensland Greats Awards today.

3 June 2010
Zuzana Petovska on fieldwork in the Tiwi Islands

UQ’s Rotary Peace Fellows will present their experiences of contemporary peacebuilding during their annual seminar on May 22nd.

17 May 2010

A University of Queensland scientist who is bringing the world of polymer science to food technology has been awarded one of the highest honours by the Australian Academy of Science.

5 May 2010
Major General Paul Alexander, Surgeon General, Australian Defence Force, and Major General Maurie McNarn AO (Ret'd), Executive Director (Operations), UQ

The Australian Department Defence has today entered a Strategic Alliance with The University of Queensland which will see the establishment of a Chair of Military Surgery in the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences.

23 April 2010

Eleven University of Queensland researchers have been honoured as international leaders in their fields at a ceremony today.

13 April 2010

The Visiting Nursing Service of New York will trial the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), developed at The University of Queensland (UQ), with older people it provides care to in the Greater New York area.

30 March 2010

South America has been labelled "the next frontier" for research, student recruitment and tourism partnerships, with academics from The University of Queensland at the forefront of the trend.

29 January 2010

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded more than $8.6million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding announced today.

28 January 2010