A University of Queensland graduate has been awarded Australia’s most prestigious postgraduate scholarship to study at one of the world’s leading universities.

21 December 2009

Anglo's Safety Risk Management Program (SRMP) developed with the help of UQ researchers, has received an award for innovation and excellence, ousting many strong competitors from a wide range of industries.

3 December 2009

The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), at The University of Queensland has established a professorial position of engagement, believed to be a world-first for the tertiary sector.

17 November 2009

The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland has established a professorial position of engagement, believed to be a world-first for the tertiary sector.

17 November 2009

Medical research worth $40 million will commence at The University of Queensland in 2010, thanks to funding announced by the Federal Government today.

29 October 2009

A University of Queensland researcher is part of a national project which has received $1 million funding to discover the proteins that cause multiple sclerosis (MS).

27 August 2009
Professor Bille Brown at the opening ceremony of the VIII World
Shakespeare Congress, hosted by UQ in 2006

When Bille Brown was honoured at the 2009 Helpmann Awards at the Sydney Opera House recently, he was in fine company.

6 August 2009

Researchers at The University of Queensland have helped identify genes that could hold the key to treating a common and deadly type of breast cancer.

29 July 2009

School-based intervention programs could help curb the amount of antidepressants being prescribed to adolescent boys, UQ research has found.

23 July 2009

University of Queensland student Monty Summers may be running half way across Queensland with 14 friends, but it is other people’s generosity that has him impressed.

20 July 2009
Emeritus Professor Bob Milns and Professor Donald Kyle from the University of Texas

According to University of Texas Professor Donald Kyle, an expert in the field of ancient sport, the original Olympic Games were the ancient Greek version of Woodstock.

10 June 2009
PhD student David Muller

A University of Queensland postgraduate student award that comes as the direct result of an occasional glass of beer or wine, a barbecue, a back deck and a good chin wag between neighbours, has been awarded this year for the first time.

9 June 2009

Six scientists from The University of Queensland have received Smart Future Fellowships to help further their research into areas such as disease detection and clean energy.

5 June 2009

An around-the-clock station committed to delivering “the ultimate digital radio experience” to students will be launched at The University of Queensland (UQ) today.

27 May 2009

Two and a half years ago, Samantha Whittaker began teaching herself Russian with the help of a dictionary, verb books and some audio CDs.

22 May 2009
Self portrait dead 2007. Ben Quilty

Art lovers and novices alike will be thunderstruck by a new exhibition opening at the UQ Art Museum next month.

24 April 2009

One of the world's leading political thinkers, Professor John Keane, will hold a free public lecture on the history and future of democratic rule at UQ next week.

13 November 2008

Queensland’s organ and tissue donation agency has moved into the 21st century by appealing to Generation Y through popular social networking site Facebook.

18 September 2008

The University of Queensland will become a hub for some of the world’s best authors this week as part of the 2008 Brisbane Writers Festival.

16 September 2008

Wotif.com co-founder, philanthropist and University of Queensland alumnus, Graeme Wood, has been named the 2008 Queenslander of the Year.

3 June 2008