Professor Lu (right) received his award from Premier Campbell Newman

The State Government has recognised The University of Queensland’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Max Lu, and prominent UQ alumna Dr Dimity Dornan, for their significant contributions to society.

31 May 2013

University of Queensland student Tom McTaggart will travel to Lithuania in August to represent Australia in the Junior World Rowing Championships.

29 May 2013
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology Director Dr Rob Vertessy will be the focus of an upcoming public lecture at The University of Queensland.

Monitoring and forecasting the state of our planet using sophisticated environmental intelligence will be the focus of an upcoming public lecture at The University of Queensland (UQ) on 25 June.

29 May 2013
Distinguished international scholar Professor Michael Fried will present the 2013 Mayne Centre Lecture on Tuesday 4 June.

Distinguished international scholar Professor Michael Fried will present the 2013 Mayne Centre Lecture on Tuesday 4 June at The University of Queensland (UQ).

24 May 2013

An Australian-first aphasia program conducted by The University of Queensland is changing lives for people who experience language difficulties after stroke or neurological injury.

22 May 2013

A UQ alumnus is in the running for one of the world’s best jobs, beating more than 45,000 entrants from 196 counties to score a place as one of the three ‘Queensland Park Ranger’ finalists in Tourism Australia's 'Best Job In The World' campaign.

16 May 2013

University of Queensland medical students and junior doctors are performing a play adaptation of esteemed Brisbane novelist Nick Earls’ World of Chickens’ for charity.

14 May 2013
Joseph Marioni, Blue Painting, Acrylic and Linen on Stretcher
61 x 51 cm 2000 no. 15. Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2001. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane.

An exhibition featuring artworks by American Joseph Marioni and Australian Robert MacPherson is showing at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

29 April 2013

Queensland parents of children with a disability endure twice as much stress and worry as parents of typically developing children, according to the My Say survey.

20 March 2013

Australia is gearing up to be the focus of the international informatics community when we host the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2013 in July this year at The University of Queensland (UQ).

20 February 2013
UQ Head of the School of Social Science Professor David Trigger (left) and UQ archaeologist Professor Marshall Weisler (right), play host at the launch of a book from prize-winning author Professor Jared Diamond, (middle) visiting from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The University of Queensland, in partnership with Brisbane’s Better Bookshops, recently played host to a book launch and public lecture from visionary prize-winning author, Professor Jared Diamond.

5 February 2013

The University of Queensland’s elite Medical Leadership Program is celebrating its inaugural cohort of students at a special pre-graduation event tonight.

10 December 2012

The University of Queensland has congratulated the winners of eight UQ awards which aim to bring bright minds from Indonesia and Australia closer together.

29 November 2012

UQ Dean of Law Professor Gerard Carney congratulated alumnus The Hon Patrick Keane on becoming Australia’s 50th High Court judge.

22 November 2012

The University of Queensland is well advanced in the nation’s quest to be a major stakeholder in the new Asian Century, a leading UQ scientist said today.

2 November 2012

The continued search for identity and recognition by the estimated 10,000 mixed-race children left in Japan when troops departed after World War II will be the topic of a University of Queensland public lecture on Tuesday, November 20

31 October 2012
Linde Ivimey ‘Thumper (Self portrait)’ 2009. Steel armature, acrylic resin, dyed cotton, natural and acrylic fibre, woven chicken and turkey vertebrae, fish bones. Private collection, Melbourne. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane and Gould Galleries, Melbourne

An exhibition surveying the sculptural works by Sydney-based artist Linde Ivimey opens at The University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia on November 3.

11 October 2012

Two University of Queensland law students have contributed to a successful appeal against the sentence in the case of Leslie Andrews, a 63 year-old Aboriginal man convicted of unlawful wounding in March this year.

4 October 2012

The University of Queensland Football Club and Kenmore FC have announced their formal amalgamation, creating one of the largest football clubs in Queensland – the new UQFC.

11 September 2012

The University of Queensland (UQ) has signed a five-year, $2.5 million industry partnership alliance with global miner Vale to build a hub of geomicrobiological knowledge.

10 September 2012