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

Knowing how influential parents’ behaviour is with children was the reason a Brisbane father enrolled in a parenting program for divorced and separated couples founded at The University of Queensland.

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

Thousands of past students and staff from all over Australia and the globe, including Governor-General Dr Quentin Bryce AC and Dr David Malouf AO, are planning their return to The University of Queensland for the Centenary Alumni Reunion weekend on...

23 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

Australian scientists are playing a vital role in a worldwide search for cancer therapies, described in the top scientific journal Nature recently.

14 April 2010

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

13 April 2010

A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains.

3 February 2010

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

27 January 2010

The prestigious 2009 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards and the Queensland Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year $10,000 prize were announced in Brisbane last night at UQ's Customs House.

17 November 2009
David Solnet

Savvy tourism operators are using the economic downturn to rise above their competitors.

28 August 2009
Dr David Copland

UQ researchers have found certain drugs can change how the brain processes language in a finding that has implications for new treatments of communication disorders.

21 August 2009

A new UQ seminar series designed to bring together insights from judges, practitioners and legal academics on current legal issues has proved to be highly successful.

10 August 2009
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh

Australia will have a stronger role in global efforts to address major diseases like cancer and diabetes following a $50 million gift, the biggest donation of its kind in the nation’s history.

27 July 2009

Queensland’s top 150 Icons have been released and The University of Queensland’s structures, people and research milestones have made the list.

30 June 2009

Promising new University of Queensland research projects have the potential to revolutionise a diversity of industries, including healthcare, security, chemical, horticulture, energy and electronics.

16 June 2009
Professor John Pearn

Staff and alumni associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday awards.

8 June 2009

UniQuest start-up company, Lightanate Pty Ltd, has secured a major, confidential seven-figure investment to commercialise titanium-based technologies.

31 March 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

Scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) will use a record research grant to give new hope to patients with two of Australia's most fatal cancers.

26 March 2009