Australian humour is what sets the stereotypical Aussie larrikin apart from his foreign counterparts and UQP is bringing a bit of laughter to the table through the newly released book, Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour.

23 February 2009
Associate Professor Robert Beeton

Staff, alumni and students associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Australia Day awards.

27 January 2009

The University of Queensland's increasing focus on quality teaching has been highlighted at its 20th annual teaching awards.

27 October 2008

Health professionals from across Australia will meet in Brisbane tomorrow at a University of Queensland conference focused on prevention and treatment of childhood obesity and eating disorders.

9 October 2008

Imprezzeo, an image-search software company established by university tech-transfer company, UniQuest, has launched into the global market with its innovative platform technology developed by researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) and the...

9 September 2008

The University of Queensland’s (UQ’s) new Northside Clinical School, part of Australia’s largest medical school, is helping to recruit senior medical staff within the Brisbane North Health Service District.

9 September 2008

Two start-up companies spun out of UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s main commercialisation company, have received a financial boost to advance their research priorities.

18 August 2008

Fans of the great poet John Milton will gather from far and wide at the University of Queensland later this month to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth.

4 August 2008

The University of Queensland, the Australian sugar industry and a Korean research force have teamed up with the goal of ‘greening’ the global chemical industry.

29 July 2008

Two entrepreneurial researchers from The University of Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland, have taken their collaborative research further along the commercialisation pathway with their appearance tonight on the ABC’s The New...

18 June 2008

Early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease is in the sights of University of Queensland (UQ) scientists who have secured $1.6 million for new research.

18 June 2008

Approximately 600 delegates will collaborate across three time zones to discuss the role of technology in education during a Blended Learning Conference to be held at The University of Queensland on June 19.

16 June 2008

The University of Queensland has welcomed the focus on people in the next stage of the Smart State Strategy, announced at UQ today by the Premier, Anna Bligh.

21 May 2008

Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has made a donation of journals and books to UQ's Heron Island Research Station (HIRS).

18 May 2008

Researchers from the University of Queensland, in partnership with Queensland Museum, are driving an exciting project designed to generate a new conception of Queensland’s cultural and environmental history.

21 April 2008

The UQ Rugby Academy (UQRA) braved bitter weather conditions and blizzards to promote rugby education during a recent coaching tour of the United States and Canada.

17 April 2008

A new Australia-US alliance of research, government and industry leaders is tackling the future of clean coal at a conference hosted by UQ.

9 April 2008

What is considered ethical legal practice? Where do legal ethics lie in the future? These are some of the topics that will be discussed at the upcoming third International Legal Ethics conference to be held in July on the Gold Coast.

9 April 2008

The participants in the Australia 2020 Summit have been announced and The University of Queensland will be well represented.

2 April 2008

Two UQ Mechanical Engineering students have swapped the lecture theatre for a palm oil mill in Papua New Guinea this semester.

18 March 2008