a spotty lizard with a wide mouth is licking its lips

The full cost of recovering all of Australia’s threatened animals and plants has been calculated for the first time.

7 January 2025
A human hand holding a small earless dragon

Remote cameras and conservation dogs will be deployed as part of a University of Queensland research project aiming to conserve four threatened Queensland reptile species.

12 April 2024

Researchers from The University of Queensland have received more than $110,000 to help safeguard some of Queensland’s most vulnerable species under the Queensland Government’s Threatened Species Program.

20 March 2024
Two koalas sitting on fallen tree trunks

The first comprehensive list of the threats to Australia’s most endangered plants and animals reveals blunt news about the future for some of the country’s favourite species.

2 September 2021

University of Queensland scientists have been rewarded for their work tackling diseases burdening the healthcare system and conserving threatened native species with 2020 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards.

28 August 2020
Fire burns through a stretch of Australian bush.

More than one billion mammals, birds, and reptiles across eastern Australia are estimated to have been affected by the current fire catastrophe.

20 January 2020
Computer generated image of the proposed Health and Recreation Centre

A ‘student-village’ precinct, integrated health and fitness centre and a new Brisbane CBD hub have been given the green light as part of a $206.5 million investment by The University of Queensland.

13 December 2019
Dr Debra Askew outside her office

It takes a village to raise a child and an entire community to support pregnant women to grow healthy babies, says one University of Queensland researcher.

16 October 2019

Startups aiming to become major players in global sportstech innovation will be vying for a spot in The University of Queensland’s 2019 HYPE UQ SPIN Accelerator.

4 February 2019

An endangered Queensland bird is at risk of extinction because environmental legislation is failing to protect its habitat, according to a University of Queensland-led study.

30 January 2019

The first of three University of Queensland Regional Training Hubs supporting junior doctors to undertake specialist training in regional Queensland will be launched on Thursday 19 April.

17 April 2018

The University of Queensland is assessing community submissions regarding its draft master plan, which was released for public feedback in early April.

26 May 2015
Law reform is necessary to avoid complex court cases and to end uncertainty for surrogate babies, mothers and contracting parents.

Australia should urgently legalise commercial surrogacy, says the Family Court’s Chief Justice Diana Bryant.

15 April 2015
Peter Hennessey ‘Parallel cartography (Glonass-K, RUS)’ 2014 aluminium composite panel 250 x 100 x 90 cm Collection of the artist. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Photo: Andrew Curtis

An exhibition surveying a decade of work by contemporary Australian artist Peter Hennessey will open at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 14 March.

5 March 2015

News media have been reporting widespread atrocities by Boko Haram against as many as 2000 civilians in Nigeria. But a similar escalation of violence in Darfur, Sudan, over the past two months has been all but ignored.

22 January 2015

UQ medical alumnus Dr Sam Hawgood has been appointed the 10th chancellor of the prestigious University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

18 July 2014
Exotic lies and sacred ties (the heart that conceals, the tongue that never reveals) 2008installation: pastel, pencil, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on paper, framed, with mosaic china, taxidermy and painted wood 325 x 325 x 130 cm variableCollection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2009

A decade of artwork by leading contemporary artist Danie Mellor is the focus of The University of Queensland Art Museum exhibition Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties, opening on 31 January 2014.

3 October 2013
The University of Queensland Body Donor Program Thanksgiving Service

The University of Queensland Body Donor Thanksgiving Service will be held tomorrow (Thursday 31 May) to commemorate 179 donors whose bodies were received into the care of the School of Biomedical Sciences.

29 May 2013
Dr Robert Davidson

A University of Queensland composer, performer and lecturer is a guest speaker in a line-up of artists and educators at a creative futures symposium on Saturday 27 April.

26 April 2013
Djambawa Marawili ‘Garrangali’ 2010, etching and screenprint, courtesy of the artist and Nomad Art, Darwin

A remarkable exhibition of prints produced by senior Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from a residency at Blue Mud Bay in Eastern Arnhem Land has opened at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

19 April 2013