A hospital corridor with a trolley bed on one side, and an out of focus outline of a hospital worker in green scrubs on the other.

The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria in hospitals could be greatly reduced thanks to research by The University of Queensland and Queensland Health.

17 November 2022
Professor Parkinson pictured on the UQ campus

A parliamentary inquiry has endorsed a law professor’s proposal for a multidisciplinary tribunal to manage parenting disputes for those unable to afford legal representation.

5 May 2021
A sorghum crop.

Farmers across the world could soon access disease-resistant crops using technology discovered by researchers from The University of Queensland after Brisbane start-up Nexgen Plants secured $3 million in investor backing.

21 August 2018

Twelve projects at The University of Queensland will share more than $4.69m in funding from the Federal Government’s Australian Research Council Linkage Project grants announced in Canberra today.

15 June 2018

Research undertaken hand-in-hand with business and industry received a $4.3 million boost at The University of Queensland today, in the latest Australian Research Council Linkage Projects grants.

31 May 2017
A piece of the series by Hollie.

A new exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum offers an insight into Brisbane’s energetic artist-run scene of the 1980s, a time of immense transformation.

29 March 2016
Professor Kwun Fong

The University of Queensland and The Prince Charles Hospital will lead a new centre dedicated to the early detection of lung cancer thanks to $1 million in funding from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF).

10 December 2015
Fish have evolved without developing grey matter or any other brain region with a similar structure

Like humans, fish recoil from pain. But the fish pain reflex mechanism operates quite differently to the way it works in humans, University of Queensland research shows.

23 January 2015

One of Australia’s most influential commercial galleries of the 1960s is the subject of an exhibition opening at The University of Queensland Art Museum on Saturday, 31 May.

19 May 2014
Photo of Geoffrey Rush

Award-winning actor and UQ graduate Geoffrey Rush received one of the highest honours in this year’s Australia Day Awards.

28 January 2014
Innovative pulse-reading technology is at the centre of UQ's blood pressure study to reduce cardiovascular disease.

In a world-first study, researchers from The University of Queensland are using innovative pulse-reading technology to measure blood pressure to reduce cardiovascular disease.

28 May 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

A new report released today has shed light on how sport programs for Indigenous youth can help lead to more fulfilling lifestyles for participants.

29 November 2012

The University of Queensland’s School of Medicine has celebrated the coming graduation of its inaugural UQ-Ochsner class of nine medical students, who have been trained in two continents, at a culmination celebration.

16 November 2012

University of Queensland (UQ) start-up and now ASX-listed company, ImpediMed Limited (ASX:IPD), has been internationally recognised for having made “the biggest difference on an individual while addressing the greatest medical need”.

7 June 2012
Professors Brian Head and Janeen Baxter.

Two University of Queensland professors at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) have been awarded with prestigious appointments to the Australian Research Council College (formerly known as College of Experts) – an acknowledgement that...

21 March 2012
UQ alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

University of Queensland alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

26 January 2012
Inaugural Project Reference Group meeting (left to right), Dr Tim Lucas (DEEDI), Ms Maureen O'Connor (Qld Health), Dr Adrian Cherney (Chief Investigator), Ms Sharon Bailey (Qld Premier's Dept), Prof Paul Boreham (Chief Investigator), Prof Brian Head (Chief Investigator) and Dr John Dungan (DET).

Former senior public servant and University of Queensland researcher Professor Brian Head is setting out to change a widely held perception that while evidence-based research is necessary in medicine and science, the leap to making social policy...

15 December 2011

The University of Queensland’s School of Medicine has announced that it will seriously consider the introduction of an MD (Doctor of Medicine) program to replace the current MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery) program.

16 August 2011

In the first forum of its kind, on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 The University of Queensland will host over 30 Medical Deans and senior staff from 15 Universities in Australia and New Zealand, plus Australian Medical Council and ACER representatives, to...

21 May 2011