A white camera-looking object with two antennas sits above fast flowing brown water with bushland in the background.

A tool developed by UQ researchers that measures floodwater depth and velocity will be sold globally after it was licensed to a US-based company.

13 September 2023
A woman holding a metal rod, with a man in suit looking on.

A Brisbane startup company founded on University of Queensland technology to monitor the health of electricity network transformers has been acquired by French multinational Schneider Electric in a multi-million-dollar deal.

5 April 2022
cane toad

Australia may soon have the jump on cane toads after a Gold Coast not-for-profit was granted an exclusive licence to market a University of Queensland-designed bait for the invasive pests.

22 September 2021
Bushfire 2016: Connecting Science, People and Practice will tackle the burning questions.

Ahead of Australia’s bushfire season, a national conference starting tomorrow at The University of Queensland will bring together bushfire researchers with those at the front line.

27 September 2016

Olivia Newton-John has a lot to answer for. Even now, after 35 years has passed, it is hard to forgive her for her role in Xanadu, a film consistently voted as the worst film of 1980.

13 February 2015
James Casebere, Landscape with House (Dutchess County) #2 2009, digital chromogenic print © 2014 James Casebere, courtesy the artist and Jensen Gallery, Sydney

Four international artists who work in constructed photography will feature in an exhibition opening at The University of Queensland Art Museum on Saturday 1 March.

27 February 2014
Mark Hosking and his mother Christine Adams-Hosking

Most students use their time at university to escape parental supervision, but in the case of Brookfield mother and son Christine Adams-Hosking and Mark Hosking the opposite is true.

9 December 2011
UQ staff and students made the most of National Ride to Work Day

Record numbers of staff and students started today in a sustainable way by cycling to UQ on National Ride to Work Day.

12 October 2011
UQ is proud to be a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers Festival

The University of Queensland will once again play host to some of the world’s top authors as a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which begins this week.

6 September 2011

Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll will be the focus of a public talk at The University of Queensland next month.

26 August 2011

Being goal-oriented has helped former Toowoomba State High School student Genevieve Brook earn a $24,000 UQ Excellence Scholarship.

29 September 2010
An artist's impression of the new Oral Health Centre

The University of Queensland's new Oral Health Centre will treat about 17,000 dental and cancer patients each year and help alleviate a national dentist shortage.

12 May 2009

More than 1000 new health professionals will join the workforce following graduations at The University of Queensland this week.

11 December 2008

Keeping fans of contemporary Australian art satisfied over the summer break is NEW selected recent acquisitions 2007-2008 - the latest exhibition from the UQ Art Museum.

20 November 2008

Nobel Prize winner, Professor Barry J Marshall AC, will describe “The Journey of a Nobel Scientist” at The University of Queensland on Thursday July 24.

27 June 2008

A University of Queensland PhD student is creating medical magic under the big top during these school holidays with her research into treatment for children with cerebral palsy.

25 June 2008

Businesses, investors and community organisations interested in innovations which aim to improve health outcomes for older Australians can learn more at a special UQ presentation next Monday.

17 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

University of Queensland Boat Club (UQBC) members Sally Kehoe and Sam Conrad both tasted success in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics, winning gold in the Australian women’s and men’s eights at the first Rowing World Cup event in Munich on Sunday.

14 May 2008

Spectacular Indigenous art from far North Queensland has arrived in New York for the latest leg of a UQ Art Museum international tour.

17 October 2007