The cream of The University of Queensland’s teaching crop has been fêted at the annual UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
31 October 2017Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
5 October 2017Climate change will have a major impact on life in Antarctica this century, according to a landmark study published in Nature Climate Change today.
29 September 2015Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned.
21 August 2012Chronic pain relief, the employment aspirations of recently-arrived refugees, urban water use and improved animal production are among new research projects announced today in which The University of Queensland and industry partners will collaborate.
30 June 2012Medical imaging technologies, diabetes II treatments, animal health vaccines and biomedical implants are among University of Queensland research activities to receive vital Queensland Government support, announced this week.
19 June 2012All University of Queensland undergraduate students are being given the opportunity to add an international focus to their degrees.
29 March 2012University of Queensland alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.
26 January 2012Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned.
4 November 2011An international team of Australian and Israeli coral geneticists, including scientists from UQ, has found that corals, among the simplest of Earth’s creatures, have some curiously human-like attributes, thanks to shared genes.
20 January 2011Recent UQ graduate and former Rotary World Peace Fellow David LaMotte has been appointed to a prestigious committee that selects Nobel Peace Prize nominees.
21 December 2010UQ’s Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P) has appointed a new Director of Research, Professor Tim Dunne.
22 October 2010In a first for The University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communication Indigenous Voice project, student stories are being broadcast across the United States on the National Native News radio program.
7 July 2010Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as the top international academic institution outside the USA in the magazine’s annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey.
6 July 2010Ahead of World Press Freedom Day to be held at UQ this weekend, the UQ School of Journalism and Communication will hold a free World Press Freedom Day lecture series commencing tomorrow, Thursday, April 29 at the UQ St Lucia campus.
28 April 2010University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer.
24 December 2009The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding $685,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards tonight (Tuesday, September 22).
22 September 2009Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.
21 April 2009