A man looking aggressive and threatening stands before a woman at a medical reception desk.

University of Queensland research has found verbal and physical abuse of medical receptionists by patients is rife, and causing lasting harm.

7 July 2023
A close up of the face of a man wearing a surgical mask behind a chess board set with playing pieces

Wearing a face mask can temporarily disrupt decision-making in some situations according to University of Queensland research.

6 December 2022
From left: SQRH Interprofessional Practice Co-ordinator Toni Murray, administration officer Jane White, Bidjara Elder Keelen Mailman and SQRH Director Associate Professor Geoff Argus  in the outdoor education area and yarning circle. SQRH image.

A new training centre nearly 700km west of Brisbane, designed to boost nursing, midwifery and allied health skills in some of Queensland’s most remote areas, officially opened in Charleville today.

19 November 2020

The effect of sleep on learning – particularly after brain injury – is the focus of a study by University of Queensland researchers.

25 September 2019

A donation of $1 million to The University of Queensland will offer hope to thousands of Australians left without the ability to communicate following a stroke.

5 September 2019

Fourteen student athletes have received a University Blue – The University of Queensland’s highest sporting honour – at the 2018 UQ Blues Awards Dinner.

6 November 2018

An anonymous donation of $500,000 will fund Australia’s first dedicated aphasia rehabilitation and research centre.

1 June 2018

Australian athletes have partnered with scientists at The University of Queensland to support research into the effects of concussion.

31 May 2018

University of Queensland students from seven countries will be boiling the kettle and inviting everyone to come for a cuppa to raise money for Cancer Council Queensland on Thursday.

22 May 2018
UQ Centre for Clinical Research group leader Dr Hosam Zowawi.

A new wave of highly antibiotic resistant superbugs has been found in the Middle East Gulf States, discovered by University of Queensland researchers.

18 April 2018
UQ Westpac Asian Exchange Scholarship recipients, from left, David Nyeste, Vincent Singer, Sunny van der Berg, Lachlan Walters and Hai Xia Wang-Pole.

Six UQ students have been awarded Westpac Bicentennial Foundation Asian Exchange Scholarships. The $12,000 bursaries fund students to spend a semester studying at a leading Asian university.

3 August 2017
Cover of the book Last Days of Ava Langdon

University of Queensland Press publishing director Madonna Duffy knew she had found “something special” when she first read a manuscript from Mark O’Flynn in 2015.

21 June 2017

Understanding how exercise affects language learning could help patients with brain conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

23 February 2017
Adults have over 50,000 words stored in their mental dictionaries.

Does emotion influence your ability to learn new words?

12 May 2016

Statement from Associate Professor Jon Willis, Director and Manager of Academic Programs, UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit.

30 March 2016
Prime Minister Tony Abbott looks set to make a case for further sweeping national security changes in the wake of recent terrorist attacks and arrests.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott looks set to make a case for further sweeping national security changes in the wake of recent terrorist attacks and arrests.

17 February 2015
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman being interviewed by the media. Credit: Wikipedia.

If Queensland’s Liberal National Party reclaims government at this Saturday’s election, you can be sure the politicians will be quick to take the credit. But behind the scenes, much of the credit for the LNP’s political revival belongs to the...

27 January 2015
UQ PhD student Megan Rossi’s gut feeling about kidney disease helped her secure the win at last night’s UQ 3MT competition.

University of Queensland PhD student Megan Rossi’s gut feeling about kidney disease helped her secure the win at last night’s UQ Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

12 September 2014
The University of Queensland’s Advanced Engineering Building (AEB). Photo: Peter Bennetts.

Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek officially opened The University of Queensland’s Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) at St Lucia last night.

10 September 2014

National Stroke Week begins today (8 September) and The University of Queensland has two leading speech pathology experts available to speak to media.

8 September 2014