A digital screenshot of a gallery space designed by the Ortelia program

A University of Queensland founded startup that builds exhibition design software for art galleries, museums and theatres has been acquired by Swiss company Culture Software Group.

23 April 2024

The Australian Academy of Humanities have elected three new Fellows, one Honorary Fellow and two Council Members from The University of Queensland.

25 November 2022

A University of Queensland researcher has been bestowed with the highest honour for achievement in the humanities in Australia.

19 November 2019

A senior University of Queensland academic has been appointed Executive Director for Humanities and Creative Arts at the Australian Research Council (ARC).

15 March 2017
UQ graduate Tim Munro is celebrating his third Grammy win today

University of Queensland graduate Tim Munro is celebrating his third Grammy win, after taking out the 2016 Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for his work in sextet ‘eighth blackbird’.

17 February 2016
 Ortelia Virtual Set Designer modelling The Queensland Theatre Company’s Bille Browne Studio. The software enables users to design a set with full theatre lighting.

Digital technology and the arts sector will come to the fore at the commercial launch of two new products from Ortelia on 21 November.

20 November 2013

University of Queensland Drama Professor Joanne Tompkins will become editor of the Theatre Journal in 2015.

29 April 2013
Renowned Australian theatre actor and distinguished member of The University of Queensland's community, Bille Brown, has died aged 61.

A distinguished member of The University of Queensland's community, Bille Brown, died on Sunday, aged 61.

15 January 2013

University of Queensland writer, Dr Kim Wilkins, celebrated her 2,000,000 written word recently, with the publication of her latest novel Lighthouse Bay.

11 October 2012

Visits from a best-selling author, a Nobel prize-winning science writer and more have been made possible by The University of Queensland at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival.

29 August 2012

One of the country’s most distinguished playwrights is visiting The University of Queensland to collaborate with students and showcase some of her acclaimed work.

28 August 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

University of Queensland student actors will never be far from Geoffrey Rush, as UQ is naming a key drama space after its most famous thespian son.

22 March 2010

Graduating PhD student Caroline Heim may be a theatre expert, but she’s often more interested in observing what happens off the stage than on it.

4 December 2009
Ortelia creators Darren Pack, Joanne Tompkins, Sean Ivermee and Laz Kastanis at the UQ Art Museum

An arts innovation enterprise originating from University of Queensland research will be launched tomorrow.

24 March 2009

The acclaimed Our Way: Contemporary Indigenous Art from Lockhart River exhibition can be viewed by people from all over the world, thanks to an innovative 3-D computer program.

4 June 2007

Theatrical producers are used to the harsh words of the critics but one Australian producer is not just expecting criticism from her audience, she is encouraging it.

2 June 2006

A new software program for theatre studies developed by a University of Queensland researcher will take centre stage at an upcoming free public lecture.

28 July 2003

A scientist working on ways of putting a "prawn into space" is among nine winners of the 2001 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards, announced at a ceremony at Customs House in Brisbane last night.

13 September 2001

How Australian theatre spaces are shaped, understood and situated in historical, cultural and political contexts will be examined by Dr Joanne Tompkins.

12 September 2001