Dr Rowan Gillies at work in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr Rowan Gillies, will continue a proud tradition when he gives the E S Meyers Memorial Lecture at UQ this Friday.

18 August 2009
Professor John Pearn

Staff and alumni associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday awards.

8 June 2009

The Queensland University Regiment has led the pack at the recent Royal Military College of Australia Graduation Weekend, outstripping its interstate counterparts on the eve of its 60th anniversary.

7 April 2008

The man regarded as the father of medical research in Queensland, Professor Emeritus John Howard Tyrer, CBE, has died, aged 86.

14 June 2006

Distinguished clinician, academic and military doctor, Professor John Pearn, AM, RFD, KStJ, has been named The University of Queensland’s Alumnus of the Year for 2004.

28 October 2004

A number of members of The University of Queensland community were honoured with Centenary Medals, announced by Prime Minister John Howard last month.

20 May 2003

What chance of relief has a child with severe medical problems when he lives on the slopes of the Himalayan Mountains? Quite good, in fact, thanks to a group of Queensland doctors and an internet-savvy charity that is connecting doctors with...

31 July 2002

A Queensland family has donated the papers of pioneering bush nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny to The University of Queensland Library.

2 April 2001

Australia's first course in medical journalism is being planned at the University of Queensland.

22 July 1999

Surrounded by hostile troops in the wilds of Rwanda, University of Queensland paediatrician and Army medical officer John Pearn faced one of the stickiest situations of his long and colourful career.

2 February 1999

University of Queensland researchers have developed a detection method for a toxin responsible for around 25,000 food poisoning cases in the world each year.

4 March 1997