The winners of the 2020 UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning have been announced and celebrated at a ceremony held at Customs House.

16 March 2021
After more than a century of graduations, Queensland’s largest university is celebrating a major milestone this December: 250,000 graduates.

After more than a century of graduations, Queensland’s largest university is celebrating a major milestone this December: 250,000 graduates.

14 December 2017

Barbara Blackman, a blind 87-year-old alumna of The University of Queensland, has delivered her first book of prose in 20 years.

18 April 2016
UQ graduates who completed their studies in 1913, pictured at their graduation ceremony the following year. Image courtesy of Fryer Library.

Queensland celebrates a century of home-grown university graduates this month, 100 years after The University of Queensland (UQ) graduated its first five students.

12 July 2013

Postgraduate engineering students recently had the opportunity to present their work to potential employers and research partners at the 2011 UQ Engineering Postgraduate Research Conference, held on June 6.

17 June 2011

A new Australia-US alliance of research, government and industry leaders is tackling the future of clean coal at a conference hosted by UQ.

9 April 2008

Pick any Australian novel, play or book of poetry from the last 200 years, and chances are The Bibliography of Australian Literature will be recording it.

29 June 2007

Australia's Indigenous writers and storytellers will be yarning to the world when a new literature website is officially launched this week.

4 June 2007

The first in a monthly series of free, easy-to-understand public lectures covering a wide variety of science topics will be launched in Brisbane on Monday March 13.

7 March 2006

Murder mystery clues, antique surgical instruments and the planning ground for the Allied victory in World War II are part of an array of heritage attractions in a guide launched today at The University of Queensland.

13 December 2005

Tim Gaze is spending less time at university and more time on the road touring with Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes.

27 October 2005

Australia will mark today’s (17/12/03) centenary of powered flight with an historic agreement to coordinate and exploit the country’s research in hypersonics and scramjet technology.

17 December 2003

Australia`s peak scientific body the Australian Academy of Science has awarded a Queensland scientist from the University of Queensland`s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) the prestigious Gottschalk Medal for medical sciences.

15 December 2003

The HyShot experiment involves the world’s first flight tests using supersonic combustion. UQ researchers (Dr Allan Paull, Emeritus Professor Ray Stalker and Dr David Mee) already hold the record for being the first group reported in the open...

27 July 2002

A small group of scientists is quietly bunkering down this week for potentially one the biggest developments in aerospace history.

22 October 2001

The past and present came together at the opening of The University of Queensland's modern $750,000 tennis centre by Federal Member for Ryan and Defence Minister John Moore on Friday, September 8.

8 September 2000

A major research facility capable of producing a microgravity environment is being established at the University of Queensland.

29 September 1999