Mother and daughter, Elena Block and Elena Escalante-Block, both study journalism at UQ.

Elena Escalante-Block, 21, doesn’t have to wait for mother’s day to spend time with her mum - she just has to go to uni.

11 May 2012
Catherine Drummond … working in Rwanda at a "unique, transitory time"

UQ students are working around the globe in the midst of important legal, political and diplomatic events, after taking up internships with organisations such as NATO and the United Nations.

23 April 2012
Ali Rae (right) meeting the Sheikh during the opening gala of Festival of Thinkers

Ali Rae, 23, from the School of Journalism and Communication (SJC), is one of three UQ coursework masters' students selected to fly to Abu Dhabi in November to take part in the prestigious United Arab Emirates Festival of Thinkers.

15 November 2011
The late Professor John Western AM

UQ will host a public lecture next month to honour the legacy of the late Emeritus Professor John Western AM – the founding father of sociology at the University.

10 August 2011

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PAY FOR is a new public awareness campaign, to be launched on Wednesday, June 1, designed to raise awareness about the reality of human trafficking in Australia.

30 May 2011
David LaMotte. Image: Johnno Chen

Recent 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 2010

Up to 90,000 Australian Diggers who helped win World War II are now missing in Cyberspace, thanks to errors in the government-sponsored online memorial known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll.

8 April 2010

In June this year, Emeritus Professor John Western from the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his services to education and, in particular, to...

10 June 2009

Hundreds of students from around the world will converge upon The University of Queensland for the Asia-Pacific Model United Nations Conference (AMUNC) this July.

10 June 2009

UQ staff and students with entrepreneurial ideas or early stage research projects are encouraged to enter UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer competition, which offers $40,000 in cash prizes.

23 April 2009