After major gains over the past three years, The University of Queensland has held its position in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities announced today, ranking 55th globally and second in Australia.

15 August 2017
Part of the Wild Australia exhibition: Tamarama Beach, December 1892. Photograph by Kerry & Co. Tyrell Collection: Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Was Meston’s Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world?

14 July 2017
King's College at The University of Queensland

Gender equality campaigner Ms Elizabeth Broderick AO was a special guest of King’s College at The University of Queensland on Friday, 23 June.

23 June 2017
The Draft Master Plan provides conceptual guidance for the development of the UQ St Lucia campus for the coming decades

A new St Lucia Parklands is the centrepiece of a Draft St Lucia Campus Master Plan released for public comment today.

13 March 2017

I refer to Fossil Fuel UQ’s briefing paper “Fossil Fuel Divestment and The University of Queensland” and attendance at the April and August Senate meetings.

7 October 2016

University of Queensland Chief Operating Officer Mr Greg Pringle met with a student delegation from Fossil Free UQ on Monday.

19 April 2016

Summer holidays always throw up the same dilemma – so many books and not enough summer holiday hours to read them all.

23 December 2015
Meeting in the US to discuss the Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative: (from left) UniQuest CEO Dr Dean Moss; UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj; Executive Director of the Emory Institute for Drug Development Professor Dennis Liotta; Director of the Emory Chemical Biology Discovery Center Dr Haian Fu, Head of UQ’s Molecular Virology Unit Professor Paul Young; Director of UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience Professor Brandon Wainwright; and UniQuest’s Executive Director of IP Comm

An initiative to create new and potentially life-changing drugs has taken a step forward at The University of Queensland following an Advance Queensland funding agreement with the Queensland Government.

5 November 2015

As the Kurdish town of Kobane continues to defy Islamic State (IS) forces, many pundits have condemned Turkey’s unwillingness to help the People’s Protection Units (YPG) keep the forces of “evil” at bay.

13 November 2014

Thousands of Australians suffer communication and swallowing disorders for various medical reasons that make the field of speech pathology more complex than ever before.

21 June 2013

The University of Queensland understands from yesterday’s (19 June) press release by the Crime and Misconduct Commission that its investigation into an irregular admission to the School of Medicine has been completed.

20 June 2013

Almost 150 aspiring neuroscientists from across Queensland will compete in the state finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge at the at The University of Queensland on Tuesday June 18.

17 June 2013

A university scholarship has rewarded a student’s passion for the ancient art of slit-drum making and has reinvigorated the industry in Papua New Guinea.

3 June 2013

Queensland parents of children with a disability endure twice as much stress and worry as parents of typically developing children, according to the My Say survey.

20 March 2013

The University of Queensland’s elite Medical Leadership Program is celebrating its inaugural cohort of students at a special pre-graduation event tonight.

10 December 2012

UQ Dean of Law Professor Gerard Carney congratulated alumnus The Hon Patrick Keane on becoming Australia’s 50th High Court judge.

22 November 2012

The University of Queensland is well advanced in the nation’s quest to be a major stakeholder in the new Asian Century, a leading UQ scientist said today.

2 November 2012

The University of Queensland Football Club and Kenmore FC have announced their formal amalgamation, creating one of the largest football clubs in Queensland – the new UQFC.

11 September 2012

The University of Queensland has been appointed the Lead Research Organisation for two large solar photovoltaic (PV) projects which will be built in the next three years in western New South Wales.

8 August 2012

Women are being sidelined from academic careers, and a new study suggests it may come down to the laws of the jungle.

6 July 2012