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

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

Each year thousands of Australians are affected by chronic disease.

4 June 2012
Else Shepherd is a pioneer and role model in breaking through the barriers to women's professional acceptance particularly in “non-traditional” fields such as engineering.

Visionary philanthropist Graeme Wood and a role model for women in non-traditional fields such as engineering, Else Shepherd AM, will each receive honorary doctorates during UQ's July 18–22 graduation period.

13 July 2011
Genevieve Beirne

Genevieve Beirne's graduation with her law degree at a University of Queensland ceremony on Tuesday, December 8, would have especially pleased her great great uncle, Thomas Charles Beirne (1860–1949).

2 December 2009

High Court Justice Susan Kiefel and acclaimed poet Professor Emeritus Thomas Shapcott AO are among seven recipients of University of Queensland honorary doctorates this year.

30 November 2009

Providing shelter this fire season might soon be a reality for Encase, when the team compete for $100,000 in the UQBS Enterprize competition this afternoon at the UQ campus at St Lucia.

16 October 2009
Thomas Keneally

A free public lecture by Australian literary legend Thomas Keneally headlines a page-turning program of UQ events at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival.

4 September 2009
The New Dawn FM team

A pioneering community radio station in Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville, New Dawn FM 95.3, has won the UQ School of Journalism and Communication's 2009 Communication and Social Change Award.

22 August 2009
Pamela Lamb and Leonie McGuire

With 72 staff members dedicated to improving its green image, UQ has plenty of reasons to celebrate World Environment Day, to be held on Friday, June 5.

3 June 2009

The University of Queensland Chancellor, Sir Llew Edwards, AC will bow out after 16 years at the helm, at the 6pm graduation ceremony on Monday, December 15.

15 December 2008

A top social worker, an award-winning poet and one of the Pacific Islands' elder statesmen will speak at UQ graduation ceremonies tomorrow, December 3.

2 December 2008

UQ researcher Professor Thomas Marwick has generously donated 14 automatic external defibrillators recently used in a medical trial to the University.

22 May 2008

The first major solo exhibition of one of Australia’s most respected artists, Paddy Bedford, opens at The University of Queensland Art Museum on Friday, November 16.

7 November 2007

Some of the world’s leading primate experts will meet at UQ from March 9-11 for the 25th annual conference of the Australasian Primate Society.

1 March 2007

A student who achieved a cumulative grade point average of 7 (the highest mark) during his undergraduate studies will receive the Graduate of the Year award at a UQ ceremony tomorrow.

5 December 2006

Dr Elsie Harwood, a pioneer in the field of the psychology of ageing, was closely associated with The University of Queensland for most of her distinguished 94 years. Dr Harwood died on December 31, 2005.

13 January 2006

Nine UQ Business School students will take up paid accounting work experience placements through the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia CA Achiever program this summer.

28 October 2005

Four years after being nominated by The Times of England as a worthy candidate for an Ig Nobel award, UQ’s famous “pitch drop” physics experiment has made the big time.

7 October 2005

Images from the Allied “occupation” of The University of Queensland`s St Lucia campus will be part of a major exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war on August 15, 1945.

10 August 2005