Researcher in a lab examining a container of sample nanoparticles used in breast cancer research.

UQ researchers are designing nanotechnology they believe could improve how we treat the most aggressive form of breast cancer.

24 March 2025

University of Queensland researchers have secured 28 grants totalling more than $29 million to address critical health challenges.

18 December 2024

The University of Queensland received the equal highest number of Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) awards in Australia.

22 November 2024
White coral underwater.

Leading scientists have found that sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef have reached a 400-year critical level, with human-induced climate change to blame.

8 August 2024
An orange xray-like image of an embryo on a black background

Researchers at UQ have for the first time captured images and video in real time of early embryonic development to understand more about congenital birth defects.

1 July 2024

Researchers from The University of Queensland have received more than $41 million through the National Health and Medical Research Council 2024 Investigator Grants to address health challenges.

3 May 2024
A low angle view of a tennis court, tennis racquet and ball

On New Year’s Day in 1974, Wiradjuri woman Evonne Goolagong delighted spectators at Melbourne’s Kooyong Tennis Club by defeating American Chris Evert to win the women’s singles Australian Open championship.

2 January 2024
woman sits in a wicker chair reading a book

Dr Ellice E.P. Dart became a doctor and medical educator at a time when women were rare in both fields in Australia.

2 November 2022
A group of soldiers with weapons silhouetted against a smoky red sky

Researchers at The University of Queensland have been awarded international funding to combat an expected escalation of skin cancer cases in US troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

12 September 2022
A group of teenage girls next to a smaller group of young girls. The teenagers are wearing pale blue short pleated skirts, red hats, red shirts with tassels, mid-length white socks, and white shoes. The younger children are wearing white dresses, hats, socks and shoes.

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022

An expert in Indigenous architecture, a noted historian and a history-making teacher joined a raft of talented University of Queensland alumni recognised in the 2021 Australia Day honours.

29 January 2021

The innermost suburbs of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne are not seeing a change in gentrification according to new research from The University of Queensland.

16 July 2020

University of Queensland Press (UQP) author Melissa Lucashenko has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, considered Australia’s most prestigious literary prize.

31 July 2019

University of Queensland researchers have partnered with institutes in Kenya, Indonesia and Vietnam to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders in adolescents.

4 December 2018

The University of Queensland has claimed nine champion university pennants at the inaugural UniSport Nationals Div 1 event on the Gold Coast.

3 October 2018
Bali’s Mount Agung seen at sunset from Mount Rinjani.  Image: Rosino

Increasing seismic activity suggests that eruption of Bali’s Mount Agung volcano may be imminent, according to a University of Queensland volcanologist.

26 September 2017
Wildlife conservation expert Dr Tamara Keeley

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni are among 30 women selected as Science & Technology Australia’s first Superstars of STEM.

4 July 2017
Cover of the book Last Days of Ava Langdon

University of Queensland Press publishing director Madonna Duffy knew she had found “something special” when she first read a manuscript from Mark O’Flynn in 2015.

21 June 2017
The QCE Award winners

The University of Queensland is the university of choice for more than half of Queensland’s top performing secondary school students.

21 February 2017
Ichiro Kagiyama, Self portrait in a Sydney Park (1915). Private collection.

The recent discovery of a Japanese photographer’s century-old personal photo album has highlighted gaps in Australia’s photographic history, according to art historian Professor Melissa Miles.

12 October 2016