UQ Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology student practitioner Kristin Murray works with Emeritus Professor Tian Po Oei and his wife Elizabeth at UQ Healthy Living.

The University of Queensland has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to join the Age-Friendly University Global Network.

16 November 2020
A bucket of mixed colour broken glass which can be used in the process.

A new process turning waste glass into everyday products could save tens of millions of tonnes of glass from going to landfill every year.

22 February 2019
UQ researchers and research supervisors have been recognised for their outstanding contributions in a range of fields at the 2018 UQ Research Week awards

A roll-call of high calibre researchers and research supervisors has been recognised for outstanding contributions in a range of fields at The University of Queensland 2018 Research Week awards.

12 September 2018
Professor Michael Yu is working on revolutionary termiticide products

Challenges of a modern Australia – ranging from melanoma, to termites, to degenerative disorders, reef protection and food provision – are in the sights of six UQ projects to share $4.2 million in State Government funding.

20 October 2017
The Nanopatch targets cells in the skin’s outer layers

Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research led by University of Queensland bioscience experts and funding from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

5 October 2017
Konstantinos Vavitsas is exploring the potential of cyanobacteria

Advancing research in fields as diverse as manufacturing, human health, agriculture and the protection of ecosystems will be the aim of a $13 million investment by CSIRO in which UQ features heavily.

17 August 2017
UQ Associate Professor Ben Hogan

Repairing damaged heart and vascular tissues will be the unique focus of a new University of Queensland research centre, established to combat cardiovascular disease.

2 May 2017
UQ has announced a new partnership with Boeing.

A key partnership will soon take off at The University of Queensland, as Boeing Research and Technology Australia establishes a presence at the UQ St Lucia campus, in an Asia-Pacific first.

22 September 2016
Left to right, from top: Dr Jack Clegg, Dr Liang Zhou, Professor Tapan Saha, Dr Stefanie Becker, 2nd row, from left: Dr Enzo Porrello, Dr Irina Vetter, Dr Qiao Liu, Dr Alessandro Fedrizzi, Associate Professor Jennifer Fleming, Dr Simon Perry.

Seven researchers and two research supervisors from across The University of Queensland were honoured at an excellence awards ceremony this evening.

16 September 2014

The University of Queensland has welcomed 16 new Future Fellows as part of a major Australian Research Council funding announcement today.

23 July 2014

Australian researchers have identified lifestyle factors that impair women’s brain performance as early as age 45.

18 December 2013

Projects to enhance education for disadvantaged children, improve sustainable housing design and increase food production will share in almost $12 million in grants to The University of Queensland.

28 June 2013
Tim Brennan, PhD student at The University of Queensland's Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Ground-breaking Australian research on the viability of aviation biofuels has today been released, at the culmination of almost three years of work by the University of Queensland, James Cook University, The Boeing Company, Virgin Australia, Mackay...

22 May 2013
Professor Matt Trau

Researchers are working on a solution for a large number of breast cancer patients who do not respond to chemotherapy, using $5 million in new funding.

19 December 2012
UQ's Dr Amir Popat is a Young Nanoscience Ambassador and will visit schools next year to promote science and research.

Science and research are not just for doctors and professors in white lab coats, if Amir Popat has his way.

8 November 2012
Proserpine State High School student James Beckett has swapped the classroom for a cutting-edge research lab at UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

Proserpine State High School student James Beckett has swapped the classroom and books for a cutting-edge research lab and multi-million-dollar microscopes.

7 November 2012

A University of Queensland start-up company has won the 2012 Janssen AusBiotech Emerging Company of the Year Award for its needle-free vaccine delivery system.

1 November 2012

The University of Queensland (UQ) physicists are on a quest to build the world’s most accurate thermometer.

11 October 2012

University of Hong Kong PhD student and Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) Trans-Tasman participant Terence Ng has encouraged research students to enter future competitions to learn skills that will be essential to their careers.

10 October 2012

Brisbane Materials, a UniQuest cleantech start-up based on University of Queensland (UQ) research, has closed its AUD$5 million Series A funding round with AUD$2.5 million from the first-ever investment of Australia’s new Southern Cross Renewable...

25 September 2012