Variants of viruses such as that causing COVID-19 can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge.
9 June 2021The University of Queensland is part of a global mapping and monitoring partnership using satellite imagery and big data processing to respond to the crisis facing coral reefs.
5 June 2018After more than a century of graduations, Queensland’s largest university is celebrating a major milestone this December: 250,000 graduates.
14 December 2017Queensland’s Governor features in a distinguished line-up of community and business leaders celebrated in The University of Queensland’s 2015 Alumni Awards.
17 August 2015As “text zombies” are blamed for a rise in pedestrian collisions, researchers from The University of Queensland are warning that text-messaging puts a walker’s balance, posture and safety at risk.
3 February 2014A collaborative research project aimed at discovering a drug to treat a highly resistant form of breast cancer is one of two projects given the green light by the Queensland Emory Development (QED) Alliance.
7 November 2013The winner of The University of Queensland’s 2013 National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize will be announced on Friday (18 October).
14 October 2013The University of Queensland Art Museum has invited 39 contemporary artists from across Australia to participate in the University’s fourth biennial National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize.
3 July 2013More than 170 technologically minded Queensland primary and secondary school students converged on The University of Queensland (UQ) campus recently to showcase their technological prowess.
22 August 2011The eyes of Australia’s arts community will be on UQ this Friday when a unique portrait prize is decided.
24 November 2009How much disease costs Australia will be the focus of a keynote address by UQ’s Professor Theo Vos at today's Public Health Association of Australia Queensland State Conference.
23 July 2009Tim Gaze is spending less time at university and more time on the road touring with Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes.
27 October 2005Address by Bob Bishop (Chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics, Inc.) following his receipt of his Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at the UQ Centre, St Lucia today at 10am.
15 December 2004Ten innovative groups battled it out at The University of Queensland last week for $125,000 in prizes.
3 November 2003Brain imaging researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have produced high-resolution maps of a dynamic wave of tissue loss in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers.
6 February 2003A new book by a University of Queensland academic argues that gay and lesbian life in Brisbane and Queensland is far more typical of Australia than that of Sydney and New South Wales, or Melbourne and Victoria.
15 March 2001The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.
7 September 1999It's not every day you see an international best-seller on the history of economics.
29 October 1997The University of Queensland will award 72 medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 12 and May 14.
9 May 1997