Ensuring society’s most vulnerable have access to legal services is the focus of The University of Queensland’s Pro Bono Centre, which is celebrating a decade of continued service to the community.

5 September 2019

The University of Queensland has recognised staff members and teams in the 2017 UQ Awards for Excellence.

7 June 2017
Dr Paul Harpur

A legally blind academic from The University of Queensland has thrown his full support behind a petition demanding Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launch an immediate Royal Commission into the abuse of disabled people.

23 May 2017
Health costs ... a big challenge for Australia. Image: iStock

The University of Queensland’s new Centre for the Business and Economics of Health has opened its doors and will host an international forum on health expenditure this week.

21 February 2017
Back (from left):  Professor Paul Mills; Monica Taylor, Jennifer Gibbons.  Front: Associate Professor Peter Billings, Dr Francesca Bartlett, Belinda Bern, Kate Swanson, Professor Heather Douglas, Associate Professor Tamara Walsh.

The University of Queensland has maintained its position in the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), with the 2016 presentation in Canberra this month confirming that UQ has garnered more national teaching awards than any other...

14 December 2016
UQ's Excellence awardees 2016

Staff who have contributed to The University of Queensland’s vision of excellence have been celebrated and awarded at the 2016 UQ Awards for Excellence.

10 June 2016

The University of Queensland’s Confucius Institute and the Queensland Police Service, Far North District, have joined forces to develop a safety brochure for tourists travelling to North Queensland.

18 January 2016
UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj with alumni and donor Mr Paul Taylor.

A generous donation from two University of Queensland alumni will kick-start a new research centre focused on one of Australia’s most pressing problems – providing affordable and sustainable healthcare.

5 November 2015
2013 UQ Teaching and Learning award winners: Dr Craig Engstrom, Dr Jessica Gallagher, Dr Susan Rowland, Dr Janette McWilliam Front Row, Monica Taylor, Associate Professor Polly Parker, Dr April Wright and Dr Neil Cottrell.

A group of outstanding teachers has been recognised at The University of Queensland's 2013 UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Internationalisation ceremony last night.

29 October 2013
Pictured: Matthew Daniell,  Elizabeth Colbran,  Catherine Garlick,  Victoria Allen, Hannah Baldney,  Lindsay Collins and  Alexandra Wolhuter.

The University of Queensland Pro Bono Centre acknowledged the work of community spirited law students at an awards ceremony on Wednesday 7 August.

5 August 2013

The University of Queensland (UQ) is taking part in two forums that will explore ways of strengthening cross-sector partnerships to improve the delivery of pro bono legal services to the community.

26 April 2013

The University of Queensland's (UQ) Professor Penelope Sanderson has received the highest possible honour in the field of human factors and ergonomics education.

18 December 2012

The Director of The University of Queensland Pro Bono Centre at the TC Beirne School of Law has expressed disappointment and regret at recent State Government funding cuts to the Environmental Defenders Offices in Brisbane and Cairns.

11 July 2012

One of UQ's leading scientists will take his work to the literary world this Friday, September 11.

8 September 2009

University of Queensland researchers have received almost $2 million from the Queensland Government to lead an international alliance working on the next generation of solar cells.

8 September 2009

School-based intervention programs could help curb the amount of antidepressants being prescribed to adolescent boys, UQ research has found.

23 July 2009

UQ staff and graduates feature prominently in the 2009 list of Australia’s 100 most influential engineers.

25 June 2009

The benefits of alcohol are all about moderation. Low to moderate drinking – especially of red wine – appears to reduce causes of mortality, while too much drinking causes multiple organ damage.

12 June 2009
PhD student David Muller

A University of Queensland postgraduate student award that comes as the direct result of an occasional glass of beer or wine, a barbecue, a back deck and a good chin wag between neighbours, has been awarded this year for the first time.

9 June 2009

The University of Queensland has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

5 May 2009