UQ Chancellor Peter Varghese AO, Professor Sarah Derrington (Dean of Law and Head of TC Beirne School of Law), The Honourable Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj.

The $35-million renovation of a Brisbane icon – The University of Queensland’s Forgan Smith building – has been officially opened by The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

14 March 2017
Justice Roslyn Atkinson AO

The Supreme Court’s Justice Roslyn Atkinson, AO, is among University of Queensland alumni who received awards in the Australia Day 2015 Honours List.

27 January 2015

The University of Queensland (UQ) postgraduate students are tackling issues in the Australian tourism, hospitality and event industries after participating in innovative problem based learning with prominent industry leaders.

26 September 2012

Community can be a formidable force, capable of achieving the seemingly impossible.

17 September 2012

A new UQ seminar series designed to bring together insights from judges, practitioners and legal academics on current legal issues has proved to be highly successful.

10 August 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will use a $5 million grant from the Queensland State Government to unlock the genetic causes of pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

20 May 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

Scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) will use a record research grant to give new hope to patients with two of Australia's most fatal cancers.

26 March 2009

The University of Queensland recognised some of its best teachers last night at the 2004 awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research Higher Degree Supervision and Enhancement of Student Learning.

16 November 2004

A number of members of The University of Queensland community were honoured with Centenary Medals, announced by Prime Minister John Howard last month.

20 May 2003

Internationally renowned neuroscientist and brain stem cell researcher Professor Perry Bartlett has accepted a senior post at The University of Queensland.

28 August 2002

The University of Queensland's $1.25 million HyShot program is counting down to its Woomera launch in October with final flight reviews and testing of all components.

6 August 2001

The $1.25 million University of Queensland Hyshot project has passed its latest test by successfully blowing its nose.

24 May 2001

Professor Brandon Wainwright deputy director of the University of Queensland's Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (CMCB) and Professor of Biochemistry has been awarded the Fisher Prize and Lecture from the University of Adelaide.

30 November 1999

More than 400 scientists from around the world will converge on Brisbane in late March to hear a progress report on the Human Genome Project, an effort aimed at mapping the estimated 80,000 genes that determine each human being.

18 March 1999

A University of Queensland student's extraction of DNA from human bones submerged in the sea for more than 200 years is believed to be a world-first.

13 November 1998

University of Queensland medical graduate Professor Jonathan Sprent has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, an independent scientific academy founded in 1660 by Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle and Robert Moray.

10 June 1998