One of the country’s most distinguished playwrights is visiting The University of Queensland to collaborate with students and showcase some of her acclaimed work.

28 August 2012
This painting by Michael Zavros, portraying a thoroughbred horse draped with the skin of a panther, features at the ANIMAL/HUMAN exhibition at the UQ Art Museum. The exhibition explores the animal-human relationship.

Visitors to a new exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum will come face-to-face with animals and be prompted to consider how we relate with them.

4 May 2012

Can a little bird tell us who will win in Ashgrove? Analysis of Twitter streams can provide clues to electoral outcomes, according to University of Queensland Masters research student Frances Manfield.

21 March 2012

The University of Queensland’s Indooroopilly Experimental Mine focuses on the maintenance of our vegetation community by eradicating threats from exotic flora and fauna.

6 March 2012

A University of Queensland biological researcher has led the Moreton Bay release of four turtles that suffered starvation and illness from the January floods.

1 December 2011
Consumers are driving animal welfare changes which is evident from the range of products now available at supermarkets

The University of Queensland Veterinary Medical Centre is proving to be a hub for both superior animal health care, and training for the next generation of veterinary professionals.

22 February 2011

More than 80 deserving secondary students from schools across Queensland and northern New South Wales converged on The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus last Friday, February 11, to kick off the UQ Young Achievers Program.

10 February 2011
Equine veterinary nurse, Natasha Curlew, checks over the miniature horse foal that was orphaned in the Lockyer Valley floods.

The sick, injured and lost animals that survived the devastating Lockyer Valley flood found refuge at a temporary Noah’s Ark - The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Veterinary Medical Centre at the Gatton campus.

17 January 2011

Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute are one step closer to unlocking the role of colour in animal courtship rituals after identifying a unique feather structure in birds of paradise.

14 December 2010

Scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute have used high-tech equipment to capture underwater creatures at depths not documented from before.

14 July 2010
Dr Hinwood

UQ sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood is at it again, putting the final touches to her most recent university sculpture for St Leo's College.

12 January 2009

The University of Queensland Experimental Mine site at Indooroopilly has joined Brisbane City Council’s Land for Wildlife Program.

3 September 2008

UQ researcher Professor Thomas Marwick has generously donated 14 automatic external defibrillators recently used in a medical trial to the University.

22 May 2008

The University of Queensland is rediscovering elements of a native rainforest at its 7.5 hectare Indooroopilly Experimental Mine site and staff are observing with delight the return of native fauna.

2 April 2008

A world-renowned “bird flu” researcher and University of Hong Kong (HKU) Emeritus Professor will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Science at one of The University of Queensland’s three overseas graduations ceremonies this month (September).

8 September 2004

When faced with producing the most challenging work of his career historian Rod Fisher didn’t throw up his hands in dismay – rather he came up with a postmodern way of presenting the life and times of Silvester Diggles.

18 August 2003

University of Queensland Emeritus Professor Peter Spradbrow has been honoured for his long dedication to improving life in developing countries by developing a simple vaccine for the killer poultry virus Newcastle disease.

11 October 2002

You’ve heard of emu leather, crocodile leather and even cane-toad leather, now brace yourself for chicken leather or “Poulard”.

23 August 2002

Dr Justin Marshall is studying how animals such as reef fish, parrots such as budgerigars, and even poison arrow frogs use colour for communication.

12 September 2001

The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.

23 November 1998