The winners of the 2020 UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning have been announced and celebrated at a ceremony held at Customs House.

16 March 2021

A prehistoric croc measuring more than five metres long – dubbed the ‘swamp king’ – ruled south eastern Queensland waterways only a few million years ago.

22 December 2020
Hobo, a northern hairy-nosed wombat rescued by Tina Janssen of Australian Animals Care and Education Sanctuary

Do you know the difference between freezing wombat sperm and koala sperm?

7 June 2017
(L-R): Dr Simon Collins, Al Mucci, Frank Manthey, Samantha Nixon

Scientists have gained a better understanding of severe dental problem in bilbies and how to treat them by using advanced CT scans and 3D printed models.

19 December 2013

Crucial knowledge on how Queensland koalas adapt to heat, cope with habitat loss and transmit common diseases will be the focus of five research projects.

11 June 2013
A male crocodile at Koorana

The world’s first artificial insemination of crocodiles is one step closer thanks to a novel project between The University of Queensland (UQ) and a central Queensland farmer.

28 August 2012
Associate Professor Robert Beeton

Staff, alumni and students associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Australia Day awards.

27 January 2009

UQ technology which helps train the next generation of veterinarians in a virtual environment was recognised at a recent tertiary education conference in Singapore.

1 February 2008

Camryn Allen has barely finished her PhD but is already planning her trip back to UQ to continue her koala research.

31 October 2007

An endangered mouse-like marsupial from central Australia has been found to run more than 30 kilometres in one day while in heat.

6 March 2007

Weighing a couple of tonnes and with jaws that can kill, the hippopotamus is about to open up and say aaah for science.

27 February 2007

UQ scientists today unveiled koala joeys produced by artificial insemination (AI) as part of the development of the world’s first koala sperm bank.

30 October 2006

Seven UQ researchers have been honoured with awards totalling $450,000 at the 2005 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards for early career researchers held at Brisbane Customs House.

22 September 2005

A University of Queensland (UQ) scientist who has won a $50,000 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award this week plans to establish the world’s largest echidna research centre.

21 September 2005

UQ Business School will host Senator Elect Barnaby Joyce, Telstra’s Steve Johnston, and Alan Ducret of the ACCC on Wednesday 25 May to discuss the future of Telstra.

24 May 2005

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a new and unusual organism living in a delicate part of the male koala's anatomy.

9 May 2001

When Colette Harmsen graduated bachelor of veterinary science from the University of Queensland last year [December 1999], she hardly expected to be spending this Christmas studying elephant seals on Macquarie Island.

19 December 2000

A University of Queensland researcher is part of a collaborative project resulting in the world's first two Barbary Sheep born through artificial insemination (AI).

18 October 1999

First there was one, and now there are six baby koalas - the world's first marsupial offspring born following artificial insemination of their mothers

27 October 1998

A Queensland research team today announced the birth of the world's first koala baby, following artificial insemination of its mother.

14 May 1998