Selena Uibo

For UQ graduand Selena Uibo, giving back is her driving force.

13 December 2010

The Global Change Institute small grant recipients for 2010 have been announced and illustrate the breadth and depth of research activities at The University of Queensland.

22 November 2010

The University of Queensland topped the nation in the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowships announced today, being awarded 31 fellowships worth a total of more than $22 million.

17 November 2010
UQ students Aaron Simson-Woods (front) and Rob Stewart are heading to the 2011 World Junior Bobsleigh Championships in the United States

Two UQ students are hoping to script their very own Cool Runnings story – working against the odds (and the weather) to represent Australia at the 2011 World Junior Bobsleigh Championships.

16 November 2010
UQ student Winnie Van with school children from the Fey y Alegria School in Peru

Seven UQ students have recently returned from the trip of a lifetime after volunteering in Peru.

4 October 2010
2010 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Oliver She

A gifted UQ music student who commenced piano lessons at four years of age has taken out Australia’s top classical music prize.

3 September 2010
The top 25 photo, currently on display in Melbourne’s Federation Square

An image of a tiny bird from a remote island in British Columbia has seen a UQ researcher shortlisted for a top photography prize.

13 August 2010

Couples where one member has dementia and the other is the primary care-giver are sought for a UQ–University of Melbourne research study.

5 August 2010

A leading researcher from the Queensland Brain Institute has been awarded the 2010 Boycott Prize for career achievement in the field of retinal neuroscience.

3 August 2010

Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as the top international academic institution outside the USA in the magazine’s annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey.

6 July 2010

A UQ PhD student is battling an elusive virus to save Australia’s tomato sauce and sandwiches.

25 June 2010

A University of Queensland (UQ) mechanical engineering lecturer is one of two Australian academics to join astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organisations who will get a front row seat and a rare...

11 June 2010

CBC News executive Heaton Dyer will provide a keynote address at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day Indigenous Voice Closing the Gap Forum on May 1 at The University of Queensland in Brisbane.

11 April 2010

An award-winning journalism professor from the United States will share two decades of knowledge about informing the next generation of journalists to cover Indigenous Issues on May 1 at The University of Queensland.

11 April 2010

UQ education and Indigenous Studies student Selena Uibo has learnt a valuable lesson from a recent trip to Vanuatu: learning from other cultures can teach you a lot about yourself.

1 April 2010

University of Queensland student actors will never be far from Geoffrey Rush, as UQ is naming a key drama space after its most famous thespian son.

22 March 2010

Picking up where Vancouver left off, top school students from around the country will push their brains to the limit when they compete in a linguistics Olympiad at UQ next week.

19 March 2010

The University of Queensland, via its commercialisation company, UniQuest, has signed an agreement with the Endeavour Foundation to extend its rights to deliver the innovative Latch-On literacy program for another five years.

2 March 2010
At team of UQ commerce students has placed third in an international trading competition

At team of commerce students from The University of Queensland has placed third in an international trading competition held in Canada earlier in the week.

23 February 2010

It may seem like a really long holiday, but Nicquel Rhoden is taking her upcoming trip as the New Zealand “dream job” winner very seriously.

18 February 2010