World Heritage listing can be a double-edged sword, a researcher from The University of Queensland’s School of Tourism has found.

22 December 2009

The University of Queensland today received more than $360,000 in Government funding to further strengthen research linkages with China.

18 December 2009

The Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology (CRC SIIB) based at UQ St Lucia has announced another year of strong progress in providing new and diverse opportunities for the Australian sugarcane industry.

20 November 2009
UQ medical student Bayden Sales checks on Tamasipini Palenapa, 5, at Apia Hospital. Photo Bruce Long, The Courier-Mail

A group of UQ medical students have sprung into action in the wake of the Samoan tsunami, raising $2000 in a distinctly Australian way before heading to the island nation for a month-long internship.

20 October 2009

Help for those with type 2 diabetes is only a phone call away, thanks to a research team from UQ’s Centre for Online Health.

16 October 2009

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies.

15 October 2009

The complex activities that occur in the human body so people can accurately reach towards objects is the subject of a new University of Queensland study which holds promise for improved treatment of stroke patients.

24 September 2009

Understanding and preventing obesity is the driving force for University of Queensland researcher Dr Abdullah Mamun.

24 September 2009

A project conducted at The University of Queensland is aiming to uncover why some pregnancy complications can make an individual more susceptible to heart disease and kidney failure.

23 September 2009
2009 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding $685,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards tonight (Tuesday, September 22).

22 September 2009

Award-winning novelist and UQ alumnus Amy Barker will return to Emmanuel College in September to help launch her novel Omega Park.

17 August 2009
Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)

IMBcom – The University of Queensland’s (UQ) company for commercialising technology from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) - today announced that PROLOR Biotech Inc (formerly Modigene Inc) has taken out a non-exclusive licence to UQ’s...

13 August 2009

Many staff and students of The University of Queensland’s physiotherapy community are mourning the death of Dr June Canavan, who was among those killed in Tuesday’s Papua New Guinean plane crash.

13 August 2009

How much disease costs Australia will be the focus of a keynote address by UQ’s Professor Theo Vos at today's Public Health Association of Australia Queensland State Conference.

23 July 2009
Students 'walking on water' during St Lucia Open Day 2008

Potential students to UQ St Lucia’s Open Day (August 2) will not only have the opportunity to plan their future careers but dip their toes into a gravity-defying phenomenon.

20 July 2009
"Berry's Bay, Sydney" by Roy de Maistre. Art Gallery of South Australia.
© Caroline de Mestre Walker

A forgotten Australian art movement will receive the attention it deserves when a new exhibition opens at the UQ Art Museum on July 17.

14 July 2009
Maria and Claudia Bruckner with the project team

Seven UQ Business School students learnt a valuable entrepreneurship lesson this semester—business isn’t just about making money, it’s about improving peoples’ quality of life.

9 July 2009
The Chutes

They’ve studied business, law and medicine at UQ and now Brisbane band The Chutes are putting their textbooks aside to showcase their debut EP in Fortitude Valley on Friday night (July 10).

8 July 2009

Early action could be crucial to addressing the problem of major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appears to be the result of human activities.

8 June 2009

The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus hosted its annual Sunflower Competition last week, with Ferny Grove State High School taking out the prize for heaviest sunflower.

3 June 2009