With obesity at epidemic levels, The University of Queensland’s Children’s Nutrition Research Centre is opening its Body Composition Laboratory in the New Year to help Brisbane residents keep fit, not fat, in 2012.

22 December 2011
Shayne Neumann MP with UQ student and UQ Sport staff member, Courtney Bailey lifting weights in the new gym.

There will be no excuse for people to not keep fit this summer with the opening of the UQ Fitness and Aquatic Centre – The War Memorial Swimming Pool at The University of Queensland Gatton.

2 December 2011
The new pool at UQ Gatton

UQ Gatton staff, students and the local community will stay cool this summer with the official opening of the UQ Fitness and Aquatic Centre - The War Memorial Swimming Pool on 1 December.

30 November 2011

The University of Queensland has confirmed its place in the world’s top 100 universities in another world university ranking system announced this week.

27 November 2011

University of Queensland researchers from the School of Human Movement Studies have together scooped four of the fourteen prestigious 2011 Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Awards (ASMF Fellow Awards).

16 November 2011

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers are working with the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) to create Australia's first "advanced technology" coal terminals' project at Dudgeon Point on the Central Queensland coast.

14 November 2011

The University of Queensland will celebrate the graduation of the first cohort of UQ Young Achievers at ceremonies across Queensland during October and November.

20 October 2011

The University of Queensland has advanced seven places to be ranked 74th in the world in the Times Higher Education's 2011-2012 World University Rankings released today.

6 October 2011
UQ is proud to be a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers Festival

The University of Queensland will once again play host to some of the world’s top authors as a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which begins this week.

6 September 2011

The University of Queensland has again been ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities for the eighth year in a row in the QS World University Rankings released today.

5 September 2011

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism that may explain why the children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia or autism.

29 August 2011

A University of Queensland PhD scholar is examining the health effects of chewing wild tobacco plants by Central Australian Aboriginal women during pregnancy.

29 July 2011
UQ students, from left, Diogo Costa, Erin Duddy and Boyd Watson enjoy the new pool.

It may be the middle of winter, but that isn't stopping members of the UQ Gatton community from making a splash in the new pool.

8 July 2011
This is the second year in a row that UQ has featured in the top 10 international Best Places to Work in Academia survey, after being a newcomer to the survey last year.

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

2 July 2011

A powerful series of UQ art exhibitions is providing a rare opportunity to discover the human face behind the asylum seeker debate in time for 2011 Refugee Week (June 19–25).

20 June 2011
The cleaner fish

Telling your partner to watch her weight is not recommended-unless you’re a male cleaner fish, reports a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

15 June 2011

Yellow was the colour of the day as high school students presented their sunflowers for the official ‘Weigh In” as part of UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences Sunflower Competition.

28 May 2011

Sunflowers and seeds will adorn UQ Gatton on Tuesday when local school students vie for the 2011 title of heaviest sunflower.

23 May 2011

UQ students showcased their knowledge of Chinese language and culture at an international competition held at St Lucia recently.

20 May 2011

UQ Director of Property and Facilities Alan Egan has provided the latest update on St Lucia works in progress following the January floods.

10 May 2011