Writer/Director, Doan Nguyen and Director of Photographer, Geoff Saville on location

Charity fundraising and helping aspiring actors are the twin motivators which have helped a marketing lecturer at The University of Queensland turn a dream into a full-length feature movie.

17 July 2009

Two UQ Science researchers have proved two famous physical laws that have been widely used for the past 25 years do not always work.

6 July 2009
Monty Summers (left) and Tighe Summers

Next week, Monty Summers will set off on a fundraising run from Brisbane to Longreach – but the 1200 kilometre trek will be a walk in the park compared to his two-year battle against leukaemia.

6 July 2009
Pamela Lamb and Leonie McGuire

With 72 staff members dedicated to improving its green image, UQ has plenty of reasons to celebrate World Environment Day, to be held on Friday, June 5.

3 June 2009
Professor Scott O'Neill

An international team of collaborators, aiming to eliminate dengue fever worldwide, has taken a major step forward with the opening of a state of the art Mosquito Research Facility (MRF) in Cairns.

3 June 2009

The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) at UQ is celebrating its 75th anniversary and the education of thousands of students in a second language.

29 May 2009

Biologists from the University of Queensland have teamed up with Sea World and Sydney Aquarium to assess the health and reproductive status of wild dugongs in Moreton Bay this week.

15 May 2009

The Honourable Justice Martin Daubney, a current Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, has been elected the new President of the King’s College Council at its recent Annual General Meeting.

1 May 2009
Dragonfish (Echiostoma barbatum) with bioluminescent chin barbell (lure)

A University of Queensland researcher has returned from where no person has been before – deep in the western Pacific.

29 April 2009

UQ staff and students with entrepreneurial ideas or early stage research projects are encouraged to enter UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer competition, which offers $40,000 in cash prizes.

23 April 2009
(From left) Sanah Christopher, Tiffany Zigras, Ben Tisdell, Lisa Byron

With their final stitches in place, UQ’s medical students have used their creative prowess to transform old scrubs into striking designs as part of the third annual TIME Charity Fashion Parade.

23 April 2009
Marissa Edwards

Marissa Edwards looked to the Bundaberg Base Hospital experience when she started her University of Queensland PhD investigating what people do when confronted by wrongdoing in the workplace.

20 April 2009

A new biographical website has been launched on an important 1950s Northern Territory judge, combining unpublished cases, media reportage and contemporary analysis on an important period in Australian legal history.

8 April 2009
Kathleen Parker

Music lovers are in for a treat this weekend at Customs House when UQ music graduate and rising opera star Kathleen Parker presents a free program of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

27 March 2009

A UQ researcher has revealed a new treatment for a speech disorder that commonly affects those who have suffered a stroke or brain injury.

26 March 2009
Ortelia creators Darren Pack, Joanne Tompkins, Sean Ivermee and Laz Kastanis at the UQ Art Museum

An arts innovation enterprise originating from University of Queensland research will be launched tomorrow.

24 March 2009
Ms Oyama and her daughter Akane

Not many mothers can say they share university classes with their daughter, but UQ postgraduate Victoria Oyama is one of them.

17 March 2009
Associate Professor Walker

UQ Business School’s Julie Walker beat 2500 lecturers across Australia to take out the UniJobs 2008 Lecturer of the Year award last week.

10 February 2009
UQ medical student Sean Mitchell working with high school students in Rwanda

UQ postgraduate Sean Mitchell tested both sides of his brain recently in Africa as part of his medical studies.

6 February 2009

UQ researchers and Research Higher Degree students can learn more about getting their discoveries, inventions and expertise out to the global market at UniQuest's annual research commercialisation workshops.

3 February 2009