UQ was awarded a total of 77 health and medical research grants today

Australia’s first Centre of Research Excellence in Chronic Kidney Disease will be established at The University of Queensland with a $2.5 million grant announced today.

17 October 2014
Professor Maree Smith . . . has two game-changing pain therapies close to being available on the global market

A vaccine against cervical cancer, a global parenting program, new forms of pain relief, better yielding crops and improved medical imaging are some of many high-impact outcomes of University of Queensland research.

19 September 2013

Thousands of Australians suffer communication and swallowing disorders for various medical reasons that make the field of speech pathology more complex than ever before.

21 June 2013

The University of Queensland School of Medicine and the University's Ipswich Campus will host a special Cocktail Reception in honour of the inaugural graduates from the Ipswich Medicine Program tomorrow, Tuesday, December 11.

10 December 2012
Professor Nick Shaw (HoS, Pharmacy), Christine Bundesent (Director, ICTE-UQ), Marg Cannell, Jacqueline Bond, Michele Feinberg, Alex Rossi, Leigh McKauge, Professor Mick McManus (DVC-A), Lynne Emmerton.

The University of Queensland has been recognised for the calibre of its pharmacy training, receiving an Award for Programs that Enhance Learning at the 2012 Australian Awards for University Teaching in Canberra yesterday.

20 November 2012
UQ PhD student Kate Hayward from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences helps a stroke patient use SMART Arm, a device developed by UQ and James Cook University to assist stroke survivors with their rehabilitation.

A non-robotic device that helps stroke survivors regain upper limb movement is expected to be commercially available in Australia within the next 12 months.

9 November 2012

Leading pain research innovator, University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor Maree Smith, has received a 2012 Life Sciences Queensland Industry Award for Excellence.

7 November 2012
Students Lauren Isherwood, Audric Co, Jacqueline Sale, Tamara Nganeko, Lucy Simpson, Emily Missenden, Jane Sandstrom, Amy Dunning, Laurelie Wall, Lisa Edwards with clinical educators Teresa Quinlan and Gail Woodyat, and Kirsten, a German disability support teacher working in one of the orphanages.

Ten students from The University of Queensland ‘s Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) completed a five-week clinical placement in Hue, Vietnam working with children with disabilities in schools and orphanages.

17 October 2012

Women in Australia are exercising less and most are not eating nearly enough vegetables, researchers have found.

26 September 2012

For women wanting to lose unwanted kilos after pregnancy, University of Queensland researcher Ann Peacock will be running free diet workshops at the Mater Hospital as part of her PhD.

25 September 2012

Visionary philanthropist Mr Andrew Brice and a mainstay of quality current affairs journalism on Australian television screens for more than 40 years Mr Kerry O’Brien will each receive honorary doctorates during UQ's December 7–16 graduation period.

5 December 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

The University of Queensland has won five of the nine categories at the 14th annual 2011 Women in Technology awards held in Brisbane last Friday.

12 September 2011

Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.

17 May 2011
Professor Melissa Little

UQ has received almost $29 million in National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grants - the fourth-largest share of the $447.5 million awarded to institutions across Australia.

12 November 2010

Placing speed cameras on roads reduces the number of road traffic injuries and deaths, according to a new study by University of Queensland and QIMR researchers.

4 October 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
One-time classmates and longtime friends Sir Llew Edwards and Nat Yuen were reunited at UQ on the weekend. (Pic Lyle Radford)

TWO friends who studied medicine together almost half a century ago were honoured at a University of Queensland gala dinner on Saturday night.

5 July 2010
Young Queenslander of the Year Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Giving deaf children an opportunity to be heard has earned UQ graduate and current PhD candidate Dimity Dornan the Queenslander of the Year Award.

3 June 2010

A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains.

3 February 2010