A University of Queensland study has found that females who experience early puberty have increased levels of aggression.

8 January 2010
Genevieve Beirne

Genevieve Beirne's graduation with her law degree at a University of Queensland ceremony on Tuesday, December 8, would have especially pleased her great great uncle, Thomas Charles Beirne (1860–1949).

2 December 2009

Teenagers whose mothers have mental health impairments are likely to suffer behavioural problems, UQ research has found.

29 July 2009

A new study has found that the children of mothers who gain excessive weight during pregnancy are still at risk for obesity once they reach adulthood.

31 March 2009

Juggling several part-time jobs, university study and elite athletics is no easy task, but Catherine Drummond is not your ordinary scholar.

18 November 2008

A distinguished member of The University of Queensland’s community, Sir Bruce Watson AC, died on November 1, aged 80.

6 November 2008

An innovative irrigation project will be installed at The University of Queensland Boyce Garden at 6 Range Street, Toowoomba, in time for the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers from September 19 to 28.

14 August 2008

They crossed oceans to begin a new life as students in Australia and now sisters Manroop and Charanpreet Soin are about to farewell their time at The University of Queensland to embark on new experiences.

16 July 2008

The world’s oceans are becoming more acid, with potentially devastating consequences for corals and the marine organisms that build reefs and provide much of the Earth’s breathable oxygen.

17 October 2007

The latest book by acclaimed Australian author Dr David Malouf, AO, will be launched at The University of Queensland on Monday, June 4.

30 May 2007

History will be carved at The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus this week when artwork by a patient of the former Ipswich Hospital for the Insane is celebrated.

26 June 2006

A child’s social environment may have only a modest effect on whether very young children become depressed, according to new Australian research.

31 May 2005

Indigo Willing met her new family at the Sydney Airport in 1972, hours after being whisked away from a Vietnamese orphanage.

22 March 2005

A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded $850,000 by one of Australia’s largest private, charitable, medical foundations to develop ways to inhibit head and neck cancers, the fifth most common cancer worldwide.

28 July 2004

Engineering a major change in the way officials in Thailand manage their health system is the aim of $3.2 million project to be led by University of Queensland researchers.

29 August 2003

A masterstroke collaboration between a Brisbane kindergarten and a university art museum has culminated in a new book launched in mid-July this year.

24 July 2003

Former Governor-General The Honourable Sir William Patrick Deane AC KBE will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate at UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) graduation ceremony tomorrow (Thursday, May 29).

28 May 2003

A program involving University of Queensland researchers has dramatically boosted literacy rates in a cohort of almost 700 Queensland high school students.

24 October 2002

Breastfed children are more intelligent, according to the latest findings of a joint University of Queensland–Mater Hospital longitudinal study.

25 September 2002

The mental and physical wellbeing of 21-year-old Australians is to be analysed in an extraordinary longitudinal study that began when these young people were still in the womb.

2 January 2002