Bruce Redman (centre) films Family First candidate John Lewis during the 2004 Federal Election campaign

Life is often stranger than fiction, just ask Dr Bruce Redman.

20 July 2011

A learning facility at The University of Queensland (UQ), following on from a Regional Commendation in March, won a State Commendation for Interior Architecture at the recent 2011 Australian Institute of Architects Awards.

13 July 2011

Graeme Wood is one of Queensland's most successful entrepreneurs and a national leader in philanthropy for education, arts, the environment and youth.

13 July 2011

Else Shepherd is a pioneer and role model in breaking through the barriers to women's professional acceptance particularly in "non-traditional" fields such as engineering.

13 July 2011

UQ staff, students, retailers and visitors have played their part in helping TransLink achieve two million sales of go cards since their launch in 2008.

13 July 2011
Lucy Bechtel (right) with members of The Global Sunrise at UQ

A University of Queensland graduate is playing her part in an ambitious solar energy project in Africa.

12 July 2011
Dr Graeme Were has been invited to present his research on the design of Papua New Guinean mats at the British Museum in October

A surprise find in Papua New Guinea has seen a UQ anthropologist invited to present a prestigious lecture in London.

11 July 2011

Winning The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School’s Enterprize business plan competition a few years ago gave Queensland entrepreneur and UQ IT graduate Mark Bathie just the lift into the “cloud” he needed.

10 July 2011
2011 Churchill Fellow Associate Professor Andreas Schloenhardt

UQ academic Andreas Schloenhardt has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to help Australian law enforcement agencies fight the $15 billion problem of organised crime.

6 July 2011

UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law has been ranked 35th for law in the Social Sciences category of the latest QS World University Rankings® survey.

5 July 2011

The University of Queensland has confirmed its place as one of the top one per cent of world universities in the final results of the first QS Global ranking of universities by subjects released today.

5 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
Spanish internship: Nicole Cocolas is working at the United Nations World Tourism Organisation in Spain during 2011.

A graduate from The University of Queensland (UQ), Nicole Cocolas, is soaking up the Spanish sunshine while completing a sought after internship at the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) headquarters in Madrid.

1 July 2011
(L-R) Tosca Santoso, winner of the individual award in 2010, Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield AO, activist Professor David Bellamy OBE and Sharad Sharma, representative of World Comics India, winner of organisation award 2010

Over 50 nominations from 22 countries have been received for The University of Queensland 2011 Communication for Social Change Award, which closed on Friday, 24 June.

29 June 2011
Bees knees: UQ PhD candidate Tobias Smith has been awarded a Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship to further his research on bees and flies in the tropics.

A childhood interest in bees has resulted in the receipt of a prestigious Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship for a PhD student from The University of Queensland (UQ), Tobias Smith.

29 June 2011

The University of Queensland has been awarded seven Australian Learning and Teaching Council citations for outstanding contributions to student learning.

27 June 2011

A number of people associated with The University of Queensland were honoured in the 2011 Queen's Birthday honours list

20 June 2011
Rick Hill, Josh Spillane and Leon McBride

The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture has proven again that the creative skills developed in its design studios are truly award winning.

20 June 2011

Professor David St John has committed a lifetime of work to the Materials Engineering industry, campaigning tirelessly to improve the educational facilities available to students at The University of Queensland (UQ).

17 June 2011
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science Professor Stephen Walker and Head of the School of Veterinary Science Professor Jonathan Hill (centre) with students at the Gatton prizes ceremony

Outstanding science students based at UQ's Gatton campus were recognised for their achievements at a scholarships and prizes dinner last week.

7 June 2011