The University of Queensland will welcome the second cohort of students from the Ipswich region as UQ Young Achievers during an event at the UQ Ipswich campus on Tuesday, October 19 at 5.30pm.

15 October 2010
Andrew McDonald and Emma McKavanagh at work

There is no shortage of talented apprentice farriers at The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Gatton Vocational Education Centre (G-VEC), with fourth-year apprentices, Emma McKavanagh and Andrew McDonald, showing off their winning skills at the Royal...

13 October 2010
UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners.

Eleven young University of Queensland researchers have been honoured at the 2010 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

22 September 2010

Young people are often nagged for spending too much time on computers and other gadgets, but this month their technological skills were challenged and rewarded at a Young ICT Explorers judging event.

16 August 2010

Young people are often nagged for spending too much time on computers and other gadgets, but on August 7 their technological skills will be challenged and rewarded.

2 August 2010
Professor Joseph Stiglitz

Inadequate taxes on mining means the people of Australia are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer, a Nobel Prize-winning economist told a crowd of 1400 people at The University of Queensland last night.

27 July 2010

A UQ academic’s research into whether nature or nurture influences the development of gut flora has been published in Nature and may hold the key to understanding obesity.

20 July 2010
Professor Chris Moran, Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield, Emeritus Professor Alban Lynch, Treasurer Andrew Fraser and Dr Geoff Gault at the opening

A new University of Queensland research facility will prove that greener mining operations can be more productive.

4 June 2010
Heather Stewart and Michael Williams, joint winners of the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Award

A project which has attracted international University interest in advancing appropriate representation of Indigenous peoples and issues through the student learning experience is this year’s main prize winner in the 2010 UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Equity...

27 May 2010

A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.

10 March 2010

A visionary philanthropist will donate 15 million dollars towards a sustainable building to house a new University of Queensland institute that will target solutions for problems linked to global-scale change.

10 March 2010

The University of Queensland has launched an exciting initiative that aims to address the financial and practical barriers preventing many school students from reaching university.

12 February 2010
(from left) 2009 Alumnus of the Year Else Shepherd, AM, 2009 International Alumnus of the Year Thi Ngoc Diep Nguyen and 2009 Young Alumnus of the Year Dr Catherine Schuetze

Powerlink Chair and the first woman to graduate from electrical engineering at UQ, Else Shepherd, AM, is the University's Alumnus of the Year for 2009.

24 November 2009

The prestigious 2009 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards and the Queensland Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year $10,000 prize were announced in Brisbane last night at UQ's Customs House.

17 November 2009
Emma Browne in Mongolia.

To most Queenslanders, enduring the harsh Mongolian winter doesn’t sound appealing.

16 November 2009
Bachelor of Nursing student Arthur Cassin

With a health system under pressure and nurses in continued demand, The University of Queensland will offer the state’s first fast-tracked Master of Nursing Studies for graduates in 2010.

8 October 2009

Two physics students from The University of Queensland have taken their passion for science on the road and into Queensland classrooms, after earning major Australian ambassador awards.

20 August 2009

Researchers at The University of Queensland have helped identify genes that could hold the key to treating a common and deadly type of breast cancer.

29 July 2009
(from left) Craig McDermott, Harshad Khadiwale, Craig Philipson and Bruce Reid

International cricket has come to The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus.

2 July 2009
Associate Professor Simon Broadley (left) and Professor Matt Brown

New genes discovered by Australian and New Zealand researchers may hold the key to new treatments for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

15 June 2009