The Courting the Greats event celebrated UQ's alumni community and paid tribute to exceptional alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen fields and recognition among their peers.

A distinguished Japanese academic from the tsunami-affected region of Fukushima and a Singaporean CEO who has pioneered clean and renewable energy in South East Asia have been announced as joint winners of The University of Queensland 2011...

27 September 2011
UQ linguistics researcher Dr Felicity Meakins with Gurindji woman Violet Wadrill Nanaku

As the number of Aboriginal languages dwindles, UQ researchers are intensifying their studies to protect and document those that remain.

2 September 2011

More than 170 technologically minded Queensland primary and secondary school students converged on The University of Queensland (UQ) campus recently to showcase their technological prowess.

22 August 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
Associate Professor Pradip Thomas

Negotiating Communication Rights, a critical review of communication for social change movements in India authored by Associate Professor Pradip Thomas, has just been released by Sage Publications.

4 July 2011
Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC with staff at the University of Danang-University of Queensland English Language Institute (UD-UQ ELI) (top) and presenting Dr Pham Thi Hong Nhung an Australian Government Endeavour Executive Award during her visit to Vietnam in May 2011.

The breadth of The University of Queensland's (UQ) activities in Vietnam was observed first-hand by the Governor-General, Dr Quentin Bryce AC, during her recent visit to the country - the first by an Australian Governor-General.

21 June 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in the first QS World University Rankings® for arts and humanities at topuniversities.com.

2 June 2011

University of Queensland (UQ) postdoctoral research fellow Dr Ruth Schulz and her colleagues have created a pair of robots that have their own language.

24 May 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
Russell Lingwoodock with fellow Indigenous staff members Deborah Stiles (right) and Sherrilee Bailiee

The University of Queensland has signaled its continuing commitment to recruit and retain Indigenous staff by signing the Australian Employment Covenant (AEC).

22 February 2011

The University of Queensland’s Engineering research was one of many stand-out performers at UQ in the specialised categories of the Excellence in Research for Australia survey, released yesterday.

31 January 2011

Think you can tell when people are lying? After decades of accepted methods for detecting lies, communications PhD student Edward Reynolds may have a case for challenging those tactics.

20 September 2010

The UQ Confucius Institute (CI) has awarded three Visiting Fellowships to researchers at UQ and Tianjin University in China for work during second semester, 2010.

6 September 2010
The Queensland Premier, Dr Anna Bligh, speaking at the graduation ceremony on Wednesday night

GRADUATION ceremonies this week have brought classic scholarly scenes to The University of Queensland, with academic gowns and mortarboards aplenty being worn with pride around the Great Court and other hallowed halls.

22 July 2010

The University of Queensland’s decades-long links with an Indigenous group, the Mornington Island Dancers, were strengthened when the group re-visited St Lucia campus recently.

7 July 2010

Picking up where Vancouver left off, top school students from around the country will push their brains to the limit when they compete in a linguistics Olympiad at UQ next week.

19 March 2010

A University of Queensland researcher is continuing a life’s passion, bringing medieval literary treasures to contemporary readers.

4 January 2010

University of Queensland student Mariko Senoo hopes to use her translation and interpreting skills to help international companies communicate across different languages.

4 December 2009

Australia’s leading researchers developing the next generation of intelligent systems and robots will come together at a symposium at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute today November 17 and tomorrow November 18.

17 November 2009

The University of Queensland today (Friday, October 2) – one day after the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China – formalised arrangements to establish a Confucius Institute in partnership with Tianjin University.

2 October 2009