A host of new degrees being offered at The University of Queensland (UQ) in 2011 will give UQ students a competitive edge.

15 November 2010

ANALYSING techniques used in the theatre to keep audiences spellbound led a University of Queensland psychology lecturer to change his own teaching style, with amazing results.

1 November 2010
Professor Don Anderson

University of Queensland Business School Emeritus Professor Reg Gynther is one of five accounting experts inducted into Australia’s accounting hall of fame last week.

13 October 2010

Researchers from UQ’s Institute for Social Science Research have found that marriage no longer enjoys the privileged status it once did.

20 September 2010

School of Tourism Adjunct Professor Stephen Wicks has secured one of his greatest achievements, but says it is all about giving back.

17 September 2010
Crocodile (detail) by unknown artist (1958). Ochres and resin on wood. Collection of The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

The University of Queensland Art Museum will be swimming with crocodiles, sharks and the odd dugong for its next exhibition, and you’re encouraged to dive in for the experience.

24 August 2010

Muslim countries are caught between developing their tourism industries and making sure their culture is not eroded in the process, a leading researcher from The University of Queensland says.

13 August 2010

It’s official: Coalition politicians are less certain than their Labor counterparts that climate change exists and less likely to consider it a serious threat to human existence, a new survey shows.

12 August 2010

A collaborative research team led by Professor Bill Martin of UQ’s Institute for Social Science Research will conduct the Federal Government’s Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme evaluation.

7 July 2010

An interdisciplinary research team at The University of Queensland has been awarded a third grant from the US based MacArthur Foundation to continue a conservation project in Solomon Islands for a further three years.

21 June 2010

A one-day seminar taking place at the University of Queensland in July will facilitate the continuing urgent debate about Australia’s offshore constitutional laws and the unsatisfactory nature of the federal issues between the States and the...

25 May 2010

A University of Queensland centre, Rangelands Australia, has become the first University-based initiative to be recognised by an Australian Rural Education Award.

19 January 2010

As South-East Queensland adopts new water guidelines this month, UQ graduate Nathan Cammerman has his eyes firmly set on helping to educate the community on water management.

8 December 2009

Graduating PhD student Caroline Heim may be a theatre expert, but she’s often more interested in observing what happens off the stage than on it.

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

Dr Norm Duke, from UQ's Centre for Marine Studies, is examining the potential risk to coastline ecosystems following the Montara oil and gas leak in WA.

10 November 2009
L to R: Professor Hugh Possingham, Mr Brian Sherman AM (Sherman Foundation), Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General, Dr Ian Ball and Mr Matt Watts

The designers of conservation planning software that helped rezone the Great Barrier Reef have been recognised with the prestigious Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

21 August 2009

The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus celebrates its 10th anniversary today with a special event which also launched the teaching of Medicine at the campus.

24 July 2009
Valedictorian and Bachelor of Midwifery graduate Rebecca Taylen

More than 130 graduands, including the first students of the Bachelor of Midwifery, are preparing for The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus Mid-Year Graduation Ceremony, to be held at the Ipswich Civic Hall on Monday, July 20.

17 July 2009

Two staff members from the School of Journalism and Communication recently spent a week in Samoa discussing the media freedom issues plaguing Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific.

25 May 2009