UQ Discovery Tour winner Joshua Deerain at University College Dublin in Ireland

Where would you travel to with $10,000? For The University of Queensland’s Discovery Tour winner, Joshua Deerain, it’s the place that influenced Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection – the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).

16 September 2011

First year UQ agricultural science student, Danille Fox, has been awarded the 2011 UQ Gatton Past Students Association Scholarship.

15 September 2011

The University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law has celebrated its 75th anniversary with a gala “Town and Gown” debate at Customs House.

14 September 2011

New University of Queensland (UQ) research on optimising antibiotic dosages for intensive care patients aims to address the current 50 percent death rate associated with common infections.

13 September 2011

The University of Queensland has won five of the nine categories at the 14th annual 2011 Women in Technology awards held in Brisbane last Friday.

12 September 2011

Two engineering students from The University of Queensland have each received $40,000 after being awarded scholarships from the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) and UQ.

12 September 2011

International architectural organisation, The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI), has awarded its prestigious Student Award of Excellence to The University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Architecture student, Amy Learmonth.

9 September 2011

The University of Queensland Business School has been ranked in the top two in Australia for its MBA program in the 2011 survey by the Australian Financial Review BOSS Magazine.

9 September 2011
UQ PhD student Ekta Agarwal

Improved nutritional care policies and practices in hospitals is a potential outcome from new research being conducted at the University of Queensland.

7 September 2011

The University of Queensland has taken out three awards in the 22nd Annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in Sydney last night.

7 September 2011
Award winning: Dr Nigel Armfield and Dr Tim Donovan have developed a telemedicine trial that enables specialists to assess sick infants in regional and country areas. Photo: Queensland Health

A telemedicine trial that enables specialists to assess sick infants in regional and country areas has won the Queensland Health Minister’s ‘Best Innovation’ award at the 2011 Queensland Health Healthcare Improvement Awards.

5 September 2011

Founder and Executive Director of the Hear and Say program, Dr Dimity Dornan, AM, whose lifetime has been devoted to helping deaf children communicate, has been announced as the 2011 UQ Alumnus of the Year.

5 September 2011

The University of Queensland has again been ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities for the eighth year in a row in the QS World University Rankings released today.

5 September 2011
The exterior of the Sir Llew Edwards Building lit to celebrate ICTE-UQ's 30th anniversary

The University of Queensland’s Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE-UQ) has celebrated three decades of success with a week-long calendar of anniversary activities and events.

1 September 2011
2011 Eureka Prize nominee and GCI research fellow John Cook

University of Queensland alumnus Mr John Cook, the creator of SkepticalScience.com and a new appointment to UQ’s Global Change Institute (GCI), has been named as a finalist in the 2011 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

24 August 2011