Director of independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation GetUp! Simon Sheikh will visit The University of Queensland as the keynote speaker in a free, half-day public symposium on ‘Listening to the Quietest Voices’ on Wednesday October...

10 October 2011

The University of Queensland has advanced seven places to be ranked 74th in the world in the Times Higher Education's 2011-2012 World University Rankings released today.

6 October 2011

Leading Australian university, The University of Queensland, will continue its Global Challenges Leadership series with a seminar and networking event in Japan today, Wednesday, October 5.

5 October 2011

Students now have access to a new $1.2 million-plus innovative learning facility at The University of Queensland, School of Human Movement Studies.

3 October 2011

Explaining the complexities of reliable forensic evidence in three minutes has won a student from The University of Queensland the 2011 Australia-New Zealand Three Minute Thesis challenge held at The University of Western Australia.

3 October 2011
“Making a Difference”

150 University of Queensland students attended a student forum on “Making a Difference” this month as part of the fifth UQ Latin America colloquium.

29 September 2011
“Partnerships for Human and Social Capacity Building”

“Partnerships for Human and Social Capacity Building” was the theme of the fifth annual Latin American colloquium held at UQ St Lucia earlier this month.

29 September 2011
UQ's Vice Chancellor Paul Greenfield AO with Chemeca Medal winner Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Max Lu

University of Queensland academics and a student have together scooped one third of the 2011 Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineering including the prestigious Chemeca Medal.

28 September 2011
Severin Kaemmerer with Dr Anna Ciccarelli

17 year-old Severin Kaemmerer swapped the green hills of Bavaria for the Brisbane city skyline after coming second in ‘Jugend Forscht’ — Germany’s biggest youth science competition.

27 September 2011

Staff who helped The University of Queensland recover rapidly from flood mode to normal business operations this year are among 65 people recognised as “Miracle Workers” at a special ceremony today, September 29.

27 September 2011

The founder of deaf-mute participatory theatre initiative from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a Ugandan organisation preventing violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa have been announced as the 2011 Communication for Social Change...

27 September 2011

UQ will play host this week to the first ever International Studies Association (ISA) conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific Region.

27 September 2011
UQ's Professor Melissa Little, who along with Professor Ian Frazer has been appointed to a new panel which will oversee a 10-year strategic health and medical research plan for the nation

Two University of Queensland researchers have been chosen as part of an expert panel to conduct an independent review on health and medical research in Australia.

27 September 2011
An image collected by a Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (BRUVS). Image courtesy of CSIRO

UQ student Kate Fraser is helping sustain fish species in southern Queensland thanks to a State Government scholarship with the University of Queensland.

27 September 2011
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