Advanced prostate cancer drug a step closer to the clinic

A $1.25 million investment is driving the development of a new treatment for advanced and therapy-resistant prostate cancer at UQ.

13 May 2025
Three scientists in white lab coats looking at a computer screen.

New national guidelines to improve fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis

Health professionals will have access to national clinical practice guidelines to help assess and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, after a 4-year research project led by UQ.

13 May 2025
Pregnant woman declining glass of red wine. Adobe
The SportsHub will provide 500 new casual parking spaces, undercover

Construction is racing ahead on St Lucia’s new SportsHub and 500-bay underground car park, adjacent to the UQ Centre.

7 December 2015
Dr Cliff Mallett and the North Queensland Cowboys.

A sports psychology and coaching expert credited with playing a role in the North Queensland Cowboys’ maiden NRL premiership is expected to become one of Australia’s first professors of sports coaching.

4 December 2015

The exceptional quality of research at The University of Queensland has been reaffirmed in the 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment released today.

4 December 2015
The Far Eastern Curlew are suffering rapid declines from loss of habitat along their flight path between Siberia and Australia. Photo: Dirk Hovorka.

University of Queensland scientists are calling for greater international collaboration to save the world’s migratory birds, with research finding more than 90 per cent of species are inadequately protected due to poorly coordinated conservation...

4 December 2015

The Australian government’s action plan for mental health contains “significant potential pitfalls”, according to a University of Queensland mental health services expert.

4 December 2015
A beachgoer points to the missing person's section

Queensland’s surf lifesavers will have a powerful new weapon in their arsenal as they battle to keep international tourists safe on our beaches this summer.

1 December 2015
LittleWren founders Georgia Lejeune and Sonya Gellert met while studying at UQ.

LittleWren is a teen magazine with a difference – there are no articles on eye make-up or tips on what to wear on a first date.

1 December 2015

A nutritionally-enhanced sweet corn developed at The University of Queensland to help prevent blindness in the elderly has won a national innovation award.

1 December 2015
A syphrid fly visiting coriander flowers.

Farmers who use pesticides that spare bees but kill other insects might be ignoring important sources of crop pollination, according to an Australian-led international study.

1 December 2015
UQ's 2016 New Colombo Plan scholars ... from left, Patrick Walsh, Isaac Bennett, Professor Monique Skidmore, Samuel Bullen, UQ's new Chancellor Peter Varghese, Foreign MInister Julie Bishop, Chloe Yap, Carmen Garratt, Lachlan Kenway and UQ Adjunct Research Professor Ian Kemish.

University of Queensland student Patrick Walsh was last night named the New Colombo Plan 2016 Fiji Fellow.

1 December 2015
Timor-Leste is one of the countries that will feel the worst impacts from climate change.

Twenty nations most endangered by climate change are expected to “bloc vote” at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week.

1 December 2015