Staying physically active cuts risk of early death by 40 per cent

Adults who stay consistently active throughout their life can lower their risk of early death by up to 40 per cent, a global study led by The University of Queensland has found.

11 July 2025
Four cyclists getting outside for sunrise at the Trapiche in Pelotas, Brazil

Friday essay: ‘An oasis in the desert’

Jackie Huggins reflects on her deep history with Carnarvorn Gorge.

11 July 2025
Landscape pic of a gorge

The University of Queensland has advanced two places to be named 41st in the world in the UK's Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, released today.*

8 October 2009

A healthcare facility operated by The University of Queensland (UQ) in partnership with Queensland Health has won the Queensland General Practice of the Year Award.

7 October 2009

Limited competition in the grocery sector could be having a serious effect on public health, according to a University of Queensland study published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

6 October 2009

In a major advance in understanding how our eyesight works, Australian scientists have shown that birds' amazing flight and landing precision relies on their ability to detect edges.

6 October 2009
UQ students (from front left) Lauren Ware, Emily Rowe, Amy Randall, Joshua Adams, Georgina Horsburgh and Isabella Tannock get ready to celebrate local talent at BUGFest

Up and coming UQ playwrights will keep the tradition of BUGFest alive when the annual theatre festival hits the Cement Box theatre from October 21.

6 October 2009

UQ Architecture research is taking a fresh approach to a debate which has been raging for centuries – is architecture art or is it a profession?

6 October 2009

Tales of romance may form the basis of Kylie Layton’s Masters research, but she is required to delve deeper than Mills and Boon novels.

6 October 2009

How could picture-perfect Heron Island – a remote coral cay on the Tropic of Capricorn north east of Gladstone – possibly be the subject of an artist’s ecological scrutiny?

5 October 2009

Lose yourself in a world where madcap, lovelorn characters mix with live music and song when UQ’s resident theatre company takes over the Roma Street Parkland this week.

5 October 2009

An upcoming University of Queensland public lecture will make you realise how much we mirror each other's actions as a means to communicate.

5 October 2009

UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find – well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.

5 October 2009