L to R: Danielle Prince, Dane Bird-Smith, Maddison Keeney and Bianca Hammett

Six University of Queensland students and five graduates are preparing to step onto the world stage at next month’s Rio Olympics (5-21 August).

21 July 2016

University of Queensland Provost Professor Joanne Wright has announced the appointment of Mark Erickson as UQ’s new Academic Registrar and Director of Academic Services.

3 June 2016

A new way to detect explosives and an alternative to antibiotics for animals are among 19 research projects at The University of Queensland to secure funding to build the state’s future.

20 April 2016
Chris Greig.

The University of Queensland has appointed Professor Chris Greig as chair of its multi-million dollar Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation.

22 January 2016
UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj with alumni and donor Mr Paul Taylor.

A generous donation from two University of Queensland alumni will kick-start a new research centre focused on one of Australia’s most pressing problems – providing affordable and sustainable healthcare.

5 November 2015

Food scientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new, low-cost way of accurately predicting the antimicrobial properties of honey.

25 February 2015
Looking underneath the wavefunction — represented by the Greek letter “psi” — in the search for quantum reality. (Image: Benjamin Duffus and Martin Ringbauer)

Schrödinger’s cat highlights a long-standing dilemma in quantum mechanics: is the cat really alive and dead, or is the weirdness just in our head?

9 February 2015

The University of Queensland’s Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation was officially opened at the St Lucia campus in Brisbane today (17 December).

17 December 2014

Researchers at The University of Queensland believe it might not be possible to build enough low-carbon and renewable power stations to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius – even if there was a global consensus to do so.

17 December 2014
Trajectories of individual molecules of cholera toxin B-subunit binding to the plasma membrane of cultured neurons

Experts will share the latest advances in super-resolution microscopy during a four-day symposium at The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Microscopy Week starting today.

1 April 2014
eX de Medici
‘Spy (Tehran/Qom)’ 2012
watercolour on paper
image/sheet 114 x 166 cm
Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2012
Photo: Carl Warner
Reproduced courtesy of the artist

UQ Art Museum will showcase selected artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection in the last two years.

2 August 2013

Twenty-seven people with links to The University of Queensland were honoured for outstanding service and community contributions in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

26 June 2013
Prominent US energy expert Professor Eric McFarland will lead the new multimillion Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at UQ.

In a coup for Queensland, prominent US energy expert, Professor Eric McFarland will lead the new multimillion Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at The University of Queensland (UQ).

11 June 2013
UQ student entrepreneur Taylah Hasaballah.

Engineering students and alumni from The University of Queensland will showcase their innovative web-based businesses to the public at the ilab DemoDay on May 3.

24 April 2013

The University of Queensland (UQ) physicists are on a quest to build the world’s most accurate thermometer.

11 October 2012

In a world-first, a team of University of Queensland researchers has developed a laboratory aimed at unpacking and understanding the political implications of news television programs.

20 September 2012

Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a UQ-hosted conference recently.

26 April 2012

UQ staff members and teams who have made an exceptional contribution to the University were recognised this month at the annual UQ Staff Recognition Awards.

23 February 2012

Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their teams’ pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault?

1 February 2012

Internationalisation of teaching and learning and leadership in the promotion of overseas mobility was celebrated at the announcement of five 2011 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Internationalisation during The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Teaching...

2 November 2011