One-time classmates and longtime friends Sir Llew Edwards and Nat Yuen were reunited at UQ on the weekend. (Pic Lyle Radford)

TWO friends who studied medicine together almost half a century ago were honoured at a University of Queensland gala dinner on Saturday night.

5 July 2010

Kathy Hirschfeld was emotionally moved when she walked into UQ’s Senate chamber for the first time this year as a newly appointed Senator.

29 June 2010
Young Queenslander of the Year Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Giving deaf children an opportunity to be heard has earned UQ graduate and current PhD candidate Dimity Dornan the Queenslander of the Year Award.

3 June 2010
UQ Centenary oration: Jack Manning Bancroft to talk about Indigenous education

Jack Manning Bancroft was spurred to serious action when he realised university scholarships for Indigenous people were going unfilled each year — for lack of applicants.

19 April 2010
Nick Earls

Celebrated Australian author Nick Earls’ debut young adult novel After January is now complete.

28 January 2010
Dr Liam Viney

Dr Liam Viney has a truly international view of music, studying with a famous Russian teacher at Yale, teaching in California and performing in Europe.

20 August 2009
Winning UQ students Alex Ng, Michael Heitzmann and Benjamin
Lindenberger in Paris

A team of students from The University of Queensland has won the inaugural Airbus "Fly Your Ideas" challenge at the Paris-Le Bourget Air Show.

20 June 2009

Six engineering students from The University of Queensland have received an $8000 boost to support their studies and energise the State’s power industry.

13 November 2008

Queensland’s Minister for Education and Training, the Hon Mr Rod Welford will officially open the state finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge at The University of Queensland on Tuesday, June 24.

20 June 2008

Six engineering students from The University of Queensland have received bursaries valued at $8000 in an effort to strengthen the State’s energy industry skills base.

5 November 2007

Three UQ scientists have won Smart State Fellowships to continue groundbreaking research on rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral palsy and a hospital superbug.

10 July 2007

The University of Queensland professor behind the world’s first cervical cancer vaccine will receive one of Australia’s most prestigious medical awards tonight.

6 March 2007

Eight up-and-coming University of Queensland researchers have been honoured with awards totalling $552,000 at the 2006 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards held at Brisbane Customs House.

20 September 2006

Get up close and personal with the 2006 winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award at a free cocktail reception at UQ on Friday.

5 September 2006

Now in its sixth year, UQ Business School’s business plan competition Enterprize has seen innovative business ideas from interactive video gaming to life-saving medical technologies.

25 July 2006

With four young children and a three-hour round trip just to make it to class, Suzanne Alexander will be particularly proud when she graduates at The University of Queensland tomorrow.

6 December 2005

The first book by Ipswich resident and UQ Contemporary Studies graduate Toni Risson will be launched at The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus next week.

27 June 2005

For UQ Ipswich graduate Toni Risson, writing her first book has been child's play. Licking Lizards will be published by University of Queensland Press in July.

3 February 2005

Recovery from a traumatic car accident is difficult enough let alone finishing a landmark PhD on northern beef cattle production at the same time.

15 December 2004

University of Queensland researchers studying subjects as diverse as sunscreens for fish, young people and mobile phones, to how babies understand themselves to be human have been recognised in this year`s UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

23 September 2004