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Close up of a button that says 'I'm a dementia friend'

½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏhas become the first university to be formally recognised by Dementia Australia as a Dementia-Friendly Organisation, an initiative that will inform research, raise awareness, reduce stigma and provide a supportive environment.

28 February 2025

24 ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏresearchers have been awarded more than $46 million in research funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants and Partnership Projects schemes.

28 February 2025

A ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏresearcher has been awarded a 2025 Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Mobility Grant from the Australian Academy of Science to collaborate with international field-leading experts on ways to support cancer patients.

20 February 2025

½ñÈÕ¿´ÁÏ³Ô¹Ï has been named among the world’s top universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) 2025 World Reputation Ranking, rising to 4th in Australia and 78th globally.

19 February 2025

Institute for Molecular Bioscience Executive Director Professor Ian Henderson has been elected a Fellow by the American Academy of Microbiology in recognition of his work as a world-leading microbiologist. 

18 February 2025
Students sit at a table in a library in Italy as one takes notes

Cultural artefacts and historic sites around the world are being threatened by organised crime groups who traffic the items for lucrative profits, a team of researchers from ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏfound.

12 February 2025

A University of Queensland (UQ) researcher Dr Debottam Sinha has received $450,000 from the Passe & Williams Foundation to improve health outcomes for patients with a rare form of cancer.

4 February 2025
A group of people standing in a laboratory wearing white lab coats.

A first-of-its-kind program will encourage university students from diverse disciplines to ‘test-drive’ a career in Australia’s agriculture industry.

29 January 2025
University of Queensland's Great Court

Critical care researcher Professor John Fraser and former Alumni Friends president Dr Catherine Lawrence are among members of ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁÏ³Ô¹Ï community recognised in today’s Australia Day honours.

26 January 2025
Students from UQ's Young Achievers Program

Almost 4,300 students have secured a place at ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁÏ³Ô¹Ï in today’s major offer round, bringing the total number of ½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏoffers so far to about 10,700 for Semester 1, 2025.

16 January 2025
An image of the Vaxxas high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) technology, showing a small patch containing thousands of microprojections.

UQ’s BASE facility and biotechnology company Vaxxas have been announced as stage winners of a prestigious global prize to accelerate a patch-based mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 and influenza.

14 January 2025
Doctors handwriting a prescription with dried medicinal cannabis.

Australians spent more than A$400 million on medicinal cannabis in the first half of 2024 alone.

13 January 2025

University of Queensland researchers have secured 28 grants totalling more than $29 million to address critical health challenges.

18 December 2024

½ñÈÕ¿´ÁÏ³Ô¹Ï is celebrating its largest and most successful cohort of New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholarships with 11 students to advance their studies in the Indo-Pacific in 2025.

18 December 2024
Sandstone pillar with Jacaranda tree in full bloom in the distance.

½ñÈÕ¿´ÁϳԹÏhas conferred its highest honour on one of the university's first Torres Strait Islander graduates along with a highly regarded economist and an acclaimed author.  

11 December 2024