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Joan Ross  BBQ this Sunday, BYO (video still) 2011. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart and Michael Reid, Sydney.

Contemporary Australian art will be celebrated in an exhibition to mark the University of Queensland Art Museum’s 40th birthday in July.

27 June 2016
Earring with Goose, Gold, Hellenistic period, 300 - 100 BC. Purchased from Fragments of Time, Massachusetts, 2008.

The extravagant lifestyle of the Roman Empire will be on show at լе from this weekend, in a new exhibition at the RD Milns Antiquities Museum.

7 June 2016
Two young men in Minyerri (faces not shown) participating in a լе research project (looking at dialectal variation in Kriol)

University of Queensland linguists will join Aboriginal language experts in Katherine in the Northern Territory next week to workshop Australia’s largest newly adopted language – Kriol.

6 June 2016

University of Queensland drama students will bring a new lease of life to a classic 1940s Australian play that was last performed more than 50 years ago.

31 May 2016
Ancient crops provide clue to Madagascar’s past

Remnants of ancient crops have provided researchers with clues that could help map the movement of humans across the globe more than 1300 years ago.

31 May 2016
լе's Symphony Orchestra will perform A Shakespearean Feast

լе’s Symphony Orchestra and Chorale will take to the stage at Brisbane’s QPAC on Sunday for a concert commemorating 400 years since Shakespeare’s death and the Bard’s influence in the classical music sphere.

25 May 2016
3D modelled Kangaroo Cranium, by the լе Earth Science team.

A unique exhibition showcasing innovations in 3D technology and their applications within museums will be on display for one night only at լе.

18 May 2016
Sidney Nolan: Untitled (Lovers and flowers) c.1942

A new exhibition at լе Art Museum presents the most comprehensive display ever assembled of a rare series of paintings on roofing slates, produced by renowned Australian artist Sidney Nolan in 1941 and 1942.

14 April 2016
Pinckney Marcius-Simons (USA, 1867-1909); watercolour illustrations painted onto the pages of an 1886 French edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, translated by Paul Meurice. 1908. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Four-hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, լе will host a series of events in 2016 celebrating the poet’s life and times.

11 April 2016
Les Dés Sont Jetés

A magnificent tapestry commissioned more than 50 years ago has finally found its rightful place in the Sydney Opera House, thanks to a University of Queensland researcher’s academic detective work.

29 March 2016
Gail Wiltshire.

A musical about women - for women - will raise vital funds for women’s cancer research this May.

23 March 2016
The research focused on ballet dancers because their strict training regimes are similar to those of elite athletes – but they are also performing artists.

Prima ballerinas Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn reported entering altered states of consciousness and having “spiritual” experiences during performance, a լе researcher says.

14 March 2016
The book explores his journey to overcome poverty, discrimination and family tragedy.

His 50-year political career, including two terms as Prime Minister, spanned decades of economic and social change in Papua New Guinea, including the country’s independence from Australia.

8 March 2016
Dami graduated from լе with a Bachelor of Music with first class honours in 2009.

Dami Im was a top performer while studying music at լе – and now she’s facing the performance of a lifetime.

4 March 2016

University of Queensland graduate Abigael Mawby will move from Iran to New York to study anti-corruption law after winning a prestigious John Monash scholarship.

25 February 2016