The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland is a public research university in Brisbane, Australia and was established by an Act of the Queensland Parliament in 1909 as the state's first university.昆士兰大学是澳大利亚布里斯班的一所公立研究型大学，于 1909 年经昆士兰州议会法案创立，是该州的第一所大学。

It was officially founded on 16 April 1910 with the gazettal of its first Senate and began teaching in 1911 with eighty-three students.该校于 1910 年 4 月 16 日经首任校务委员会公告而正式创立，并于 1911 年以八十三名学生开始授课。

The university now educates more than 56,000 students across its St Lucia, Gatton and Herston campuses and counts two Nobel Laureates among its community.如今，该校在圣卢西亚、加顿与赫斯顿等校区培养学生超过 56,000 人，其社群中共有两位诺贝尔奖得主。

History

• The University of Queensland was established through an Act of the Queensland Parliament passed in 1909 to create the first university in the state.昆士兰大学由昆士兰州议会于 1909 年通过的法案创立，成为该州的第一所大学。
• On 16 April 1910 the appointments to the first UQ Senate were gazetted, marking the university's official foundation.1910 年 4 月 16 日，昆士兰大学首任校务委员会的任命正式公告，标志着该校的正式成立。
• Teaching began in 1911 in the Old Government House in George Street, Brisbane, with three faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering.1911 年，该校在布里斯班乔治街的旧政府大楼开课，设有文学、理学与工学三个学部。
• In its first year the university enrolled eighty-three students, of whom sixty were men and twenty-three were women.建校第一年，该校招收了八十三名学生，其中男生六十人、女生二十三人。
• In 1922 the university secured an additional site in Victoria Park that later accommodated the Medical School.1922 年，该校获得了维多利亚公园的附加用地，后来用于设立医学院。
• In 1926 Dr James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne provided funds to buy the St Lucia site that is now the main campus.1926 年，詹姆斯·奥尼尔·梅恩博士与其妹玛丽·埃米莉亚·梅恩出资购置了如今的圣卢西亚主校区用地。
• Construction on the St Lucia site began in 1937 and the first building, later named the Forgan Smith Building, was completed in 1939.圣卢西亚校区的建设始于 1937 年，其首座建筑后来命名为福根·史密斯楼，于 1939 年竣工。
• During the Second World War the St Lucia campus served as the advanced headquarters for the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific.第二次世界大战期间，圣卢西亚校区曾作为盟军西南太平洋地面部队的前进司令部。
• In 1990 the university merged with the Queensland Agricultural College at Gatton, which had enrolled its first students in 1897.1990 年，该校与位于加顿的昆士兰农学院合并，后者早在 1897 年便已开始招收学生。
• In 1999 the university opened a major campus at Ipswich on a former mental health facility site before transferring it to another university in 2015.1999 年，该校在伊普斯威奇一处原精神健康机构旧址开设重要校区，后于 2015 年转交另一所大学。
• In 2010 the Herston campus opened as the university's major clinical health and research teaching location in Brisbane.2010 年，赫斯顿校区作为该校在布里斯班主要的临床健康与研究教学基地正式开放。
• In 2024 the Dutton Park campus became the university's fourth campus within the growing biotechnology precinct of southern Brisbane.2024 年，达顿公园校区成为该校的第四个校区，坐落于布里斯班南部不断发展的生物技术园区。
• The university is one of the six sandstone universities, the historic public universities founded in the Australian colonial and early federal era.该校是澳大利亚六所砂岩学府之一，这些是在殖民与联邦早期创立的历史性公立大学。
• Queensland's first professors were appointed in the early 1910s as the institution built its curriculum from the three original faculties of arts, science and engineering, teaching in the Old Government House in George Street.该校的首批教授于 1910 年代初获任，学校从文学、理学与工学三个创办学部出发构建课程体系，最初在乔治街的旧政府大楼授课。
• The Forgan Smith Building, with its Great Court cloister, became the architectural heart of the St Lucia campus after 1939 and remains its most recognisable landmark.福根·史密斯楼及其大庭院回廊，自 1939 年后成为圣卢西亚校区的建筑核心，至今仍是其最具辨识度的地标。
• After the Second World War the university expanded rapidly, driven by returning servicemen and women, the growth of Australian higher education and the development of the St Lucia campus.第二次世界大战后，在归国军人、澳大利亚高等教育的发展以及圣卢西亚校区建设的推动下，该校迅速扩张。
• The university marked its centenary in 2010, a hundred years after the 1910 gazettal of its founding Senate, with a year of ceremonies and public events.2010 年，该校迎来百年校庆，距 1910 年创校校务委员会公告正好一个世纪，全年举办了庆典与公众活动。
• The Great Court at St Lucia is renowned for its carved sandstone reliefs depicting figures from science, art, exploration and history, added during the 1930s and 1940s.圣卢西亚校区的大庭院以雕刻砂岩浮雕闻名，其上刻画了科学、艺术、探险与历史中的人物，多镌刻于 1930 至 1940 年代。
• UQ has preserved the heritage of the former Queensland Agricultural College, founded at Gatton in 1897, as part of its rural campus identity and agricultural research mission.昆士兰大学保存了 1897 年创立于加顿的前昆士兰农学院的历史遗产，作为其乡村校区特色与农业研究使命的一部分。
• Over more than a century the university has grown from a small city institution with eighty-three students into a major research university of global standing with more than 57,000 students.一个多世纪以来，该校从仅有八十三名学生的小型城市学府，成长为拥有逾 57,000 名学生的全球一流研究型大学。
• The University of Queensland was Australia's fifth university and is one of the country's six sandstone universities, the institutions established in the colonial and early federal era before the First World War.昆士兰大学是澳大利亚第五所大学，也是该国六所砂岩学府之一，这些学府均创立于第一次世界大战之前的殖民与联邦早期。
• The Mayne Medical School, which houses the Faculty of Medicine at Herston, is named for the Mayne family, whose 1926 donation secured the St Lucia site of the main campus.位于赫斯顿、容纳医学部的梅恩医学院，得名于 1926 年捐款购得圣卢西亚主校区用地的梅恩家族。

Academics

• The University of Queensland comprises six faculties, including the faculties of Business, Economics and Law, Engineering and Health and Behavioural Sciences.昆士兰大学由六个学部组成，包括商学、经济学与法学学部，工学学部以及健康与行为科学学部等。
• It enrolled more than 56,000 students in 2021, of whom about 34,284 were undergraduates and 21,707 were postgraduates.2021 年，该校在校学生超过 56,000 人，其中本科生约 34,284 人、研究生约 21,707 人。
• The university employed 6,917 staff in 2021 and supports a large doctoral community, the biggest in Australia by candidate numbers, with research strengths across the sciences and humanities.2021 年，该校聘有 6,917 名员工，并拥有澳大利亚规模最大的博士生群体，在自然科学与人文学科均有研究优势。
• The university's two Nobel laureates are Peter Doherty, awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the economist John Harsanyi, who shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.该校的两位诺贝尔奖得主是获 1996 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的彼得·多赫蒂，以及共获 1994 年诺贝尔经济学纪念奖的经济学家约翰·海萨尼。
• The university is a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.该校是八校联盟、Universitas 21 与环太平洋大学联盟的成员。
• It has produced one hundred and seventeen Rhodes Scholars and more than one hundred Olympic medallists among its alumni.该校校友中产生了 117 位罗德学者，以及一百余位奥林匹克奖牌获得者。
• The Faculty of Medicine at Herston works closely with the adjoining hospitals of the Queensland health system.位于赫斯顿的医学学部，与昆士兰医疗体系下的相邻医院紧密协作。
• The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the Queensland Brain Institute are among its flagship research institutes.澳大利亚生物工程与纳米科技研究所、分子生物科学研究所与昆士兰脑研究所，是其旗舰级的研究机构。
• The university's research income runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars, supporting strength in health, agriculture and environment.该校的研究收入达数亿澳元量级，支撑其在健康、农业与环境领域的优势。
• The UQ Gatton campus specialises in agriculture, veterinary science and the environmental sciences with farms and field stations.昆士兰大学加顿校区专攻农业、兽医学与环境科学，并设有农场与野外站。
• The library system includes the Duhig Tower at St Lucia and specialised medical and agricultural collections.该校的图书馆系统包括圣卢西亚的杜希格塔楼，以及专门的医学与农学馆藏。
• The university offers study abroad and exchange with hundreds of partner institutions across more than forty countries, and welcomes a large cohort of international students each year.该校与四十多个国家的数百所伙伴院校开展海外学习与交换项目，每年还接纳大批国际学生。
• Business, engineering, life sciences, environmental science, mining and sports-related disciplines are consistently identified among its strongest research areas.商学、工程、生命科学、环境科学、采矿以及与体育相关的学科，一直被认定为该校最强劲的研究领域。
• The university's teaching hospitals and clinical schools anchor its health sciences education across south east Queensland.该校的教学医院与临床学院，在昆士兰东南部支撑着其健康科学教育。
• UQ maintains a strong record in translational research, moving discoveries from the laboratory into clinical and commercial use through institutes such as the Translational Research Institute.昆士兰大学在转化研究方面成绩卓著，依托转化研究所等机构，将实验室的发现推向临床与商业应用。
• UQ is organised into six faculties covering business, economics and law, engineering, architecture and information technology, health and behavioural sciences, humanities and social sciences, medicine, and science.昆士兰大学由六个学部组成，涵盖商学、经济学与法学，工程、建筑与信息技术，健康与行为科学，人文与社会科学，医学，以及理学等领域。
• Research is conducted through institutes such as the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the Queensland Brain Institute, the Sustainable Minerals Institute, the Diamantina Institute and the Translational Research Institute.其研究通过分子生物科学研究所、昆士兰脑研究所、可持续矿业研究所、迪亚曼蒂纳研究所以及转化研究所等机构开展。
• UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and its Boeing Research and Technology Australia Centre work on biotechnology, advanced materials and aerospace applications.昆士兰大学的澳大利亚生物工程与纳米技术研究所及其波音研究与技术澳大利亚中心，从事生物技术、先进材料与航空航天应用研究。
• The university operates the UQ-Ochsner Clinical School in Louisiana, United States, and maintains a North America office in Washington, giving its medical students clinical training abroad.该校在美国路易斯安那州运营 UQ-奥克斯纳临床学院，并在华盛顿设有北美办事处，为其医学生提供海外临床训练。
• In 2023 UQ enrolled about 57,000 students, including roughly 28,500 undergraduates, and employed nearly 3,000 full-time academic staff.2023 年，昆士兰大学在校学生约 57,000 人，其中本科生约 28,500 人，并聘有近 3,000 名全职学术人员。
• UQ reported an endowment of about 432 million Australian dollars and an operating budget of about 2.44 billion Australian dollars in 2023, funding research across health, agriculture and engineering.2023 年，昆士兰大学公布的捐赠基金约为 4.32 亿澳元，运营预算约为 24.4 亿澳元，用于资助健康、农业与工程等领域的研究。

Campus

• The St Lucia campus is the main campus, set on a bend of the Brisbane River about seven kilometres south west of the city centre, and covers roughly 114 hectares of riverside land.圣卢西亚校区是主校区，坐落于布里斯班河的一处河曲之上，距市中心西南约七公里，占地约 114 公顷的河畔土地。
• The Gatton campus west of Brisbane is the university's rural and agricultural campus, with farms, greenhouses, laboratories, a veterinary teaching hospital and a small airport.位于布里斯班以西的加顿校区，是该校的乡村与农业校区，设有农场、温室、实验室、兽医教学医院与一座小型机场。
• The Herston campus in inner Brisbane is the clinical campus adjacent to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.位于布里斯班内城的赫斯顿校区是临床校区，毗邻皇家布里斯班妇女医院。
• The Dutton Park campus, opened in 2024, sits within Brisbane's southern biotechnology and translational research precinct and houses pharmacy, health and biomedical teaching.2024 年开放的达顿公园校区，位于布里斯班南部的生物技术与转化研究园区之内，设有药学、健康与生物医学教学设施。
• The Great Court at St Lucia is a cloistered quadrangle of sandstone buildings adorned with carved reliefs and the Forgan Smith Building.圣卢西亚校区的大庭院是一处砂岩建筑的回廊式四方院，饰以雕刻浮雕，并有福根·史密斯楼。
• The main campus coordinates are approximately 27.46794 degrees south and 153.02809 degrees east, at St Lucia in Brisbane.主校区坐标约为南纬 27.46794 度、东经 153.02809 度，位于布里斯班的圣卢西亚。
• The St Lucia campus provides student residences, the UQ Art Museum and the Anthropology Museum within a leafy riverside setting beside the Brisbane River.圣卢西亚校区在布里斯班河畔绿树成荫的环境中，设有学生宿舍、昆士兰大学艺术博物馆与人类学博物馆。
• The university also operates research stations and field sites across Queensland, including marine and environmental observatories.该校还在昆士兰州各地运营研究站与野外基地，包括海洋与环境观测站。
• The St Lucia campus is served by residential colleges including Emmanuel College, St John's College, King's College, St Leo's College and the Women's College, several of them dating from the 1910s and 1920s.圣卢西亚校区的住宿学院包括伊曼纽尔学院、圣约翰学院、国王学院、圣利奥学院与女子学院等，其中数所可追溯至 1910 至 1920 年代。
• UQ's facilities extend beyond the main campuses to marine and environmental research stations on Heron Island and Stradbroke Island, and to farms and field sites across Queensland.昆士兰大学的设施除主要校区外，还延伸至赫伦岛与斯特拉德布鲁克岛上的海洋与环境研究站，以及遍布昆士兰各地的农场与野外基地。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Queensland placed 40th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，昆士兰大学位列全球第 40 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed the university 73rd in the world in a tied band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将昆士兰大学列为全球第 73 位（并列）。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 the university was placed 73rd in the world.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位居全球第 73 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 placed UQ 42nd in the world.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将昆士兰大学列为全球第 42 位。
• Two Nobel laureates are affiliated with the university, Peter Doherty in physiology or medicine and John Harsanyi in economic sciences, reflecting its strength in the life sciences and economics.与该校相关的两位诺贝尔奖得主分别是生理学或医学领域的彼得·多赫蒂与经济学领域的约翰·海萨尼，体现了其在生命科学与经济学上的实力。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 276,945 works to the university with 29,090,957 citations, reflecting strong research output.OpenAlex 数据库为昆士兰大学收录 276,945 篇学术成果，被引 29,090,957 次，研究产出可观。
• The university is a member of the Group of Eight, the coalition of Australia's leading research intensive universities.该校是八校联盟的成员，该联盟由澳大利亚领先的研究密集型大学组成。
• UQ has been ranked first in the world by Times Higher Education for its contribution to several Sustainable Development Goals, including its work on clean water and life below water.在泰晤士高等教育对若干可持续发展目标贡献的评估中，昆士兰大学曾位列世界第一，其中包括其在清洁水源与水下生物方面的工作。
• Its disciplines of mining engineering, sports science, agriculture, environmental science and veterinary science are regularly placed among the world's best in the QS subject rankings.在 QS 学科排名中，该校的采矿工程、运动科学、农业、环境科学与兽医学等学科常年位居世界最佳之列。
• UQ is consistently ranked among the world's top fifty universities and is one of Australia's leading research-intensive institutions, with recognised strengths in health, agriculture, the environment and engineering.昆士兰大学常年位居世界前五十，是澳大利亚顶尖的研究密集型学府之一，在健康、农业、环境与工程领域实力突出。

Student life

• The motto of the university is Scientia ac Labore, a Latin phrase meaning through knowledge and hard work, adopted at its foundation in 1909.该校校训为拉丁文「Scientia ac Labore」，意为「倚靠学识与勤勉」，自 1909 年创校时即予采用。
• The student union and more than two hundred clubs support sport, music, culture, media and volunteering across the St Lucia, Gatton and Herston campuses.学生会与两百多个社团，在圣卢西亚、加顿与赫斯顿等校区支持体育、音乐、文化、媒体与志愿服务。
• The St Lucia campus hosts annual orientation festivals, the UQ Union markets and open-air cinema nights that bring together the whole student community.圣卢西亚校区每年举办迎新节、昆士兰大学学生会集市与露天电影之夜，将整个学生社群凝聚在一起。
• Inter-college sport, the residential colleges and the traditional Great Court relay foster a strong collegiate culture at the St Lucia campus.学院间的体育竞赛、住宿学院以及传统的大庭院接力跑，在圣卢西亚校区培育了浓厚的学院文化。
• The Great Court running relay is a cherished tradition in which students run the perimeter of the sandstone quadrangle.大庭院接力跑是一项备受珍视的传统，学生们环绕砂岩四方院的周界奔跑。
• International students form a large and diverse community, with strong representation from the Asia Pacific region including China, Singapore, Malaysia and India.国际学生构成庞大而多元的群体，其中以来自包括中国、新加坡、马来西亚与印度在内的亚太地区者居多。
• The UQ Art Museum and the Anthropology Museum offer exhibitions and events open to students and the public.昆士兰大学艺术博物馆与人类学博物馆提供面向学生与公众的展览与活动。
• Brisbane's subtropical climate, river culture and proximity to the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast enrich student life well beyond the boundaries of the campus.布里斯班亚热带的气候、河流文化以及毗邻阳光海岸与黄金海岸的区位，极大丰富了超出校园边界的学生生活。

Notable people

• Dr James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne donated the funds in 1926 that secured the St Lucia site of the main campus.詹姆斯·奥尼尔·梅恩博士与其妹玛丽·埃米莉亚·梅恩于 1926 年捐款，购得主校区的圣卢西亚用地。
• Peter Doherty, a UQ alumnus and researcher, was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for immunity research.昆士兰大学校友兼研究者彼得·多赫蒂，因免疫学研究获 1996 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
• John Harsanyi, who was a lecturer in economics at UQ from 1954 to 1956, shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory.1954 至 1956 年在昆士兰大学担任经济学讲师的约翰·海萨尼，因博弈论研究共获 1994 年诺贝尔经济学纪念奖。
• Kevin Rudd, a UQ alumnus, served as the twenty-sixth Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again briefly in 2013.昆士兰大学校友陆克文于 2007 至 2010 年及 2013 年短暂再度出任澳大利亚第二十六任总理。
• Dame Quentin Bryce, a UQ alumna, served as the first female Governor-General of Australia from 2008 to 2014.昆士兰大学校友昆廷·布赖斯女爵士于 2008 至 2014 年出任澳大利亚首位女性总督。
• Ian Frazer, a UQ professor, co-developed the cervical cancer vaccine with the late Jian Zhou, a virologist born in China.昆士兰大学教授伊恩·弗雷泽与已故的病毒学家周健共同研发了宫颈癌疫苗，周健出生于中国。
• Jian Zhou, the Chinese-born virologist who co-developed the HPV vaccine at UQ, is remembered as a pioneering China-related scholar.出生于中国的病毒学家周健在昆士兰大学共同研发了 HPV 疫苗，是被铭记的华裔先驱学者。
• Geoffrey Rush, a UQ alumnus, is an Academy Award winning actor recognised for his stage and screen performances.昆士兰大学校友杰弗里·拉什是奥斯卡奖得主，以舞台与银幕表演闻名。
• Martin Green, a UQ alumnus known as the father of solar photovoltaics, is a leading figure in renewable energy research.昆士兰大学校友马丁·格林被誉为太阳能光伏之父，是可再生能源研究领域的领军人物。
• Andrew Liveris, a UQ chemical engineering graduate, served as chairman and chief executive of the Dow Chemical Company and later of DowDuPont.昆士兰大学化学工程毕业生安德鲁·利伟诚，曾任陶氏化学公司以及后来的陶氏杜邦的董事长兼首席执行官。
• Bill Hayden, an alumnus, served as Governor-General of Australia and earlier as federal Leader of the Opposition and Treasurer of Australia.校友比尔·海登曾任澳大利亚总督，此前还担任过联邦反对党领袖与澳大利亚财政部长。