The University of Queensland and The Flinders University of South Australia have joined forces to investigate ways to deliver better medical care to Australia's north.

31 October 1997

Library staff syndicate at the University of Queensland is $1million richer after a Gold Lotto win last month.

30 October 1997

A former metallurgist, who donated $190,000 to the University of Queensland in scholarships between 1986 and 1994, has bequeathed the University $387,200 to provide educational opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students.

30 October 1997

The University of Queensland's Centre for Laser Science in the Physics Department has entered a new era for controlling single atoms with laser light beams.

29 October 1997

A cure for the flu is expected to be on the market within two years following almost two decades of drug testing and research, according to Dr Fred de Looze, acting director of the University's General Practice Unit at Inala.

29 October 1997

The University's Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE) has been recognised as a centre of excellence, recently commissioned to undertake a United Nations-sponsored training project.

29 October 1997

The University has opened a 'new door' to its Romance Languages Department - becoming the first university in Australia to offer a new stream of cultural subjects conducted entirely in English, according to Department acting head Dr Keith Atkinson.

29 October 1997

It's not every day you see an international best-seller on the history of economics.

29 October 1997

The University of Queensland's Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) has won the national 1997 Australian Violence Prevention Award.

29 October 1997

Globalisation makes international competitiveness the only important benchmark for universities, according to the University of Queensland's incoming Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Paul Greenfield.

29 October 1997

The University has received the State's highest number of Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre first preference applications for places in 1998, going against the State trend for a declining number of applications.

29 October 1997

Major studies at the University of Queensland are highlighting the opportunities and the challenges for Australia in the burgeoning Chinese beef and cattle industry.

24 October 1997

When Chris Bundesen says the University of Queensland plans to take its continuing education programs more and more into the community, she has 15 years of success to support her intentions.

23 October 1997

More than 300 Australian school children will sing, dance and even rap their way through 'mind-bending problems' when the University of Queensland hosts the national final of the Tournament of Minds this weekend.

23 October 1997

Providing artificial shelter for the endangered bridled nailtail wallaby may be one key to increasing its numbers in the wild, according to a University of Queensland study.

23 October 1997

In the spirit of artistic and educational exchange, architecture graduate and artist Michael Barnett has donated one of his paintings to the University of Queensland in recognition of the benefit obtained from his studies in architecture.

21 October 1997

Fifty-four of the state's brightest science students exercised their minds at the recent Junior Physics Olympiad Training School - the first camp of its type to be held at the University of Queensland.

21 October 1997

One of Australia's most respected marine scientists, former University of Queensland reader Dr Robert Endean, was on Heron Island - the launching pad for much of his research - when he had a heart attack which led to his death on October 6. He was...

21 October 1997

Professor Tom Keightley Ewer - the Veterinary Science Faculty's first post-war dean - died on October 3, aged 86.

21 October 1997