The University of Queensland has improved its share of the Australian Postgraduate Awards (APAs) with stipends announced in the 1999 round.

3 December 1998

Internationally-renowned biologist Emeritus Professor John Kerr AO, computer software innovator David Merson, businessman Keith McDonald OBE, photographer and performer William Yang and widely-respected plant physiologist Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser...

2 December 1998

The University of Queensland has attracted eight new fellowships in the 1999 Australian Research Council (ARC) fellowships round, the fifth-highest number of fellowships funded nationally.

2 December 1998

The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the second highest number of new grant allocations nationally for 1999 from the National Health and Medical Research...

1 December 1998

The University of Queensland is the top university in the nation when it comes to getting funds to collaborate on research projects with industry and governments.

1 December 1998

Professor Richard Hays from Townsville has been appointed as the head of the North Queensland Clinical School of the University of Queensland's Graduate School of Medicine.

1 December 1998

A waste fermentation plant at the University of Queensland's Gatton College, 80km west of Brisbane, presents a classic win/win situation, according to one of those primarily responsible for the project.

25 November 1998

The University of Queensland has become more livable for people in the past 25 years, according to retired University Architect, Planner and Building Surveyor Greg Berkman.

25 November 1998

The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.

23 November 1998

A University of Queensland project harnessing methane from solid waste stands to revolutionise Australia's future rubbish management.

22 November 1998

Researchers at the Queensland Centre for Schizophrenia Research (QCSR) at Wolston Park Hospital have been awarded a prestigious Stanley International Research Centre grant - the first to any research group in the Southern Hemisphere.

20 November 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, the University of Queensland, this year has increased its total international student enrolments by 11 percent compared to 1997.

20 November 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, University of Queensland, will enter Monday night's announcements and presentations of the 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching as the nation's best represented university.

18 November 1998

UQ Ipswich has begun the countdown to Orientation Week commencing Monday, February 15, according to campus manager Warren Kerswill.

17 November 1998

Anthropologist Garrick Hitchcock's links with a remote village in the swampy lowlands of south-western Papua New Guinea (PNG) are likely to last much longer than his PhD research.

17 November 1998

An animation program developed at the University of Queensland can quickly and cheaply check the accuracy of the mathematical design of computer software for critical systems such as air traffic control and blood bank stock monitoring.

17 November 1998

Planning is advanced for the second stage of development of the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus, to follow the opening of the $17 million first stage for students in February 1999.

16 November 1998

Children's ideas of bodily attractiveness develop between the school years of grade five and grade eight, according to a University of Queensland study.

16 November 1998

Contracts worth $2.5 million have been signed for state-of-the-art information technology equipment for the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus opening in February 1999.

16 November 1998

A University of Queensland student's extraction of DNA from human bones submerged in the sea for more than 200 years is believed to be a world-first.

13 November 1998