Lord Robert Winston, well-known British broadcaster and presenter of documentaries The Human Body, The Secret Life of Twins, Making Babies and, most recently, Superhuman, will present the E.S. Meyers Memorial Lecture on November 3, 2000 in Mayne...

27 October 2000

A notable earthquake of approximate magnitude (Richter) 4 was recorded at The University of Qld seismograph station Brisbane, on Wednesday 25/10/00 at 03:43 PM (EST ).

27 October 2000

A $600,000 Australian and U.S. research project has pioneered ground-breaking techniques to map Australian landscapes through a veil of heavy cloud and smoke.

26 October 2000

School groups and members of the public are invited to visit UQ Ipswich late this month and early next month to see a free display of entries by Queensland students in the 2000 Queensland Science Contest.

26 October 2000

A new radar system will increase safety in open-cut coal mines by detecting possible locations of rock failure. The system can detect rock movements as small as one millimetre that are often precursors to wall collapse.

25 October 2000

Young University of Queensland scientist Dr Peter Cassidy has invested six years of his life in building frameworks for new drugs.

25 October 2000

Equipment developed by industry and evaluated by University of Queensland researchers may mean safer, more accurate monitoring of the health of a fetus during the birth process.

24 October 2000

One of Australia's major aerospace companies, Boeing Australia Limited has donated $5000 for scholarships in Behavioural Studies at UQ Ipswich.

24 October 2000

Recent work by University of Queensland researchers shows that the Great Barrier Reef may be dead within 50 to 100 years, having a devastating impact on marine life and even coastal communities.

23 October 2000

Trying to get your pet dog to take a monthly heartworm tablet will become a battle of the past due to new drug delivery systems. The system has been developed by a US company with the assistance of Dr Rick Atwell at The University of Queensland...

23 October 2000

A new University of Queensland study has confirmed the importance of physiotherapy for optimising physical recovery after breast cancer surgery.

23 October 2000

University of Queensland Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Paul Greenfield has welcomed today's announcement of a further $9 million Federal Government funding to the Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology.

23 October 2000

A breakthrough by University of Queensland and US researchers has brought the world a "huge step" closer to the next generation in computation - quantum computers.

22 October 2000

The perfume of fruit flies could hold the key to one of the big questions of evolution - how do new species arise?

20 October 2000

The Queensland racing industry is in need of dramatic change to regain prosperity and the traditional structure of racing must be seriously questioned, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

20 October 2000

The University of Queensland has received one of the most substantial art bequests in its 90-year history.

19 October 2000

The University of Queensland's stunning new $2.6 million world class marine research station on North Stradbroke Island will hold its first public open day on October 29.

18 October 2000

A University of Queensland academic has written what is believed to be the first book in English examining the Japanese media's representation of male homosexuality.

16 October 2000

The State's leading postgraduate institution, The University of Queensland, is holding a postgraduate evening on Monday October 16.

12 October 2000

Experts on the Solomon Islands are holding a conference in Brisbane this month to examine the causes of recent ethnic unrest on the Pacific islands and identify ways to sustain the peace process.

12 October 2000