Adrian Ward talks to senior industry and government representatives about CarbonGameTM, a real-time simulation designed to engage and inform industry, government and student participants on how emissions trading schemes work, and importantly, how companies go about managing thier emissions under such policies.

As Shanghai commenced its emissions trading scheme this week, senior industry and government representatives were given a crash course in emissions trading by The University of Queensland.

29 November 2013
Centre Director Professor Peter Sly

The University of Queensland will launch its first World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre today with a WHO flag-raising ceremony.

29 November 2013
 Jimmy Tran and Kianoosh Soltani-Naveh are fellow researchers taking part in UQ's Summer Research program.

University of Queensland students are taking advantage of the summer break to focus on innovative research such as using saliva to beat heart disease and simulating hypersonic flights of 8600 km an hour with Scramjets.

29 November 2013

A $16 million research centre combining education, psychology and neuroscience to improve learning outcomes was launched at the University of Queensland this week. The Science of Learning Research Centre is an Australian Research Council...

29 November 2013
Cartoon, The Magic Glasses, promotes good hygiene behaviour to children in rural China.

A cartoon that has helped halve parasitic worm infection rates among rural Chinese children has earned a University of Queensland (UQ) researcher a prestigious award.

28 November 2013

When University of Queensland student Richelle Joyce Figueroa realised the disastrous impact Typhoon Haiyan had created in her home country of the Philippines, she thought about how she could help those in need.

27 November 2013

Post-natal care is failing to meet the needs of Queensland women and their families. And mothers who give birth in private hospitals report being worse off than their public hospital counterparts.

27 November 2013

University of Queensland researchers hope to devise new measures and approaches to the impact of animal infections on humans, thanks to a US$100,000 grant through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill and Melinda Gates...

26 November 2013
Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellow Professor Peter Holbrook.

The University of Queensland’s Professor Peter Holbrook is among 28 new Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

25 November 2013
University of Queensland Law graduate Christopher Ash is Oxford-bound

University of Queensland Law graduate Christopher Ash has won the prestigious 2013 Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law, giving him a life-changing opportunity to study at the University of Oxford in the UK.

25 November 2013

A collective effort by a group of UQ students to write a book of short, awkward love stories is quickly attracting international attention.

25 November 2013
Joshua Soderholm: Chasing destructive storms.

Joshua Soderholm loves a good thunder storm. It means he can head into the field and collect data for a University of Queensland research project that could lead to more accurate warnings of South East Queensland’s unpredictable and destructive...

25 November 2013
The unique flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi)

The effects of climate change in the Galápagos Islands are posing a severe threat to one of the world’s rarest seabirds, a decade-long historical study led by a University of Queensland researcher has revealed.

22 November 2013

Exciting new research collaborations in areas ranging from the arts to zoology are under way between The University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia.

22 November 2013

University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Gilbert Price has been named the 2013 Queensland Tall Poppy of the Year.

21 November 2013

University of Queensland School of Economics graduate and Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Gray is the new Queensland Under Treasurer.

21 November 2013
The newly discovered giant clam. Photo: E. A. Treml.

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a vivid new species of giant clam on reefs in the Solomon Islands and at Ningaloo in Western Australia.

21 November 2013

Australia’s power system needs a combination of a carbon price supported by direct action incentives aimed at businesses if it is to withstand future supply and price shocks.

21 November 2013
 Ortelia Virtual Set Designer modelling The Queensland Theatre Company’s Bille Browne Studio. The software enables users to design a set with full theatre lighting.

Digital technology and the arts sector will come to the fore at the commercial launch of two new products from Ortelia on 21 November.

20 November 2013
Budding film-makers and actors at the St Lucia Campus Kindergarten.

Movie stars and film-makers as young as three are heading for the big screen, with their very own film festival at The University of Queensland.

20 November 2013