Australia, like the rest of the developed world, is in the grip of 'Dollar Darwinism'-survival of the most economically efficient without regard for the social consequences, according to a University of Queensland study.

25 September 2001

Leading Australian nanotechnology researcher Professor Max Lu of The University of Queensland was honoured with a prestigious award at an international conference in Melbourne today.

25 September 2001

The University of Queensland has topped the nation in total projected funding for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage-Projects scheme for 2002.

25 September 2001

UQ Ipswich information environments students have won two of eight Apple University Consortium (AUC) seeding grants awarded nationally.

24 September 2001

The University of Queensland has attracted the largest Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant for a project investigating potential new drug therapies derived from the venom of marine snails.

24 September 2001

University of Queensland students could enhance their career prospects by doing part of their study in Asia, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science Professor Roger Swift said today

21 September 2001

A University of Queensland seminar today, Thursday, September 20 at the St Lucia campus will explore the topic: Is there a Global Feminism?

20 September 2001

University of Queensland undergraduates will stage their own Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on Thursday, September 20.

18 September 2001

Leading international scholars will attend Australia's first conference on the Libertine Enlightenment to be held at The University of Queensland on September 21 and 22.

18 September 2001

A British scramjet engine belonging to QinetiQ (formerly the bulk of the MOD's Defence Evaluation & Research Agency) is to be tested during the "HyShot" flight tests in the Australian desert in October.

17 September 2001

The recorded debut of Buddy the 'mew-on-cue' Siamese cat is proving a hit for cancer patients.

14 September 2001

Belonging to an organisation may prevent premature death and add quality to life, according to visiting Harvard Professor for Public Policy Robert Putnam

14 September 2001

A scientist working on ways of putting a "prawn into space" is among nine winners of the 2001 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards, announced at a ceremony at Customs House in Brisbane last night.

13 September 2001

Participants are needed for a University of Queensland study of communication between married and dating couples.

13 September 2001

Growing up in the shadows of a large aluminium smelter in central Norway has had a profound effect on the research interests and achievements of Dr Arne Dahle.

12 September 2001

Dr Jian-xin Zhao has developed a ground-breaking geological dating technique, allowing new insights into human origins and the history of climate change.

12 September 2001

Scientists have long explored the possibilities of technology but most of the work has never really pushed nature to its limits.

12 September 2001

How Australian theatre spaces are shaped, understood and situated in historical, cultural and political contexts will be examined by Dr Joanne Tompkins.

12 September 2001

Dr Robyn Gillies' studies of small-group learning in school classrooms could bring new twists to an old technique.

12 September 2001

Dr Justin Marshall is studying how animals such as reef fish, parrots such as budgerigars, and even poison arrow frogs use colour for communication.

12 September 2001