Seventeen-year-old Mount Isa Kalkadungu didjeridu artist William Barton often performs with heavy rock bands, but he will do a gig with a difference on Sunday, October 11.

7 October 1998

A giant burrowing cockroach, a musky rat-kangaroo and a prehistoric Pterosaur are among the latest additions to the carved decorations around the Great Court at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

7 October 1998

University of Queensland Classics and Ancient History postgraduates are raising money to establish an annual prize in memory of tutor and postgraduate Carole Chandler, who died in July after a two-year battle with cancer.

7 October 1998

Imagine a political system in which elections, fanatical interest groups and parliamentary slanging matches are a thing of the past.

6 October 1998

Motorists should not be surprised to see large elephants lumbering through Brisbane streets in the early dawn on Sunday, October 11.

6 October 1998

Highly sensitive cabling once used to bug rooms has been modified to spy on the eating habits of sheep, cows and goats instead.

6 October 1998

Australian bushfood such as lemon myrtle, new crops such as industrial hemp and enterprises such as ostriches are some of the new rural industries currently enticing Australian farmers with promises of quick cash.

6 October 1998

University of Queensland researchers are anxious to track about 400 Australian lawyers, doctors and engineers who may have moved address so they can bring one of the world's longest-running research projects to a close

2 October 1998

The University of Queensland has stepped up its Year 2000 project with the establishment last month of a co-ordinator role with a University-wide focus.

2 October 1998

There's room for improvement in Australian hotels when it comes to the needs of mature travellers, according to a University of Queensland Gatton College study.

2 October 1998

University of Queensland Gatton College researchers have developed a prototype of an early warning device for heat load among cattle.

1 October 1998

Plant and animal residues on ancient tools have revealed facts about the way our ape-like ancestors lived two million years ago.

30 September 1998

A new book, due out late next year, aims to fill a gap in performance theory by looking at women's intercultural theatre.

25 September 1998

It will be chic to shake or be a sheikh at a free International Fair on Sunday October 11, jointly staged by the University of Queensland and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and featuring the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

25 September 1998

Assassin bugs, biting midges, parasitic wasps and mosquitoes are some of the insects to be hotly discussed at the first of two entomological conferences in Brisbane this month.

24 September 1998

An exclusive agreement covering certain undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as research, staff development and sporting links has been forged between the University of Queensland (UQ) and a leading educational institute in Malaysia.

23 September 1998

Go somewhere different this summer - to the University of Queensland Summer Program, which offers something for everyone, regardless of tertiary or secondary educational background.

23 September 1998

The bearded dragon is one of the most common lizards along Australia's eastern coastal region ? and this is exactly what makes it a rarity in the eyes of University of Queensland researcher Andrew Amey.

23 September 1998

Some Australian males are obsessed by sex and a University of Queensland researcher has spent a couple of years trying to find out why.

21 September 1998

Field work by University of Queensland marine research staff and students will be a breeze with the acquisition of a new research vessel in October.

21 September 1998