New, more efficient and durable materials for use in solar energy applications is the focus of Dr Chenghua Sun from UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

28 September 2010
UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners.

Eleven young University of Queensland researchers have been honoured at the 2010 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

22 September 2010

UQ researchers are uncovering the strategies major supermarket chains use to convince customers to trust where their food comes from.

20 September 2010
Professor Michael Bromley with Rebecca Brown, Margaret Lawson and Lily Howe

Two UQ public relations students have been awarded the inaugural Cole Lawson bursaries.

17 September 2010

Overweight Australian adolescents aged 14 to 17 years are needed for a University of Queensland and Wesley Research Institute study that aims to achieve more accurate body measurement for this group.

17 September 2010

The Boxing Day Tsunami caused 82 deaths and displaced more than 15,000 people in the island nation of the Maldives.

17 September 2010

Researchers visiting Heron Island Research Station can now enjoy the modern comforts of a new accommodation complex, located only five metres from the beach.

17 September 2010

UQ Science has recently commissioned three new boats to expand its research and teaching in aquatic and marine science.

17 September 2010

According to a 2010 national study funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Australia’s community and health services are among the fastest growing sectors of employment in the nation.

15 September 2010

A new cancer vaccine concept developed by researchers at The University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute has been licensed to US-based developer of RNAi (ribonucleic acid interference) therapeutics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., through...

15 September 2010

Computational neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute have done the sums – and found that a mathematical model could help improve the understanding of developmental disorders.

15 September 2010
UQ Business School graduate Kalan Douglas

For UQ Business School graduate Kalan Douglas, degrees in business and economics have paved a career path spanning two continents.

13 September 2010

A practical and inspirational diary for people with Parkinson’s Disease will not only support patients and their carers, it will help University of Queensland researchers search for a cure.

10 September 2010

Naturally functional foods that fight disease…environmentally friendly food packaging…new probiotic juices…and natural antimicrobial treatments to keep food fresh for longer.

9 September 2010

Communication, comprehension and engagement proved to be the winning criteria for the judging of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition which last week saw UQ postgraduate student Melody De Laat win a Faculty final at the Gatton Campus.

8 September 2010

A U.S. science graduate who has been awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study for a year at The University of Queensland hopes to advance understanding of the causes of human diseases.

3 September 2010

The mid year break wasn’t a holiday for all University of Queensland students with a group of keen, wildlife and environmental management enthusiasts heading to South America to see what they could find in the depths of the Amazon.

3 September 2010
Violet Kim

Violet Kim is tasting success in South Korea thanks to lessons learned in Australia.

3 September 2010

UQ Business School students have proved that business can cross cultural and even geographical lines.

2 September 2010

Making assumptions about culture based on existing research that scores countries according to various dimensions may be a flawed process, according to two academics from The University of Queensland Business School.

2 September 2010