A method to image human joints in motion, and improving students’ reading achievements in rural and mining communities are among UQ projects supported in round two of the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme announced today.

23 June 2010

An interdisciplinary research team at The University of Queensland has been awarded a third grant from the US based MacArthur Foundation to continue a conservation project in Solomon Islands for a further three years.

21 June 2010

The University of Queensland is part of a $4 million research partnership to develop evidence to underpin policies aimed at reducing the amount of homeless people in Australia.

21 June 2010
Students Jocelyn Farebrothere, Joel Wright and Tess Millerick participate in group work with lecturer Dr Katelyn Barney

By setting group work and encouraging deep thinking, UQ’s Dr Liz Mackinlay and Dr Katelyn Barney hope to implement reconciliation in a practical way.

28 May 2010

Nine UQ researchers will travel the world building research links and bringing that knowledge back to Queensland thanks to funding from the Queensland Government.

19 May 2010

The University of Queensland has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

11 May 2010

The Queensland Government has worked with UQ to secure a world-first green fuel initiative which could slash greenhouse gas emissions by fuelling planes with algae.

5 May 2010

ANZAC Day is a proud and solemn occasion for many Australians, but the event shouldn’t be taken out of context.

22 April 2010

The University of Queensland will use a State Government investment in solar energy to help install Australia’s largest and most powerful array of photovoltaic panels.

15 April 2010

UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.

9 April 2010
Dr Kathy Townsend prepares to release a sea turtle

How marine rubbish is affecting sea turtles will be dinner conversation in Manhattan on April 13, with UQ’s Dr Kathy Townsend leading the discussion.

1 April 2010

The University of Queensland will lead a $14 million international consortium to develop scramjet-based access-to-space systems, flying an autonomous scramjet vehicle at eight times the speed of sound – Mach 8, or 8600 km/h.

27 February 2010

Back and neck pain, knee osteoarthritis, and sports and occupational injuries such as tennis elbow will be targeted under a new National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant awarded to a University of Queensland research team toda

23 February 2010

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded more than $8.6million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding announced today.

28 January 2010

The University of Queensland has received the third-largest allocation nationally in federal funding for research and research training for 2010 announced today.

20 January 2010

UQ physicists and Harvard chemists have teamed up to build a quantum computer that could have profound implications for wider science.

7 January 2010

An international research team including experts from The University of Queensland has looked to cleaner fish to appreciate how humans may have evolved to punish free-loaders.

5 January 2010