A recent experience of cancer in his close-knit family provided the inspiration for University of Queensland graduate Steven Suchting to pursue a Rhodes Scholarship researching the disease at Oxford University.

3 December 1999

Queensland Fire Services officers were called today at 10.15 am to a small fire which broke out in a ground floor laboratory of the five-storey wing of the Hawken engineering building at St Lucia.

3 December 1999

University of Queensland academics have won Australian Awards for University Teaching for the third consecutive year since the awards were established in 1997.

1 December 1999

The planned Rotary Center for International Studies at the University of Queensland will shape future world leaders and conflict resolution experts, according to the Rotary Foundation's Tamara Simek.

1 December 1999

Professor Brandon Wainwright deputy director of the University of Queensland's Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology (CMCB) and Professor of Biochemistry has been awarded the Fisher Prize and Lecture from the University of Adelaide.

30 November 1999

University Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay has been appointed to the Queensland Innovation Council as an inaugural member.

30 November 1999

Scholars and academics must learn how to boost public awareness of cutting-edge humanities research, according to the director of a new centre at the University of Queensland.

30 November 1999

A recent South Pacific conference has brought a major breakthrough in a University of Queensland journalism PhD student's campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness in the region.

30 November 1999

Preliminary advice indicates that The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading medical research universities.

30 November 1999

Almost one-third of people in Australia's metropolitan cities live in communities that are vulnerable according to a new book from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).

29 November 1999

World-first research at the University of Queensland has proved the efficacy of a popular, internationally-marketed psychological treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is relatively poor.

29 November 1999

The University of Queensland Librarian Janine Schmidt has been named Library Manager of the Year by the Australian Library and Information Association .

29 November 1999

Size matters, blocks are boys' business and "play" is a word reserved for when teacher is around.

26 November 1999

Three recent PhD awards were another example of the high quality and standard set by theses completed at the University of Queensland, according to the Deputy Director of the UQ Graduate School and Dean of Postgraduate Studies Associate Professor...

26 November 1999

An Australian-first University of Queensland technology training project aimed at boosting the job prospects of Ipswich people with a disability has been awarded a $90,890 grant by the Commonwealth Government.

25 November 1999

University of Queensland research centres and their industry partners this month won three of six 1999 awards for outstanding achievement in collaborative R&D made by the Business/Higher Education Round Table (BHERT).

25 November 1999

The University of Queensland will break new ground next year when it introduces a course providing postgraduate training for nurses.

24 November 1999

Professor Richard Williams is excited by the opportunity to lead The University of Queensland's Gatton campus into the new millennium.

22 November 1999

The University of Queensland today announced the five academics who have won the UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching 1999.

22 November 1999

The University of Queensland and CSIRO will hold a community information update/sausage sizzle to answer questions about the proposed Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB).

19 November 1999