The University of Queensland's Professor Mat Darveniza has won a 1997 Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

10 November 1997

Australians' tastes in television, books, films and music are becoming dominated by American products, according to a new study of cultural trends.

10 November 1997

The University of Queensland will encourage research by new staff through the allocation of $1 million for research projects in 1998.

10 November 1997

Mechanical engineering PhD student Susan Anderson has been awarded the Amelia Earhart Fellowship for her research into air flow turbulence - for the second time.

10 November 1997

Twenty University graduates will be auctioned to the highest bidder on November 16 - all of them 'perfectly trained and eager to please'.

10 November 1997

Working parents who are strongly commited to their jobs are perceived positively by their children, according to a University of Queensland study.

7 November 1997

Ninety percent of all toddler drownings in Queensland domestic pools in the past four years have occurred in pools where there was no or substandard pool fencing, according to a University of Queensland study.

7 November 1997

A new $600,000 laboratory at the University of Queensland is helping the world's mining companies to date rock samples and plan exploration programs.

7 November 1997

Sixteen bus and coach operators will graduate from a University of Queensland-organised accreditation course at a ceremony on Friday, November 7 at 6pm.

6 November 1997

Terrace old boy Ben White has been named the 1998 Queensland Rhodes Scholar.

6 November 1997

The University has received the State's highest number of Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre first preference applications for places in 1998, going against the State trend for a declining number of applications.

5 November 1997

The Port of Brisbane Corporation will donate $750,000 to assist with construction of a new Moreton Bay Research Station and Study Centre at Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island.

4 November 1997

The University of Queensland has appointed several key consultants for stage one of construction of the University's Ipswich campus, which will open for the first student intake in February 1999.

3 November 1997

A University of Queensland researcher has received a four-year $3.9million grant to establish an Australian arm of an international bowel cancer registry.

3 November 1997

First-year engineering students watched as roofs buckled during a hands-on research project at the University.

3 November 1997

Australians on average were likely to be at least $1400 richer in 1996-97 thanks to foreign investment over the past decade, according to a University of Queensland study.

3 November 1997

Queensland Governor and University Visitor Major General Peter Arnison AO opened the Women's College's new Piddington Wing and College Playhouse on Friday, October 17.

3 November 1997

A new Departmental Accountant System, designed by staff in the University of Queensland's Business Services Systems Section, is saving time, money and literally tonnes of paper.

3 November 1997

The Governor of Queensland, His Excellency Major General Peter Arnison, AO will announce the 1998 Queensland Rhodes Scholar at around 5.30pm on Thursday, November 6 at the University of Queensland.

3 November 1997

Queensland's only veterinary radiologist, Associate Professor Carol Carlisle of the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Queenslands, been appointed president of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.

3 November 1997