Staff and students at Australia’s Group of Eight sandstone universities will gain improved access to more than 700 journals online from January 2003 in a new deal with Kluwer.

23 December 2002

Healthcare professionals and consumers are invited to comment on draft guidelines for the management of acute musculoskeletal pain.

23 December 2002

A new $2million research centre at the University of Queensland could reduce Australia’s spiralling rates of cardiovascular disease through early detection.

20 December 2002

The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane since 1992, the Most Rev John Bathersby, will be guest speaker at one of two University of Queensland graduation ceremonies tomorrow, Friday, December 20.

19 December 2002

Discovery of a gene that controls nodule development lays the groundwork for the creation of designer plants in future, according to Professor Peter Gresshoff from the Botany Department of the School of Life Sciences at The University of Queensland.

18 December 2002

Accounting pioneer Professor Ray Ball will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate at UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) graduation ceremony.

17 December 2002

University of Queensland start-up company Adipogen Pty Ltd has secured $330,000 in seed funding to develop a new class of anti-obesity drug.

17 December 2002

Adam Khan was told repeatedly during high school that he lacked intelligence, application and self-control and university study was well beyond him.

16 December 2002

Designers, planners and engineers will get the green light to create and implement their learning after receiving their degrees at a University of Queensland graduation ceremony on Tuesday, December 17.

16 December 2002

A workman died at about 7.35am today (Monday, September 16) after falling five storeys from the General Purpose South Building at St Lucia.

16 December 2002

A graduation ceremony bursting with stories of good cheer will usher in Christmas week this year in Ipswich.

13 December 2002

University of Queensland medicine graduate Cameron Mackay has traded the dead for the living.

13 December 2002

A company formed to commercialise technology developed in Queensland to treat pain and control bleeding has secured a $10 million investment deal.

13 December 2002

University of Queensland graduates under the age of 25 and available for full-time work have again achieved outstanding employment rates and high graduate salaries.

12 December 2002

The University of Queensland will share in funding totalling more than $55 million out of the total $90 million pool in the Australian Research Council’s Centres of Excellence (COEs) round announced today.

12 December 2002

Research into an environmentally friendly wastewater treatment has won a prestigious University of Queensland award for mature age student John Goopy.

12 December 2002

Scientists, teachers, police officers and parents are among this week’s health graduates from The University of Queensland.

12 December 2002

A new research centre focusing on early detection of exotic and emerging diseases will be established at The University of Queensland under the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) scheme for 2003.

12 December 2002

Queensland’s premier athletics stable is eyeing a hit-and-run mission at Australia’s most prestigious distance meet this weekend.

11 December 2002

Buddy the caroling Siamese cat has returned to the recording studio to put the backing vocals on a self-help tape made by his owner, Dr Maureen Burke, UQ’s Director of Student Support Services.

11 December 2002