Professor Robert Henry has been appointed Professor of Innovation in Agriculture and Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), a new research Institute at The University of Queensland (UQ).

15 April 2010

Australian text analytics company, Leximancer Pty Ltd has claimed a huge leap forward in the capability of software to understand what customers are saying.

14 April 2010

An Australian Government pledge of $2.4 million to a University of Queensland teaching hospital ensures clinical training for at least 250 extra UQ medical and health students each year.

12 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

Students from UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law are being sought by one of Japan’s leading law firms for legal editor positions in 2011.

31 March 2010

The Visiting Nursing Service of New York will trial the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI), developed at The University of Queensland (UQ), with older people it provides care to in the Greater New York area.

30 March 2010

The University of Queensland’s School of Tourism and business partners Club Training Australia and Dickson Wohlsen Strategies have joined forces to bring Korean students to Brisbane.

7 March 2010
From left: Robert Fuller, State Director CEDA, Andrew Fraser, Queensland Treasurer, and Professor Tim Brailsford, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.

The UQ Business School will work with the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) to deliver an education program for emerging business leaders.

1 March 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

The general public are being asked to get involved in saving the koala or face a future without Queensland’s faunal emblem.

24 February 2010
UQ Business School has been chosen to run the Thiess leadership program

UQ Business School Corporate Education and Thiess are teaming up to enhance the leadership capability of Thiess managers.

23 February 2010
The first Laing O’Rourke cohort graduating from UQBS professional development courses

UQ Business School Downtown is proving there is power in strategic partnerships, with the first Laing O’Rourke cohort graduating from UQBS professional development courses.

23 February 2010

It may seem like a really long holiday, but Nicquel Rhoden is taking her upcoming trip as the New Zealand “dream job” winner very seriously.

18 February 2010
UQ student Ellen Cunneen (front centre) with fellow Disney World interns in Florida

UQ student Ellen Cunneen has set herself an ambitious goal: to experience every ride at Walt Disney World’s six theme parks in the next six months.

18 February 2010

University of Queensland researchers will have access to some of the world’s leading cancer imaging equipment with today’s opening of a $2.5 million facility funded by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF).

10 February 2010

UQ researchers are conducting a project that will provide data on the impact of wild red deer on the environment and their value as a game species.

29 January 2010

UQ and Alzheimer's Australia (Qld) will work together to reduce the impact of dementia after signing a new Memorandum of Understanding recently.

19 January 2010

A University of Queensland centre, Rangelands Australia, has become the first University-based initiative to be recognised by an Australian Rural Education Award.

19 January 2010