Bee venom that can be used for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and research into dementia, HIV and arthritis can now be easily and profitably harvested thanks to a University of Queensland student’s invention.
10 May 2019
Construction of the $125 million UQ Warwick Solar Farm is under way, bringing an injection of economic activity to the town and the Darling Downs region.
18 April 2019
Researchers from The University of Queensland have helped to develop a four-point plan to create more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and resilient cities.
27 March 2019
Australia’s world-leading expertise in small-scale mining is being showcased to 30 emerging leaders from the African mining sector as they visit the Gladstone and Emerald regions in Central Queensland.
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A new process turning waste glass into everyday products could save tens of millions of tonnes of glass from going to landfill every year.
22 February 2019
A $1.5 million gift from the Trevor and Judith St Baker Family Foundation will help electrify green technology research at The University of Queensland.
7 November 2018
A landmark research study is close to a breakthrough that would turn hospital waste into a product that can be used in agriculture or water treatment.
6 August 2018
Broken and dead coral will be recycled to help protect and grow the Great Barrier Reef in a collaborative project involving University of Queensland researchers.
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The University of Queensland is set to become the first major university in the world to offset 100 per cent of its electricity usage through its own renewable energy asset.
7 June 2018Queensland data science, user-experience design and power systems experts are working to develop a world-first data platform that will harness information from potentially millions of households.
12 February 2018
Australia will soon hold the record for the world’s tallest timber office building at 5 King St Brisbane, and with the help of The University of Queensland’s new research hub, wooden skyscrapers could become the norm.
23 November 2017UQ has a range of experts available to talk to media during the Queensland election campaign.
30 October 2017
University of Queensland research projects to develop better batteries for renewable energy and a way of predicting crop yields from space have been funded under a joint Queensland-China scheme.
17 October 2017
The Federal Government is backing a wave of investment in tidal electricity generation as experts tip that marine power will be the next big thing in renewable energy.
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University of Queensland researchers are celebrating a combined multi-million-dollar success in the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland Fellowships scheme.
24 March 2017
Transition to a low-carbon society will result in enormous demand for minerals to manufacture clean technologies, creating the need for a global resource governance framework, according to research published today.
16 March 2017
An open access Water Atlas has gone online, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from eastern Australia’s Surat Basin.
9 December 2016
Issues critical to communities across the world will be discussed at an international symposium in Brisbane from September 22 to 25.
20 September 2016
North Queensland has some of Earth’s largest known bauxite deposits, but their potential has largely remained locked in the ground, until now.
18 August 2016
Maintaining the temperature of large buildings uses a huge amount of energy, but a new system at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus is doing just this, while using a fraction of the electricity.
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