University of Queensland researchers are taking a unique look at the health of overweight children, who account for nearly one in four young Australians.

4 August 2003

University of Queensland researchers have developed a new drug to modify blood clotting that does not have the side effects of existing medications. The researchers have received venture capital and government support to help commercialise their...

24 July 2003

THE University of Queensland has appointed Professor Peter Gray as the inaugural director of the $50 million Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).

27 June 2003

The world’s forefront scientists simulating earth processes are meeting in Brisbane today and tomorrow to discuss a collaborative venture to construct a solid earth simulator or virtual observatory using advanced supercomputer simulation models.

5 June 2003

The University of Queensland has received the nation’s second highest funding in the second round of the 2003 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project grants announced yesterday by Federal Education, Science and Training Minister Dr...

30 May 2003

The export trade in Australian native flowers and foliage from Queensland is expected to grow into a $60 million industry in a decade through research and development programs in a new centre at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus.

30 May 2003

A number of members of The University of Queensland community were honoured with Centenary Medals, announced by Prime Minister John Howard last month.

20 May 2003

An 1877 edition of Alfred Tennyson’s Vivien will be one of the many collectible items for sale at The University of Queensland Alumni Association’s rare book auction on Thursday, April 24.

15 April 2003

A new international research collaboration signed today will have significant implications in the development of therapeutics for human medicine.

9 April 2003

UniQuest Pty Ltd has won three prestigious Commercialisation Excellence Awards at the Commercialisation Forum and Fair of Ideas held recently in Sydney.

3 April 2003

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

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

The University of Queensland will announce the winners of its teaching excellence, research supervision and enhancement of student learning awards at a gala ceremony at Customs House in Brisbane at 6.30pm tonight (Thursday, November 21).

21 November 2002

A UQ project to find and study the genes that control whether an embryo develops as a male or a female has attracted $720,000 funding in the latest Federal Government round.

31 October 2002

The University of Queensland has appointed an international expert in innovation as head of a major University centre.

21 October 2002

University of Queensland experts have been awarded more than $1.8 million funding and in-kind support to discover ways of rehabilitating degraded forests in Vietnam.

2 October 2002

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie today officially launched Q-Pharm Pty Ltd, a world-class, purpose-built clinical trial facility to take new drugs from the scientific laboratory to patient tests to ensure they are safe for human use.

28 August 2002

UQ researchers already hold the record for being the first group reported in the open literature to “fly” a scramjet in a UQ ground test facility in 1993.

27 July 2002

Strategies to support Australia’s ageing population will be discussed by a world expert at an upcoming University of Queensland sponsored conference.

12 July 2002

A precision instrument created to monitor the stability of rock walls in open-cut mines is to be commercially launched in a Hunter Valley coal mine tomorrow.

26 June 2002