The Ipswich Boilerhouse powered the Ipswich Asylum a century ago but now it’s driving social and economic change for the city after a $2.1 million overhaul.
27 March 2006A UQ-led scramjet experiment had a perfect liftoff at Woomera, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia.
25 March 2006The University of Queensland HyShot™ team is bunkered down at Woomera range this week ready for two Defence-managed experimental flights of scramjet technology scheduled for Saturday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 28.
23 March 2006Professor Ian Frazer will use his profile as Australian of the Year to help ensure his cancer vaccine reaches those who need it most – women and girls living in poverty.
25 January 2006Dr Elsie Harwood, a pioneer in the field of the psychology of ageing, was closely associated with The University of Queensland for most of her distinguished 94 years. Dr Harwood died on December 31, 2005.
13 January 2006The University of Queensland will use a new $2.7 million partnership with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) to help shore up the future of Australia’s mining industry.
9 December 2005A former politician who read the complete works of Shakespeare four times during a six-year prison term will be a headline speaker when The University of Queensland hosts the VIII World Shakespeare Congress in 2006.
21 November 2005The University of Queensland is pivotal to a new world-first minerals research institute that today attracted a record grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
9 November 2005A new damage detection monitor for draglines could boost mine production rates by about 30 percent and minimise maintenance costs.
25 October 2005International researchers in history and philosophy of science will join leading Queensland bioscientists to discuss the meaning of the genomic revolution at a conference to be held at The University of Queensland on October 14-15.
11 October 2005The last of the University of Queensland’s 13 libraries will be refurbished from September in a $13.5 million dollar overhaul of the Biological Sciences Library.
15 August 2005Skin creams and patches might be the easiest way to give your pets medicine but their success also depends on the breed and where it’s applied.
2 August 2005Common computers are morphing into powerful microscopes at UQ as the University trials virtual microscopes and unveils a plan to build a national repository of virtual veterinary slides.
28 July 2005Three of the largest native mammals in Australia and South America should be marketed better and harvested instead of being considered pests, according to a Brisbane zoologist.
28 July 2005The next wave of biotechnology commercialisation stands to benefit from a new source of capital established by the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and its commercialisation company IMBcom.
26 April 2005Melissa Little, a scientist from IMB, was presented with the prestigious GlaxoSmithKline Australia Award for Research Excellence last night.
7 April 2005A venom component from the Taipan, the world’s deadliest snake, is being developed by Brisbane biotechnology company ElaCor, as a new drug to treat heart failure.
21 February 2005University of Queensland research on seizures in newborn babies will benefit from National Health and Medical Research Council funding to take effect from this month.
21 January 2005Address by Bob Bishop (Chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics, Inc.) following his receipt of his Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at the UQ Centre, St Lucia today at 10am.
15 December 2004A venom compound from the world’s deadliest snake, the Taipan, is being developed by Brisbane biotechnology company ElaCor, as a new drug to treat heart failure.
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