Humanitarian aid may have gone from textbook to daily reality for East Timor-based INTERFET advisor Major David Freeman but his academic excellence will be recognised in Brisbane today, Friday, October 8.

8 October 1999

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

A work-based learning program for engineering students has won the University of Queensland a prestigious national teaching organisational development gran

31 August 1999

An honour board of 46 University graduates and staff who have represented Australia in Olympic Games since 1948 could become part of a permanent sports museum or hall of fame at the St Lucia campus.

13 May 1999

The next Rugby World Cup is expected to be the scene of just as many clashes off the field as on as English clubs recruit the world's best players, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

7 May 1999

One of the world's largest agribusiness banks, Rabobank, and the University of Queensland, today launched what is believed to be the first Australasian executive development program for primary producers.

12 April 1999

Whether it is perusing previously top secret documents about John F Kennedy in Boston or using state-of-the-art isotope analysis equipment in China, the world is a postgraduate's oyster thanks to new University of Queensland travel awards.

31 March 1999

The University of Queensland's governing Senate has re-elected Sir Llew Edwards, AC as Chancellor and elected Mr Robert Wensley, QC as Deputy-Chancellor.

12 February 1999

Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has been appointed an adjunct professor with the University of Queensland's T.C. Beirne School of Law.

1 February 1999

Emeritus Professor John Kerr AO, Keith McDonald OBE, William Yang and Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser will each receive an honorary degree from UQ.

2 December 1998

The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.

23 November 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, University of Queensland, will enter Monday night's announcements and presentations of the 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching as the nation's best represented university.

18 November 1998

Art and engineering have come together to create a "monster" in a collaborative project between the University of Queensland's Mechanical Engineering Department and two Brisbane performance artists.

3 November 1998

The University of Queensland is hosting its first fellows under an AusAID program to help Thai universities overcome perceived personnel shortfalls in science and engineering.

22 October 1998

Delegates at an international conference in Brisbane this month will learn how Queensland's Tawny Frogmouth Owl and the humble Sandlance fish hold clues to the complexities of human binocular vision.

15 September 1998

When he first came to Australia from Wales at the age of 16, David Williams was broke and had little formal education.

20 August 1998

The battle to beat skin cancer is now being fought in the prams, pushchairs and pre-schools of Queensland.

19 August 1998

Chair of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Professor Vicki Sara will be guest speaker at one of two University of Queensland graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on Friday, August 7.

6 August 1998

The University of Queensland's national dominance of two key outcomes of higher education has been independently recognised with a coveted national award.

23 July 1998

One of Australia's most distinguished plant scientists Dr Marshall Davidson (Hal) Hatch, AM, will address nearly 200 graduates at a University of Queensland ceremony in Mayne Hall on Wednesday, May 20 at 6pm.

19 May 1998