The University of Queensland and the Queensland Government today (12/8/2003) signed a major agreement to acquire one of the most powerful supercomputers in Australia.

12 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

A recent UQ PhD graduate has spent the past three years looking at how to prevent kidney failure in Aboriginals.

22 July 2003

THE University of Queensland’s Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Biosecurity received a funding boost today with the Queensland Government announcing more than $4 million will go to the new facility due to open in July.

24 June 2003

Brain imaging researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have produced high-resolution maps of a dynamic wave of tissue loss in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers.

6 February 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

A company formed to commercialise technology developed in Queensland to treat pain and control bleeding has secured a $10 million investment deal.

13 December 2002

The University of Queensland’s oldest research centre is celebrating an important milestone – its 50th anniversary.

2 October 2002

People with breathing difficulties or urinary incontinence may be at greater risk of spinal injuries according to a University of Queensland researcher.

25 September 2002

Australia is in a strong position to participate as suppliers, rather than as purchasers of services, in advanced space technology, according to a leading UQ space researcher.

24 September 2002

University of Queensland researchers today (August 16) claimed success for the world`s first flight test of supersonic combustion, the process used in an air-breathing supersonic ramjet engine, known as a scramjet.

16 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

A $33 million research complex opening today (July 15) is the new home for a University of Queensland research group pioneering vaccines against cervical cancer and genital warts.

15 July 2002

A $4 million SGI Origin 3000 supercomputer was officially launched by the State Minister for Innovation and Information Economy Paul Lucas at The University of Queensland today.

8 March 2002

University of Queensland researchers from two entirely different disciplines — rocket science and zoology — are searching the South Australian desert this week in a bid to locate the payload and second stage rocket from the HyShot scramjet...

25 February 2002

A new SGI Origin 3000 supercomputer will be based at The University of Queensland, assisting in research areas such as drug design, genetics, molecular modelling and natural disaster prediction.

23 January 2002

The Queensland Government and The University of Queensland have announced a $50 million Australian Institute of Bio-Engineering and Nanotechnology would be established in Brisbane.

11 December 2001

A small group of scientists is quietly bunkering down this week for potentially one the biggest developments in aerospace history.

22 October 2001

The University of Queensland has attracted the largest Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant for a project investigating potential new drug therapies derived from the venom of marine snails.

24 September 2001

The University of Queensland's $1.25 million HyShot program is counting down to its Woomera launch in October with final flight reviews and testing of all components.

6 August 2001