University of Queensland researchers have won the highest number and value of the Australian Research Council's Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (RIEF) grants for 2000.

27 October 1999

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's Centre for Drug Design and Development has launched three spin-off biotechnology companies to further develop intellectual property and commercialise the results of its research.

26 February 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

The University of Queensland's technology transfer company UniQuest Limited today signed a major contract with the Australian Defence Department.

15 January 1999

The University of Queensland has maintained its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the second-highest number of new large project grants in 1999 allocations from the Australian Research Council (ARC)

3 December 1998

University of Queensland senior scientific officer Lyn Beard knew she had mastered her job as an aerial observer when she stopped counting kangaroos in her sleep.

3 September 1998

The University of Queensland has scooped the lion's share of awards in a new Australian Research Council scheme to promote international collaboration.

14 July 1998

The University of Queensland's 1998 Alumnus of the Year is arts graduate, honorary doctor of letters and multi-award-winning actor Dr Geoffrey Rush.

9 July 1998

Australia is in a 'wonderfully competitive position' to develop the next great leap forward in computation, the quantum computer, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

28 May 1998

Astronauts may soon be giving their feet a work-out with exercises devised by a University of Queensland student.

20 May 1998

A University of Queensland academic has authored what is believed to be the most comprehensive survey of women ever conducted in Australia.

19 May 1998

Julie Webb has not let blindness prevent her from becoming one of the top achieving medallists of the 63 students awarded University of Queensland medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 18 and May...

15 May 1998

More than 1000 primary and secondary students from throughout Queensland are expected to visit the University of Queensland for National Science Week activities from May 2 to 10.

23 April 1998

Australia's response to drug trafficking and other drugs-related problems will come under the spotlight at a conference in Brisbane on December 8.

2 December 1997

Brisbane-based company Advanced Ceramics Development (ACD) has completed commissioning trials on a prototype semi-automated instrument to produce high temperature superconductor powders.

1 December 1997

Australia had selected many of the wrong space projects for funding in the past, and needed to get back on track for the future if it was to compete successfully in a global sense.

4 September 1997

The University of Queensland's Chaplaincy Centre will host a free public symposium on euthanasia on August 30.

22 August 1997

The University of Queensland's technology transfer company, UniQuest Limited, this month signed a licensing agreement covering intellectual property for a gene controlling formation of bone and cartilage.

18 August 1997