It’s said all good things come to those who wait and this has never been truer than for St Lucia’s Kathy Brennan whose UQ degree has been 48 years in the making.
7 December 2010The environmental scientist whose work on dioxins last year prompted governments around the world to suspend the use of some pesticides says there is more to the problem and authorities need to act urgently.
6 December 2010
International Relations student Jo Sampford never guessed that attending a small Tuesday-night Oxfam forum in Brisbane would lead to working in the office of Timorese President and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta.
6 December 2010
According to the Federal Department of Health and Ageing, 25 per cent of children aged between five and 17 are overweight or obese, but UQ Sport is offering a program that aims to help reduce this statistic.
3 December 2010Some of Australia’s most prominent authors have contributed to a new book that reveals the literary and historical treasures of The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Fryer Library.
30 November 2010
Toowong researcher Dr Annette Dexter walks the talk, literally.
29 November 2010
Research to focus on sustainable renewable energy storage systems, and on the development of sustainable bioprocesses to produce non fossil fuel derived chemical building blocks of the future.
23 November 2010The Global Change Institute small grant recipients for 2010 have been announced and illustrate the breadth and depth of research activities at The University of Queensland.
22 November 2010
Terms like “giving the evil eye” and “right hand man” have been commonplace since the ancient Greeks realised that humans perceive their world very differently on the left and right sides of their body.
14 November 2010
The University of Queensland has cemented its position as home to Australia’s best teachers, today adding three more national teaching awards to its collection.
29 September 2010Overweight Australian adolescents aged 14 to 17 years are needed for a University of Queensland and Wesley Research Institute study that aims to achieve more accurate body measurement for this group.
17 September 2010The mid year break wasn’t a holiday for all University of Queensland students with a group of keen, wildlife and environmental management enthusiasts heading to South America to see what they could find in the depths of the Amazon.
3 September 2010IMB researchers took out two of the four awards on offer at the recent Queensland Health and Medical Research Awards.
18 August 2010Young people are often nagged for spending too much time on computers and other gadgets, but this month their technological skills were challenged and rewarded at a Young ICT Explorers judging event.
16 August 2010It’s official: Coalition politicians are less certain than their Labor counterparts that climate change exists and less likely to consider it a serious threat to human existence, a new survey shows.
12 August 2010Professor Bernard Degnan from UQ's School of Biological Sciences has led an international team of scientists to sequence the genome of the first marine animal from Australian waters.
4 August 2010A significant breakthrough spearheaded by UQ, Canadian and Austrian researchers is featured in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
29 July 2010Feeling a sense of guilt or obligation towards an employer can increase an employee’s commitment to an organisation, a University of Queensland Business School researcher has found in a study of Chinese workers.
26 July 2010Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as the top international academic institution outside the USA in the magazine’s annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey.
6 July 2010
Young leaders from around the country will converge on UQ this weekend to make positive changes for themselves and their communities.
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