Research to be conducted at the new Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE) to be built in Brisbane could save lives and slice millions from Australia’s pharmaceutical benefits bill through better use of medicines.

18 August 2004

A University of Queensland researcher has put forward a new model to explain the unique granite formations of the Himalayan mountains.

21 June 2002

The growing popularity of dance/rave culture in south-east Queensland has led to change in health and social problems associated with illegal drug use.

30 April 2002

Scientists have long explored the possibilities of technology but most of the work has never really pushed nature to its limits.

12 September 2001

UQ graduate and 1996 Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty will give his ideas on The role of the public university at a free public lecture.

17 August 2001

Four eminent Chinese geoscientists visiting The University of Queensland (UQ) have predicted a high likelihood for strong earthquakes in Japan, Korea and surrounding regions early this century.

28 August 2000

A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new technology that could assist in significantly improving the rate of accurate cervical cancer detection.

23 August 2000

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

A University of Queensland student's extraction of DNA from human bones submerged in the sea for more than 200 years is believed to be a world-first.

13 November 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

Scientist, medical doctor, engineer and former taxi driver Dr Karl Kruszelnicki will speak on Great Moments In Science in a free public lecture at the University of Queensland on Tuesday, October 20.

3 August 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

More than 200 years after HMS Pandora struck the Great Barrier Reef and sank, a University of Queensland researcher is attempting to add to history by working on human skeletal remains recovered from the wreck by Queensland Museum archaeologists.

8 May 1998

A postgraduate student and a staff member from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa have become the first two exchange visitors to the University of Queensland under a new Federal program to link Australian and South African higher education...

2 April 1998

Visitors to the University of Queensland's Chemistry Department during Expo Uni may find it a slightly slimy experience.

23 April 1997