The University of Queensland's Prentice Centre will spearhead plans for a world record attempt for the highest number of people accessing the Internet in the one location at the same time during an international conference this month.

8 April 1998

Poetry engraved on palm leaves was the way some Indonesians retain links with their cultural past, according to a University of Queensland academic.

11 March 1998

Baptist minister and John Mark Ministries Melbourne director Reverend Dr Rowland Croucher will be guest speaker at the University's 1998 commencement service on Sunday, March 8.

16 February 1998

English-born Dr Ian Whittington became Australia's newest citizen on January 23 in an idyllic late-afternoon Heron Island beachside setting.

10 February 1998

University of Queensland Architecture Department researchers have developed the State's first shade guidelines for young children, public pools and sporting fields.

19 January 1998

The recent arrival of Dr Rod Straw at the University of Queensland may be good news for human cancer sufferers as well as for his regular patients, cats and dogs.

7 January 1998

More than 430 high school students from north Queensland to northern New South Wales are using part of their holiday to take a vacation at the University of Queensland.

19 December 1997

University of Queensland archaeologists are testing a radically new hypothetical model of Mayan political organisation in the famous archaeological site of Copan in the Honduras.

26 November 1997

University of Queensland honours student Sue McGrath doesn't mind doing the dirty work to learn more about insect diversity.

20 October 1997

Ten bus and coach operators will graduate from a University of Queensland-organised accreditation course at a ceremony at the Country Comfort Inn, Victoria Parade, Rockhampton, on Sunday October 19 at 6pm.

16 October 1997

The University of Queensland-based Co-operative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Pathology is Australia's leading plant pathology research centre, according to an independent review of its operations.

29 September 1997

The Down Syndrome Research Program of the Schonell Special Education Research Centre at the University of Queensland will celebrate its 20th anniversary this weekend

19 September 1997

The University of Queensland's Schonell Special Education Research Centre will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Down Syndrome Research Program in September.

27 August 1997

Landmarks such as the Sunshine Coast's Big Pineapple and Coffs Harbour's Big Banana were unknown in the days when Arthur Streeton was painting his Australian landscapes.

19 August 1997

The University of Queensland's winning SunShark team returns to Brisbane today, Wednesday, August 6 afterSunShark won its class and was fifth overall among 80 entries at the World Solar-Car Rally in Akita, Japan, from August 1 to 3.

5 August 1997

Three hundred of the world's leading space engineers and medical researchers will attend the 21st International Symposium on Shock Waves from July 20 to July 25 at Great Keppel Island.

18 July 1997

Twenty-four bus and coach operators will graduate from a University of Queensland-organised accreditation course at a ceremony at the Tabletop Room, Picnic Point in the Park, Tourist Road, Toowoomba on Sunday, July 20 at 5.30pm.

17 July 1997

Nine bus and coach operators will graduate from a University of Queensland-organised accreditation course at a ceremony at the Mooloolaba Yacht Club on Sunday, July 13 at 5.30pm.

11 July 1997

The University of Queensland's Courses and Careers Day on Sunday, August 3, gives future students an opportunity to discuss study choices face-to-face with academics and staff.

3 July 1997

The 1997 University of Queensland Student Union will give students a voice on a range of issues to make campus life easier, according to newly elected president Cynthia Kennedy.

15 June 1997