The University of Queensland will host an immersive virtual reality centre backed by greatly increased supercomputing power and large data storage infrastructure.

16 September 1999

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

The University of Queensland has appointed respected Australian journalist Paul Kelly to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of Journalism.

9 August 1999

The University of Queensland has become the first Australian university to introduce awards recognising outstanding performance and leadership potential among research staff.

3 August 1999

Volunteers wanted: children who are turning (or have just turned) 6, 7 or 8 years old. Normal and ?clumsy' children welcome.

31 July 1999

Minister for Communication and Information Terry Mackenroth tonight will launch a bold new University of Queensland curriculum initiative to address Australia's current shortfall of IT graduates.

30 June 1999

A University of Queensland CD which is being used by some of Australia's future vets, doctors and scientists has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award to be announced this week.

31 May 1999

A University of Queensland academic has criticised economic rationalism as a "dumb" economic theory and has questioned its rise in Australian political thinking.

5 May 1999

Did Life Start in Hell? is the intriguing title of a public lecture to be held at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus on Thursday, April 15.

31 March 1999

University of Queensland researchers have attracted the top two Australian Research Council (ARC) equipment grants to Queensland for 1999.

15 March 1999

The University of Queensland's Centre for Drug Design and Development (3D Centre) and CSIRO are jointly supporting a $350,000 refurbishment of levels seven and eight of the Gehrmann Laboratories at St Lucia.

24 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

Places are still available for first semester courses in the University of Queensland's Technology Management Centre.

5 February 1999

Nurturing new research talent is the aim of a funding scheme recently introduced at the University of Queensland.

1 February 1999

A PhD oral examination system at the University of Queensland slashes the time from thesis submission to finalisation of the result from up to 12 months to around three.

21 January 1999

Forty secondary school science teachers will go back to school early this month to learn about cutting-edge advances in DNA science and molecular genetics.

13 January 1999

The University of Queensland's Technology Management Centre has been re-established as a joint venture between the University and its technology transfer company UniQuest Limited.

12 January 1999

First there was one, and now there are six baby koalas - the world's first marsupial offspring born following artificial insemination of their mothers

27 October 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, the University of Queensland, is working closely with international partners to solve environmental management problems around the globe.

23 October 1998

Plant and animal residues on ancient tools have revealed facts about the way our ape-like ancestors lived two million years ago.

30 September 1998