2009 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding $685,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards tonight (Tuesday, September 22).

22 September 2009

The University of Queensland will use almost $1 million in new Queensland Government funding to speed the flow of research inventions to the community.

3 September 2009
David Solnet

Savvy tourism operators are using the economic downturn to rise above their competitors.

28 August 2009
Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO

Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO, Governor of Queensland, became the first woman to deliver the annual Dr David Williams Lecture at King’s College on August 4.

17 August 2009
Professor Bille Brown at the opening ceremony of the VIII World
Shakespeare Congress, hosted by UQ in 2006

When Bille Brown was honoured at the 2009 Helpmann Awards at the Sydney Opera House recently, he was in fine company.

6 August 2009

The University of Queensland’s annual Great Court race celebrated a quarter of a century this year with a strong field of athletes and plenty of competition.

2 July 2009

UQ Business School will present a one-day supply network management summit on Thursday 4 June to debate issues confronting senior executives managing domestic and international supply networks.

1 May 2009

Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.

21 April 2009
Professor Parton (top) and Professor Hall

Two University of Queensland scientists have been awarded National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia Fellowships valued at a total of $8 million.

28 January 2009

University of Queensland researchers will participate in a new $60 million National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training announced by the Rudd Government.

23 January 2009

A $100 million Australian National Fabrication Facility launched this month in Canberra includes a Queensland node, based at The University of Queensland.

21 October 2008

The University of Queensland’s School of Medicine has been recognised for its provision of innovative programs in outward mobility and student exchange.

12 September 2008

An innovative irrigation project will be installed at The University of Queensland Boyce Garden at 6 Range Street, Toowoomba, in time for the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers from September 19 to 28.

14 August 2008

A number of people associated with The University of Queensland were honoured in the Queen's Birthday honours list announced yesterday.

10 June 2008

The University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield has congratulated two Queenslanders with UQ affiliations who tonight will be honoured at the ATSE Clunies Ross Awards at the Sofitel, Brisbane.

14 May 2008

Half a century after the last earth-shattering atomic blast shook the Pacific atoll of Bikini, the corals are flourishing again. Some coral species, however, appear to be locally extinct.

14 April 2008

More than 50 scientists of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies today declared the following statements unanimously:

22 October 2007

An international team of Australian and Israeli researchers has discovered what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth.

18 October 2007

UQ has increased its share of national medical research funding by 10 percent, receiving more than $44.6 million under the latest round of National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) grants.

25 September 2007

University of Queensland researchers have won both of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) 2008 Australia Fellowships, worth a total of $8 million.

25 September 2007