The UQ Solar Array underpins a number of cutting-edge research projects, in diverse fields including physics, engineering, economics and sustainability.

15 July 2011

The first international student has taken part in The University of Queensland's FEAST program to discover career pathways in science and experience University life.

14 July 2011

Leading researchers in clean alternative fuel technologies, industry representatives and international experts will attend Queensland’s first future fuels conference in Brisbane in July.

3 June 2011

The Australian Government’s new Excellence in Research for Australia process and other techniques for assessing the value and quality of research will be keenly debated at an international symposium in Brisbane next week (May 16 and 17).

11 May 2011
From just 18 randomly selected white tiles (representing measurements) out of a potential 576, the researchers were able to estimate the behaviour of a quantum device (illustrated by the yellow section). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi

An international team has removed a major obstacle to engineer quantum systems that will play a key role in the computers, communication networks, and even biomedical devices of the future.

8 March 2011
Honours Student, Mirta Zupan, working on the new CCM aquaria. Photo by Dr David Kline.

In a world first, a new ‘state of the art’ climate change experimental facility has been completed at the University of Queensland’s (UQ) Heron Island Research Station.

7 December 2010

The 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

The Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland will host renowned scientist and author, Professor Naomi Oreskes, on November 16, for the Brisbane leg of her Australian tour.

10 November 2010

The future of cities in the United States and Australia will be explored in a landmark urban-planning conference in Brisbane’s Parliament House on November 15 & 16.

3 November 2010
One-time classmates and longtime friends Sir Llew Edwards and Nat Yuen were reunited at UQ on the weekend. (Pic Lyle Radford)

TWO friends who studied medicine together almost half a century ago were honoured at a University of Queensland gala dinner on Saturday night.

5 July 2010

The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years.

17 June 2010

A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.

10 March 2010

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

27 January 2010

Against tough competition, GRW Industries has won UQ Business School's Enterprize competition to commercialise their revolutionary personal cooling vest for emergency workers and miners.

19 October 2009
Image of Australian tectonic boundary (red line). The two area's circled are hypothetical hot-spots which if a earthquake occurred at could cause a tsunami that would threaten the Australian east coast.

The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related.

8 October 2009

An international conference to be held at The University of Queensland later this month is set to scrutinise research into complementary medicine (CM) and its role in health care.

2 October 2009

Experts from around the world will be attending a symposium in Canberra next week to review the impact of the historic free trade agreement signed between the US and Australia five years ago this month (August).

22 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

Regardless of your background, you can expand your horizons with UQ Business School, as Dean Robertson found when he began his MBA earlier this year.

4 August 2009

UQ graduand Joseph Mullins will encourage graduates this week to remain students, in whatever their careers or stages in life.

21 July 2009