University of Queensland researchers from two entirely different disciplines — rocket science and zoology — are searching the South Australian desert this week in a bid to locate the payload and second stage rocket from the HyShot scramjet...

25 February 2002

Environmental engineer Leigh Staines gained experience working on offshore oil rigs accessible by helicopter, on her path towards a UQ graduation ceremony today.

17 December 2001

A $2.5 million medical imaging instrument, officially launched at the Royal Brisbane Hospital today, will boost efforts to diagnose and treat heart conditions, strokes and Parkinson’s Disease, as well as Alzheimer’s, vascular and musculoskeletal...

7 December 2001

A small group of scientists is quietly bunkering down this week for potentially one the biggest developments in aerospace history.

22 October 2001

New textbook for therapist sheds light on pain.

16 October 2001

The University of Queensland’s Pyrometallurgy Research Centre (PYROSEARCH) has secured a major boost to its research on high temperature metal smelting.

8 October 2001

People, infrastructure and strategic partnerships will become increasingly important issues for The University of Queensland, according to UQ's new Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor David Siddle.

3 September 2001

Dr David Theile will receive an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree at a University of Queensland graduation ceremony on Thursday, August 23 at 6pm.

23 August 2001

An economist whose name most people would like to see in abundance in their wallets is The University of Queensland's Alumnus of the Year 2001.

22 August 2001

How the brain solves problems, and what happens when this ability is impaired, for example in Alzheimer's disease, are the subjects of a new University of Queensland study.

1 June 2001

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to make the business of flight more efficient by significantly reducing drag, work which has implications for vehicles from aeroplanes to space craft.

26 March 2001

For the first time in Australia, doctors later this year will be able to "see" the human heart using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

7 February 2001

The U.S. Air Force, the National Aeronautical Laboratory of Japan, and U.S. aerospace company GASL have joined a University of Queensland-led international space flight project to blast off this year.

4 January 2001

The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the third highest number and amount of new grant allocations nationally for 2001 from the National Health and Medical...

21 November 2000

Queensland biotechnology research has been given a major boost with today's announcement of substantial funding for a world class structural biology facility.

31 October 2000

A new radar system will increase safety in open-cut coal mines by detecting possible locations of rock failure. The system can detect rock movements as small as one millimetre that are often precursors to wall collapse.

25 October 2000

University of Queensland researchers are providing an insurance policy to underpin the survival of a Gold Coast glow worm colony and a surrounding multi-million dollar eco-tourism industry.

4 October 2000

Nearly 40 years after researchers first asked how some retinal nerve cells could detect the direction of motion independently of the rest of the brain, a team of researchers from The University of Queensland and the Australian National University...

29 September 2000

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

The new joint national Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation (CRRI) has moved into the second stage of its feasibility study with a program of custom-designed courses to be offered across rural and regional Australia.

14 August 2000