Professor Richard Hays from Townsville has been appointed as the head of the North Queensland Clinical School of the University of Queensland's Graduate School of Medicine.

1 December 1998

PYROSEARCH, the pyrometallurgy research group within the University of Queensland's Mining, Minerals and Materials Engineering Department, has been awarded a $510,000 contract for research into high temperature zinc smelting processes.

20 August 1998

University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay has helped launch an advertising campaign on Brisbane buses, part of a state-wide strategy instigated by higher education officials in collaboration with Queensland's nine universities.

14 August 1998

Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine Professor Peter Doherty will launch a new initiative in Brisbane next week designed to direct the University of Queensland's development strategies.

29 May 1998

One of the University of Queensland's most highly regarded academics will be honoured by associates and colleagues in a two-day tribute next month.

26 September 1997

The University of Queensland enrolled a record number of first-year students in 1996, including 80 percent of students who achieved Overall Positions of 1, according to the University's annual report tabled in State Parliament.

30 May 1997

The University of Queensland soon expects to announce a second round of adjunct professors to be appointed from second semester 1997.

24 April 1997