Juggling several part-time jobs, university study and elite athletics is no easy task, but Catherine Drummond is not your ordinary scholar.
18 November 2008Underground Productions, UQ’s student-run theatre company, turns 10 today, and all arts lovers are invited to join in the birthday celebrations.
29 October 2008Better chronic pain relief could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute.
22 October 2008Researchers have identified a gene critical for the development of the lymphatic system in a discovery that will have implications for treatment of cancer and lymphatic disorders and other diseases.
19 October 2008A UQ structural biologist has received $85,000 to investigate how material coming into and out of the cell is sorted, information which will improve our understanding of diseases such as cancer.
22 September 2008The University of Queensland Business School will work with Youngcare – a charity supporting young people with high care needs – to research social innovation.
1 September 2008The development of low-cost, synthetic vaccines; a system to efficiently mass-produce a form of Hyaluronic Acid for clinical uses; a clotting agent from Brown snake venom; and a synthetic implant for repairing knee cartilage pads were the wining...
5 August 2008Scaring cane toads and targeting their bacteria are two control strategies that will be suggested by a Queensland scientist at today’s (June 12) Australian Vertebrate Pest Conference in Darwin.
12 June 2008Some of the world's most promising young cricketers will visit The University of Queensland when it plays host to four matches of the Emerging Players Tournament held in July.
5 June 2008A recent third placing at the Byron Bay Triathlon is a great result for UQ scholar Adam Carlton but he predicts it is merely a stepping stone to greater things.
28 May 2008The reason women are increasingly turning to non-conventional health treatments will be the focus of world-first research led by The University of Queensland (UQ) into the multi-billion dollar complementary and alternative medicine industry.
23 May 2008Projects providing free legal advice to the homeless and aiding farmers in the Asia-Pacific have won this year’s UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards.
14 May 2008After taking on God in two bestselling books, Phillip Adams will chair a lively discussion on the state of modern spirituality during UQ’s 2008 Diversity Week celebrations.
30 April 2008Two University of Queensland researchers have been acknowledged as being among the country’s top scientists after being elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.
25 March 2008Two UQ Mechanical Engineering students have swapped the lecture theatre for a palm oil mill in Papua New Guinea this semester.
18 March 2008A geneticist from a team that recently identified multiple genes that cause intellectual disability in children will give a seminar in Brisbane on Thursday.
11 March 2008Students at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SBS) in The University of Queensland were treated to a faculty welcome with a difference during their Orientation Week in February.
22 February 2008University of Queensland scientists have developed a proprietary technology that will help other researchers in understanding fundamental aspects of growth, development, and disease, which has been licensed to one of the world’s largest life science...
11 February 2008Australian scientists are researching a possible way of making aggressive prostate cancer cells less invasive after their discovery of a protein essential for the normal functioning of cells.
18 January 2008
