A still photo of Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s Yifei Luo presenting her winning 3MT ‘Listening in on Plants through a Conductive Liquid Glue’.

A student from Singapore has topped a field of 54 talented researchers in the 2020 Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, winning the first virtual final hosted by The University of Queensland.

2 October 2020
Emma Schimke, UQ 3MT Final Winner, presenting her 3MT

University of Queensland PhD student Emma Schimke had a dream ending to her Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation after being named the winner of UQ’s first ever virtual 3MT competition.

17 September 2020

PhD candidate Cody Frear will represent The University of Queensland in the Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis Competition on Friday 4 October, after winning the 2019 UQ 3MT Final.

19 September 2019

Award-winning journalist and free speech advocate Peter Greste is set to feature in a “realistic and comedic dramatisation of the darker side of academia”.

4 July 2019

Fifty-eight upcoming researchers raced against the clock as they competed in the 2018 Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis (3MT) final at The University of Queensland this week.

28 September 2018
winner-micha-jackson-holding-a-big-dummy-cheque-flanked-by-competition-officials

PhD candidate Micha Jackson will represent The University of Queensland in the Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis Competition later this month, after winning the 2018 UQ 3MT Final.

14 September 2018

More than fifty of the brightest future researchers will have no time to waste when they battle it out in the upcoming Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis (3MT) final at The University of Queensland.

20 September 2017
2017 UQ 3MT Winner Edwin Davis

University of Queensland PhD candidate Edwin Davis’s research into more efficient and safer drones has helped him win UQ’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

14 September 2017
Dr Karrera Djoko

Infectious bacteria E. coli can defend itself and grow in acidic and copper-rich human environments a new University of Queensland study suggests.

13 June 2017
UQ's Excellence awardees 2016

Staff who have contributed to The University of Queensland’s vision of excellence have been celebrated and awarded at the 2016 UQ Awards for Excellence.

10 June 2016

UQ refutes media coverage stating that it is trying to block climate research by stopping the release of data used in a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

20 May 2014

The University of Queensland has been advised that a publication on which a UQ researcher is one of four co-authors has been retracted by an academic journal for what appear to be legal reasons.

2 April 2014

Eight of The University of Queensland’s top research students will have three minutes each to explain their work to the public during a contest at the University’s St Lucia campus on Tuesday 17 September.

12 September 2013

The University of Queensland has congratulated the winners of eight UQ awards which aim to bring bright minds from Indonesia and Australia closer together.

29 November 2012

An extended contract agreement with Queensland company EcoBiotics will see University of Queensland scientist Dr Craig Williams continue to support EcoBiotics’ quest to develop new medical therapies from ancient rainforest species.

7 February 2011

Can bacteria be used to stop the spread of dengue? Is the era of useful antibiotics coming to an end? Could termites provide a solution to a more efficient biofuel industry?

13 July 2009

Queensland biotech company Ecobiotics, has progressed its existing relationship with The University of Queensland’s (UQ) natural products synthesis group by establishing a three-year, $2.5 million research contract.

13 February 2007

Understanding how our kidneys absorb protein from urine should give medical researchers more ammunition to fight skyrocketing kidney disease in diabetics.

23 September 2004

University of Queensland (UQ) scientists are playing a major role in a new Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre (EBCRC) being launched in Sydney today (30 October).

30 October 2003

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will share in more than $34 million in funding as part of the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) program grants scheme.

19 June 2003