Leading scientists and marine managers have called for a greater national effort to protect vital 1000-kilometre stretches in the middle of Australia’s eastern and western coastlines.
22 November 2010Subversive cartoonists in India and South Asia, and a man who led the fight for media freedom in Indonesia are joint-winners of the prestigious University of Queensland (UQ) Communication for Social Change Award for 2010.
20 October 2010Professor Bernard Degnan from UQ's School of Biological Sciences has led an international team of scientists to sequence the genome of the first marine animal from Australian waters.
4 August 2010An international team of scientists has been exploring Moreton Bay, close to Brisbane, as a possible ‘lifeboat’ to save corals from the Great Barrier Reef at risk of extermination under climate change.
26 July 2010A new UQ report, launched by The Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, has found that there is no coherent system in place for proof or pleading of Indigenous customary law in Queensland and this forms a barrier for those relying on these laws in...
20 July 2010Landholders will find it easier to understand the laws affecting the sustainable management of their land once a research project by a UQ law academic is complete.
10 June 2010Beauty is in the eye of beholder, or a few hundred psychologists, as will be the case during an international conference in Bristol, England from June 22 – 23.
4 June 2010A one-day seminar taking place at the University of Queensland in July will facilitate the continuing urgent debate about Australia’s offshore constitutional laws and the unsatisfactory nature of the federal issues between the States and the...
25 May 2010Address by Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of The University of Queensland centenary Oration Opening Ceremony for World Press Freedom Day Celebrations, Brisbane, Australia, 2 May 2010.
2 May 2010UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.
9 April 2010A 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 2010XeroCoat Inc, the company commercialising anti-reflective technology research developed by Dr Michael Harvey and Professor Paul Meredith from The University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Mathematics and Physics, has recently announced a number of...
5 March 2010
How much does it really cost to stop deforestation?
26 February 2010UQ research has found being a copycat works out pretty well for a certain reef fish.
23 February 2010The University of Queensland has launched an exciting initiative that aims to address the financial and practical barriers preventing many school students from reaching university.
12 February 2010An international research team including experts from The University of Queensland has looked to cleaner fish to appreciate how humans may have evolved to punish free-loaders.
5 January 2010
