Leading wildlife documentary maker Tina Dalton was awarded the prestigious UQ Gatton Gold Medal at the campus’ 2004 graduation ceremony last Friday.

20 December 2004

Address by Bob Bishop (Chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics, Inc.) following his receipt of his Doctor of Science Honoris Causa at the UQ Centre, St Lucia today at 10am.

15 December 2004

The legacy of a young zoologist who died earlier this year has been kept alive with the opening of a new research facility for endangered animals.

13 December 2004

Integrating farm forestry with conventional beef production in the Fitzroy Basin could deliver better economic returns for cattle producers while reducing damaging run-off into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, award-winning new University of...

10 December 2004

University of Queensland rocket scientists have upgraded a key ground test facility ahead of three experimental scramjet flights in Woomera in late 2005.

9 December 2004

More than 2000 consultations by a “virtual doctor” have been provided to children in regional Queensland thanks to world-leading research by The University of Queensland and valuable funding by the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

8 December 2004

A new book has captured some of the many stories and long history of larrikinism at The University of Queensland (UQ) Gatton as a permanent record of the campus’ rich heritage.

6 December 2004

After a life in dairy farms, aviation and local government, former Ipswich mayor John Nugent was surprised to hear of his honorary doctorate from The University of Queensland.

6 December 2004

The University of Queensland has won two major awards at the Australian Awards for University Teaching announced at Parliament House in Canberra today (Tuesday, November 30).

30 November 2004

The hot topic of “ageing well” is the focus for a group of researchers attending a Brisbane conference this week.

30 November 2004

A venom compound from the world’s deadliest snake, the Taipan, is being developed by Brisbane biotechnology company ElaCor, as a new drug to treat heart failure.

29 November 2004

The University of Queensland’s technology transfer company, UniQuest, and the University of Wollongong (UOW) will today (November 29) sign a historic commercialisation agreement.

29 November 2004

A visiting research scholar to The University of Queensland will present a workshop tomorrow (November 27) focusing on new and innovative approaches to dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

26 November 2004

Home gardeners are set to benefit from Australian company, Origo Biotech Pty Ltd’s latest University of Queensland research into developing plants which produce more flowers over an extended season.

26 November 2004

Smoking killed almost five million people around the world in 2000 with more than half the deaths occurring in smokers aged 30 to 69, according to a study by a University of Queensland researcher.

25 November 2004

Most people only think about legumes when they have a couple of peas roll off their forks and across the dinner table.

25 November 2004

Loneliness at work , service failures and emotional management decisions to heated customer complaints, are some of the discussion topics at the Second Brisbane Symposium on Emotions and Worklife.

24 November 2004

Producing one-off metal parts quickly for testing in cars or machinery has usually been the domain of plastics.

23 November 2004

Scientists from The University of Queensland (UQ) have received a million dollar grant to set up the state’s first-ever “seed bank” for arid zone native plants.

23 November 2004

Quantum Squeezing, a new book by two University of Queensland researchers that presents the first comprehensive overview of this hot topic in quantum physics, will be launched today.

22 November 2004