Fifteen University of Queensland researchers have been awarded $15.3 million through the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships 2024 scheme to drive research and innovation.

28 August 2024
three people in safety glasses and white coats look at a glowing round yellow dish on a metal table

Researchers from The University of Queensland have made a dust from baker’s yeast that can detect COVID-19 and could safeguard communities against future pandemics.

26 June 2023
Turbulence (seen here in cyclones) ... is described as the oldest unsolved problem in physics. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

University of Queensland researchers have combined quantum liquids and silicon-chip technology to study turbulence for the first time, opening the door to new navigation technologies and improved understanding of the turbulent dynamics of cyclones...

20 December 2019
UQ Research Award winners 2019

The University of Queensland has shined a spotlight on its outstanding researchers at the 2019 Research Week awards.

18 September 2019
The batteries come in a thin, flexible format

Flexible screen-printed batteries may be the way forward for renewable energy thanks to a joint project between The University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales.

24 July 2017

Research into sustainable diesel production and the development of ultra-thin, flexible screen-printed batteries has attracted $3.85 million in funding from the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P).

28 June 2017
Brahman cattle grazing on an Australian property

Increasing fertility in cows, building better computers for aerospace, more accurately predicting land values, and revolutionising athletic footwear are research projects about as diverse as could be imagined.

5 May 2017
Former Innisfail student Emily Pattison won a 2013 scholarship to study Agricultural Science at The University of Queensland while completing Year 12 last year.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is boosting opportunities for students to enrol in its agricultural science and agribusiness studies as demand for skilled workers rises.

16 September 2013

Between 40 - 57 per cent of women will experience physical or sexual violence by a man at some point in their lives, according to a University of Queensland academic.

22 November 2010

The University of Queensland topped the nation in the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowships announced today, being awarded 31 fellowships worth a total of more than $22 million.

17 November 2010

A University of Queensland academic has released a book aimed at helping Christian women, and their counsellors, deal with domestic violence.

17 June 2010
L to R: Professor Hugh Possingham, Mr Brian Sherman AM (Sherman Foundation), Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General, Dr Ian Ball and Mr Matt Watts

The designers of conservation planning software that helped rezone the Great Barrier Reef have been recognised with the prestigious Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

21 August 2009

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding more than $800,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

23 September 2008

A University of Queensland researcher has shed light on how religion can be a help or a hindrance to women who are victims of domestic abuse.

29 June 2006

Has anyone ever told you during a conversation: “Stop, that`s too much information?” Well University of Queensland psychologists have discovered just how much too much information actually is.

15 February 2005

The number of Queensland women undergoing mastectomies has decreased by a third since the introduction of breast cancer screening programs, according to a University of Queensland study.

1 September 1998

Julie Webb has not let blindness prevent her from becoming one of the top achieving medallists of the 63 students awarded University of Queensland medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 18 and May...

15 May 1998

First-year engineering students watched as roofs buckled during a hands-on research project at the University.

3 November 1997