The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.
23 November 1998Anthropologist Garrick Hitchcock's links with a remote village in the swampy lowlands of south-western Papua New Guinea (PNG) are likely to last much longer than his PhD research.
17 November 1998Two University of Queensland engineers will receive the State's top engineering awards at a Brisbane function on Friday, October 30
26 October 1998Field work by University of Queensland marine research staff and students will be a breeze with the acquisition of a new research vessel in October.
21 September 1998Delegates at an international conference in Brisbane this month will learn how Queensland's Tawny Frogmouth Owl and the humble Sandlance fish hold clues to the complexities of human binocular vision.
15 September 1998Chair of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Professor Vicki Sara will be guest speaker at one of two University of Queensland graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on Friday, August 7.
6 August 1998The University of Queensland's national dominance of two key outcomes of higher education has been independently recognised with a coveted national award.
23 July 1998Australia is in a 'wonderfully competitive position' to develop the next great leap forward in computation, the quantum computer, according to a University of Queensland researcher.
28 May 1998One of Australia's most distinguished plant scientists Dr Marshall Davidson (Hal) Hatch, AM, will address nearly 200 graduates at a University of Queensland ceremony in Mayne Hall on Wednesday, May 20 at 6pm.
19 May 1998The University of Queensland's new media studies major got off to a flying start this semester with students benefiting from a constant flow of top speakers.
7 May 1998Two sophisticated robots called 'Kangabot' and 'Wombot' have represented Australia at one of the world's major robotics championships in Osaka this month.
18 March 1998University of Queensland researchers have helped identify a lipid (fat) inside cells which triggers a severe chain of events in some people.
4 March 1998University of Queensland researchers and graduates are playing an important role in the design of the Sydney Olympic venues, reflecting well on the quality of Queensland architectural design
28 February 1998The director of the hit movie Babe will address students as part of a new media studies major at the University of Queensland.
16 February 1998Research at Heron Island on the world's fastest growing abalone is likely to spawn new employment opportunities in another tropical region - at Broome in Western Australia.
5 February 1998One of the world's best-equipped laboratories for manufacturing magnetic resonance probes has moved into commercial premises in Brisbane.
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