A private Australian investor will back biomedical engineering research at the University of Queensland with funding of $4.7 million over two years.

5 November 1999

A PhD study of Cold War events during the Kennedy era has won a 26-year-old University of Queensland student an assistant professorship at a prestigious American university.

29 October 1999

University of Queensland researchers have won the highest number and value of the Australian Research Council's Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (RIEF) grants for 2000.

27 October 1999

The University of Queensland's Solar Racing Team is confident the most technologically advanced SunShark yet is a serious line-honours contender in the open class of the 3010km World Solar Challenge which begins on October 17.

12 October 1999

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

Completing a dual degree gives graduates a competitive edge, according to Adrian Seet the University of Queensland's inaugural Graduate of the Year, who holds engineering and Japanese language qualifications.

18 August 1999

The next Rugby World Cup is expected to be the scene of just as many clashes off the field as on as English clubs recruit the world's best players, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

7 May 1999

An invention by University of Queensland researchers which improves magnetic resonance imaging is earning about $1 million a year for the University.

30 April 1999

Whether it is perusing previously top secret documents about John F Kennedy in Boston or using state-of-the-art isotope analysis equipment in China, the world is a postgraduate's oyster thanks to new University of Queensland travel awards.

31 March 1999

Four University of Queensland students and their soccer-playing robots have collected two of eight awards on offer while representing Australia at one of the world's major robotic championships in Japan this month.

17 March 1999

Four University of Queensland students and their soccer-playing robots will represent Australia at one of the world's major robotic championships in Japan in early March.

1 March 1999

Jim Donohoe's first-class honours in agricultural science at the University of Queensland, an Australian Postgraduate Award and the Ben Brown Memorial Medal followed a secondary schooling in which he says he "didn't do well at all".

12 January 1999