The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the third highest number and amount of new grant allocations nationally for 2001 from the National Health and Medical...
21 November 2000Queensland biotechnology research has been given a major boost with today's announcement of substantial funding for a world class structural biology facility.
31 October 2000A new radar system will increase safety in open-cut coal mines by detecting possible locations of rock failure. The system can detect rock movements as small as one millimetre that are often precursors to wall collapse.
25 October 2000University of Queensland researchers are providing an insurance policy to underpin the survival of a Gold Coast glow worm colony and a surrounding multi-million dollar eco-tourism industry.
4 October 2000Nearly 40 years after researchers first asked how some retinal nerve cells could detect the direction of motion independently of the rest of the brain, a team of researchers from The University of Queensland and the Australian National University...
29 September 2000Four eminent Chinese geoscientists visiting The University of Queensland (UQ) have predicted a high likelihood for strong earthquakes in Japan, Korea and surrounding regions early this century.
28 August 2000The new joint national Centre for Rural and Regional Innovation (CRRI) has moved into the second stage of its feasibility study with a program of custom-designed courses to be offered across rural and regional Australia.
14 August 2000In what is believed to be a world first, UQ researchers are using advanced computer modelling to work out why air traffic controllers make mistakes.
10 April 2000
