Australia is spending $31 million a year importing a critical blood product used to treat a range of neurological, hematological and immunological disorders.

5 October 2012

Anthropologists from The University of Queensland’s School of Social Science are investigating coal seam gas disputes in the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland.

18 September 2012
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh

Australia will have a stronger role in global efforts to address major diseases like cancer and diabetes following a $50 million gift, the biggest donation of its kind in the nation’s history.

27 July 2009
Justice Roslyn Atkinson (left) conference conveners Professor David Trigger and Michael Williams

Queensland judicial officers have participated in a workshop concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the law in Queensland held recently at UQ.

29 May 2009
Professor Parton (top) and Professor Hall

Two University of Queensland scientists have been awarded National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia Fellowships valued at a total of $8 million.

28 January 2009

DNA can spell danger, and may even drive a cell to suicide, according to new research from Queensland scientists.

15 January 2009

Twenty-five years after completing his undergraduate degree (with honours) and PhD at UQ, Professor David Trigger has returned to his alma mater to help strengthen the discipline he graduated from.

13 February 2008

University of Queensland researchers are leading the field in attempts to address a critical shortfall of high quality research capacity and personnel in the resolution of native title claims.

13 February 2008

Three researchers from The University of Queensland have been recognised in the inaugural National Health and Medical Research Council Awards.

12 December 2007

An international team of Australian and Israeli researchers has discovered what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth.

18 October 2007

Eight up-and-coming University of Queensland researchers have been honoured with awards totalling $552,000 at the 2006 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards held at Brisbane Customs House.

20 September 2006

A nursing expert and honorary cancer fighter of The University of Queensland have won prestigious Fulbright scholarships.

28 March 2006

A UQ project to find and study the genes that control whether an embryo develops as a male or a female has attracted $720,000 funding in the latest Federal Government round.

31 October 2002

A University of Queensland researcher has put forward a new model to explain the unique granite formations of the Himalayan mountains.

21 June 2002

Dr David Crompton, from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland, is helping to break new ground in the treatment of Vietnam veterans suffering war-related trauma.

5 June 1998

University of Queensland researchers have helped identify a lipid (fat) inside cells which triggers a severe chain of events in some people.

4 March 1998