A woman holding a metal rod, with a man in suit looking on.

A Brisbane startup company founded on University of Queensland technology to monitor the health of electricity network transformers has been acquired by French multinational Schneider Electric in a multi-million-dollar deal.

5 April 2022
CEP winners

Benevolence has paid off for a group of UQ business/law students who have been recognised for helping national charity Youngcare boost its social media presence.

25 August 2015

A study published in 2014 found Queensland was relatively safe from the threat of a devastating tsunami, but southern states on the east coast might not be so lucky.

30 July 2015
Queensland would escape a devastating tsunami but our southern neighbours could be at risk. Image source: iStock

Queensland is relatively safe from the threat of a devastating tsunami but our southern neighbours on the east coast may not be so lucky, a recent study has found.

27 August 2014
Chancellor Mr John Story presents 2013 Miracle Worker awards to group winners from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. (<i>Back from left:</i> Sally Clark, Christine McCoy, Heidi Hood, Erin Zielke, Bianca Ohlson, Holly Dennis. <i>Front from left:</i> Kaylene Power, Chloe Burton, Melinda Conlan, Jane Fisher, Rachelle Croton.)

Forty-seven University of Queensland (UQ) professional staff members have been recognised as “Miracle Workers”.

30 August 2013

60 University of Queensland (UQ) professional staff members have been recognised as “Miracle Workers” at a special ceremony today, August 27.

27 August 2012

An Australian earthquake expert says it will be years before tsunami warnings can be made accurate enough to avoid unnecessary evacuations or alerts.

12 April 2012

The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s best universities to work for according to a survey of Australian university staff.

10 January 2011

New, more efficient and durable materials for use in solar energy applications is the focus of Dr Chenghua Sun from UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

28 September 2010

While popular with school leavers, the annual "Schoolies" celebrations on the Gold Coast can be a source of fear for parents.

28 April 2010

Current earthquake prediction methods may need to be revised in the wake of the recent Haiti and Asian earthquakes and tsunami.

14 January 2010
Image of Australian tectonic boundary (red line). The two area's circled are hypothetical hot-spots which if a earthquake occurred at could cause a tsunami that would threaten the Australian east coast.

The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related.

8 October 2009

University of Queensland researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy.

29 May 2008

Two large earthquakes have occurred in quick succession in Sumatra, Western Indonesia, only months after University of Queensland researchers publicly identified the area as a high-risk zone for seismic activity.

27 February 2008

Researchers from UQ’s Earth Systems Science Computational Centre (ESSCC) who were able to predict a series of three large Sumatran earthquakes that occurred in September, will present their ground-breaking research at the Fall Meeting of the...

3 December 2007

A team of Australian and Chinese scientists have found the first observed evidence for "universality" in a paper to be published in the prestigious Nature Physics journal next month.

19 June 2007

Adolescents with Asperger syndrome are sought for a University of Queensland psychology project.

20 April 2007

A researcher from The University of Queensland is seeking to explain what the drawings of children, who have been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, can tell us about their behaviour.

17 May 2005

The chief executive and founder of an Australian world-leading computer and software company will receive an honorary doctorate at a University of Queensland graduation ceremony on December 7.

3 December 1998