A University of Queensland project harnessing methane from solid waste stands to revolutionise Australia's future rubbish management.

8 December 1998

A waste fermentation plant at the University of Queensland's Gatton College, 80km west of Brisbane, presents a classic win/win situation, according to one of those primarily responsible for the project.

25 November 1998

A University of Queensland project harnessing methane from solid waste stands to revolutionise Australia's future rubbish management.

22 November 1998

Contracts worth $2.5 million have been signed for state-of-the-art information technology equipment for the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus opening in February 1999.

16 November 1998

University of Queensland researchers are developing new approaches to rehabilitating people with speech impairments due to major head trauma such as road accidents.

11 November 1998

University of Queensland researchers have revealed a neural mechanism associated with bipolar disorder (manic depression).

6 November 1998

The University of Queensland's Social and Economic Research Centre (SERC) has picked up a sizeable chunk of government, private and university contracts since its establishment last year as a specialist research consultancy

27 October 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, the University of Queensland, is working closely with international partners to solve environmental management problems around the globe.

23 October 1998

The University of Queensland is hosting its first fellows under an AusAID program to help Thai universities overcome perceived personnel shortfalls in science and engineering.

22 October 1998

The University of Queensland has streamlined the number of colours to be used in its academic dress and adopted a new system based on level of award, according to Academic Dress Committee Chair Professor Cindy Gallois.

14 October 1998

University of Queensland Gatton College researchers have developed a prototype of an early warning device for heat load among cattle.

1 October 1998

An exclusive agreement covering certain undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as research, staff development and sporting links has been forged between the University of Queensland (UQ) and a leading educational institute in Malaysia.

23 September 1998

Carolyn Anderson wants to help the community to gain maximum benefit from the UQ Ipswich campus, opening for its first student intake in February 1999.

18 September 1998

The University of Queensland has signed a $500,000 contract with communications firm ATI Australia to install a broad-band microwave link from the St Lucia campus to the UQ Ipswich campus, 40km to the west of Brisbane.

15 September 1998

Delegates 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 1998

University of Queensland senior scientific officer Lyn Beard knew she had mastered her job as an aerial observer when she stopped counting kangaroos in her sleep.

3 September 1998

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a possible mechanism predisposing babies of mothers who smoke while pregnant to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

1 September 1998

Perceptions of Australia in the Japanese media have not changed in the past 26 years with Australia still seen as a wealthy, white western nation with unique fauna, according to a University of Queensland study.

31 August 1998

University of Queensland researcher Professor Jeremy Jass has identified a third type of colon cancer.

31 August 1998

A scientific study at the University of Queensland has shown that vision really does improve when spectacles are removed

19 August 1998