UQ celebrates 50 years of the Department of Microbiology.

This week UQ is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Department of Microbiology with an alumni dinner to be addressed by an eminent scientist working on polio – a remerging disease.

3 July 2012

Chronic pain relief, the employment aspirations of recently-arrived refugees, urban water use and improved animal production are among new research projects announced today in which The University of Queensland and industry partners will collaborate.

30 June 2012

Opening ceremony of the 2012 AMSI/ANU/UQ Winter School on Geometric Partial Differential Equations (July 2-13, 2012)

25 June 2012
UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry.

Medical imaging technologies, diabetes II treatments, animal health vaccines and biomedical implants are among University of Queensland research activities to receive vital Queensland Government support, announced this week.

19 June 2012

More than 300,000 people viewed the live internet feed of the transit of Venus from telescopes at The University of Queensland's St Lucia campus in Brisbane today.

6 June 2012

Stargazers are reminded of tomorrow's once-in-a-lifetime chance to observe a rare astronomical phenomenon — the planet Venus passing across the face of the Sun.

5 June 2012

A rare astronomical event that led to Captain Cook’s exploration of Australia —The Transit of Venus — promises a spectacular feast for stargazers next month.

22 May 2012

A TEAM led by UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation has developed a comprehensive research program aimed at protecting Australia’s $450 million banana industry.

26 April 2012

Can a little bird tell us who will win in Ashgrove? Analysis of Twitter streams can provide clues to electoral outcomes, according to University of Queensland Masters research student Frances Manfield.

21 March 2012

A study by University of Queensland and international researchers has found that most of Madagascar’s unique present-day fauna may originally have arrived across long distances by air or sea.

19 March 2012