The University of Queensland is to launch what is believed to be Australia's first postgraduate degree in international economics and finance - a reflection of the increasing internationalisation of trade and industry.
18 December 1997The University of Queensland and the University of Newcastle have won a $1.3 million contract to undertake a study of Queensland's Leading Schools Program over the next three years.
15 December 1997The University of Queensland has attracted 10 new fellowships in the 1998 Australian Research Council (ARC) fellowships round, the third highest number of fellowships funded nationally.
10 December 1997The University of Queensland has been awarded the second highest number of Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarships (OPRS) given nationally for 1998.
9 December 1997Tests have confirmed that a University of Queensland staff member has an illness linked to recent exposure to Legionella bacteria.
9 December 1997Winner of the 1997 New South Wales Premier's Book of the Year award Robert Drewe will address graduates at a University of Queensland ceremony on Monday, December 8.
5 December 1997One of Australia's oldest known animals, the musky rat-kangaroo, is the subject of a University of Queensland study which may shed light on links between kangaroos and possums.
3 December 1997The University of Queensland has maintained its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the fourth highest number of new large project grants, in 1998 allocations from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
27 November 1997University of Queensland archaeologists are testing a radically new hypothetical model of Mayan political organisation in the famous archaeological site of Copan in the Honduras.
26 November 1997A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded one of only eight national prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) 1998 special investigator awards.
26 November 1997A record number of five academics has been chosen from 27 candidates for the University of Queensland's 1997 Awards for Excellence in Teaching, worth $10,000 each.
20 November 1997When Rachael Melville graduates in medicine from the University of Queensland on December 5, she would like to thank a few people, including her family, her school guidance officer and administrators of the University's UQ-Link program.
12 November 1997Environmentally sustainable sewerage systems - including toilets which separate urine from faeces, and weekly collection of hermetically sealed waste - are the way of the future, according to a University of Queensland waste treatment expert.
10 November 1997A new $600,000 laboratory at the University of Queensland is helping the world's mining companies to date rock samples and plan exploration programs.
7 November 1997A University of Queensland researcher has received a four-year $3.9million grant to establish an Australian arm of an international bowel cancer registry.
3 November 1997First-year engineering students watched as roofs buckled during a hands-on research project at the University.
3 November 1997It's not every day you see an international best-seller on the history of economics.
29 October 1997Globalisation makes international competitiveness the only important benchmark for universities, according to the University of Queensland's incoming Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Paul Greenfield.
29 October 1997Professor Tom Keightley Ewer - the Veterinary Science Faculty's first post-war dean - died on October 3, aged 86.
21 October 1997The University of Queensland's Academic Board has approved principles for the widespread adoption of flexible delivery in teaching, in a concerted effort to 'match learning objectives with student needs'.
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