Students graduating at The University of Queensland today will have the added honour as the last cohort to come under the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences banner.

1 December 2008

UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Innovative Global Health Research.

29 October 2008

A $100 million Australian National Fabrication Facility launched this month in Canberra includes a Queensland node, based at The University of Queensland.

21 October 2008

The University of Queensland today received $31 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grants, confirming its position as the state’s top research institution.

16 October 2008

Learner-centred, web-based video recordings and interactions are part of a new elearning initiative being developed at UQ through an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) grant.

6 October 2008

University of Queensland research is developing a new class of efficient photocatalysts that can drive wastewater purification using the power of the sun.

25 September 2008

UQ researcher Dr Shizhang Qiao is working on developing a new self-assembly technology to synthesise new nanoparticles for selective separation of biomolecules.

24 September 2008

The University of Queensland (UQ) has promoted a researcher renowned for his work with minute matter in order to scale up its global research networks.

23 September 2008

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding more than $800,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

23 September 2008

Dementia often robs spouses of quality time together but an innovative UQ project hopes to find ways to reclaim it.

23 September 2008

The University of Queensland will lead a large-scale Australia-China partnership on clean energy technologies, targeting clean coal, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen production and energy storage.

17 August 2008

The University of Queensland, the Australian sugar industry and a Korean research force have teamed up with the goal of ‘greening’ the global chemical industry.

29 July 2008

For the majority of students the thought of starting a university degree is challenging enough, but for Cherese Cox it also included relocating and juggling time between work, study and her two young children.

17 July 2008

Early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease is in the sights of University of Queensland (UQ) scientists who have secured $1.6 million for new research.

18 June 2008

Malaria and dengue fever will be the early targets of new trans-Pacific research using minuscule “barcodes” to detect disease.

18 June 2008

Applications are now open for UQ staff and students to submit their entrepreneurial ideas or early stage research projects for UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer competition, which offers $40,000 in cash prizes to move innovative ideas forward.

3 June 2008

University of Queensland researcher Professor Mark Kendall has been awarded the 2008 Amgen Medical Research Award for his excellence in translational medical research studies.

3 June 2008

Improved foods for elderly patients with swallowing difficulties are a potential outcome from a new industry linkage grant awarded to a team of University of Queensland researchers.

2 June 2008

A dynamo of UQ research and commercialisation is lending his energy to a new charity for child survivors of last month’s earthquake in southwest China.

30 May 2008

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