A $13.7 million project to unlock digital health data on debilitating diseases could reduce hospitalisations, tackle complications and cut health costs.
28 June 2023.jpg?itok=gNHEdohc "Water in the Great Barrier Reef was much dirtier eight thousand years ago. Image: Gregory Webb")
A group of Australian scientists have for the first time unravelled the history of climate change upheaval on the Great Barrier Reef over the past eight millennia. Led by University of Queensland graduate Dr Marcos Salas-Saavedra, the team analysed...
30 May 2022
All eyes will be on Glasgow over the first two weeks of November as world leaders meet at the most important international climate summit in the past decade.
2 November 2021
Australia’s COVIDSafe app needs to be faster and have higher uptake rates to be effective as the nation’s digital contact tracing solution, according to a working paper released by The University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research.
5 June 2020
University of Queensland experts are available to comment on issues relating to World Water Day on March 22. Journalists can contact the experts below or search by topic or name at UQ Experts.
18 March 2019
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
10 October 2018
The University of Queensland has a range of experts available to talk to media in relation to World Environment Day on 5 June and World Oceans Day on 8 June.
1 June 2018
The continued survival of one of Australia’s rarest rodents, the water mouse, could hinge on significantly increasing the size of development buffer zones around their habitats.
25 January 2018
Partnerships between government and Indigenous stakeholders are needed to overcome a lack of functioning ‘health hardware’ in remote Australian communities - such as taps, toilets and showers, a University of Queensland researcher says.
27 July 2017
The next generation of scientists who will expand the boundaries of biomedical imaging to improve healthcare will be trained in an $8.5 million research hub to be established at The University of Queensland.
15 June 2017
New cancer-fighting drugs and devices could emerge from The University of Queensland, thanks to a research program comparing cancers in pet animals and humans in a state-of-the-art imaging facility opened today.
28 March 2017
A University of Queensland study has identified Springfield, Ipswich, Boonah, Beaudesert, Esk and Jimboomba as some of south-east Queensland’s most intense areas of thunderstorm activity.
20 December 2016
The University of Queensland’s leadership on water solutions will be heard by 3500 global delegates at the World Water Congress and Exhibition this week.
10 October 2016
The United Nations’ sustainable development agenda is ambitious but complex, and Australia will need to take a creative approach to it.
13 September 2016
A new 500-bay casual carpark has opened for staff, students and visitors at The University of Queensland St Lucia campus – but you’d be forgiven for missing it at first glance.
18 July 2016
Mental health, sexual identity and religion – topics often considered taboo – will be the focus of discussions during orientation activities at two residential colleges at The University of Queensland.
24 February 2016
University of Queensland researchers have found physical evidence in Great Barrier Reef corals of a little-known, long-term climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation – discovered and named only in the 1990s – describes...
13 January 2014Australia's 'brainiest' student will be unearthed when the country's brightest young minds compete in the finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC), supported by The University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute.
25 January 2012Nina Ruzsicska from Darwin High School has been crowned the 2011 Northern Territory Brain Bee Champion in a battle of neuroscience knowledge held in Brisbane.
19 July 2011
Final-year University of Queensland student Amy Winner sees a career in dentistry as the perfect opportunity to combine her passions for science and art.
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