A University of Queensland graduate has reversed the brain drain by returning from NASA to work on air-breathing engines known as scramjets in Brisbane, Australia.

15 February 2006

The University of Queensland is making copies of December graduation speeches available at a new podcasting website.

9 December 2005

University of Queensland scientists will fly a baby rocket at Woomera, South Australia in early October this year to test new systems ahead of next year’s full-scale scramjet engine experimental flights.

14 September 2004

University of Queensland research into reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could add $25 billion to Queensland’s economy.

16 February 2004

The revenue potential of hydrogen-based energy and the latest developments in hydrogen research will be the focus of a workshop to be held in Brisbane later this month.

25 August 2003

The recovery of the successful HyShot™ II experiment still hangs in the balance after an intensive University of Queensland ground search did not locate the payload in the South Australian desert this month.

1 May 2003

Letters written over almost 30 years between three famous Australian women authors have been lovingly compiled into a book by a UQ researcher.

3 December 2001

A British scramjet engine belonging to QinetiQ (formerly the bulk of the MOD's Defence Evaluation & Research Agency) is to be tested during the "HyShot" flight tests in the Australian desert in October.

17 September 2001

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to make the business of flight more efficient by significantly reducing drag, work which has implications for vehicles from aeroplanes to space craft.

26 March 2001

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

New experimental equipment at the University of Queensland could help miners unlock methane gas resources worth $30 billion.

16 July 1999

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 will host the State final of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Minds, an annual event which this year has attracted a record 647 schools.

26 June 1998

Julie Webb has not let blindness prevent her from becoming one of the top achieving medallists of the 63 students awarded University of Queensland medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 18 and May...

15 May 1998

A University of Queensland researcher is studying the use of algae and sea grasses as potential biological indicators of the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

13 February 1998

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded $1.13 million for cancer research next year - almost half of the Queensland Cancer Fund's 1998 allocation.

19 December 1997

The 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 1997

The Down Syndrome Research Program of the Schonell Special Education Research Centre at the University of Queensland will celebrate its 20th anniversary this weekend

19 September 1997