Chemical concoctions:  Students get a fun and practical lesson in chemistry by making slime at UQ’s Open Day.

Australia’s leading research chemists have thrown themselves in the mix when it comes to celebrating the 2011 International Year of Chemistry.

16 March 2011

The more humanity acidifies and warms the world’s oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs.

14 February 2011

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

8 February 2011

The first awards have been announced under a new bilateral research collaboration agreement between The University of Western Australia and The University of Queensland.

18 October 2010

A method to image human joints in motion, and improving students’ reading achievements in rural and mining communities are among UQ projects supported in round two of the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme announced today.

23 June 2010

Eleven University of Queensland researchers have been honoured as international leaders in their fields at a ceremony today.

13 April 2010

Up to 90,000 Australian Diggers who helped win World War II are now missing in Cyberspace, thanks to errors in the government-sponsored online memorial known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll.

8 April 2010

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded $945,000 funding from the Australian Solar Institute.

18 December 2009

University of Queensland researchers have received almost $2 million from the Queensland Government to lead an international alliance working on the next generation of solar cells.

8 September 2009

Promising new University of Queensland research projects have the potential to revolutionise a diversity of industries, including healthcare, security, chemical, horticulture, energy and electronics.

16 June 2009
Professor Paul Memmott receiving the Stanner Award from Professor Mick Dodson at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Photo courtesy Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Paul Memmott’s acclaimed book Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley has been recognised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, recently taking out the prestigious Stanner Award.

27 March 2009
Professor Burn

Energy researchers warn the world has only a generation to cut its consumption of fossil fuels or lose the opportunity to use them to develop ‘green’ energy for electricity generation and avoid returning to a more energy primitive era.

27 February 2009

Cheaper energy sources and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions are among the key benefits of the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which opens at The University of Queensland next week.

13 November 2008

University of Queensland researchers will be further pushing the boundaries of science thanks more than $43 million in funding announced today.

15 October 2008

Two of Australia’s leading thinkers will share their views on the hot topics of climate change and alternate energy sources next week as part of UQ’s Research Week.

19 September 2008

The University of Queensland will show why it is one of Australia’s leading research-intensive universities next week when it celebrates its annual Research Week.

18 September 2008

The University of Queensland will become a hub for some of the world’s best authors this week as part of the 2008 Brisbane Writers Festival.

16 September 2008

Eminent coral scientists have given world leaders in Bali more reason to act urgently against climate change, by producing a new report that warns coral reefs will disappear within decades if atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise.

14 December 2007

A team of UQ mining and minerals processing students have won the 2007 National Mining Games.

22 May 2007

The quality and depth of research at The University of Queensland and the quality of UQ’s research environment has been recognised with the award of six prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowships.

11 May 2006