Air Vice-Marshal Julie Hammer CSC has been named The University of Queensland’s 12th Alumnus of the Year.

17 September 2003

Local Brisbane schools won three out of the five events at the largest robotics competition for primary and high school students ever held in Queensland.

12 September 2003

Bone and joint disease is an important cause of chronic pain in the general community and is a significant cause of chronic disability in older Australians, according to two studies recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

27 August 2003

The University of Queensland has appointed commercial law specialist Professor Charles Rickett as the new Head of the TC Beirne School of Law.

20 August 2003

Australian and World experts in reef ecosystems have declared Australia will run the risk of losing its Iconic Great Barrier Reef unless measures are taken now. In an article to appear in the internationally regarded Science magazine, a group of...

14 August 2003

Brisbane steeplechaser Peter Nowill is a late inclusion into the Australian Athletics team for this month's World Championships in Paris.

7 August 2003

University of Queensland researchers have developed a new drug to modify blood clotting that does not have the side effects of existing medications. The researchers have received venture capital and government support to help commercialise their...

24 July 2003

A masterstroke collaboration between a Brisbane kindergarten and a university art museum has culminated in a new book launched in mid-July this year.

24 July 2003

One of the world’s leading immunologists will speak at a free University of Queensland public lecture next month.

2 July 2003

THE University of Queensland has appointed Professor Peter Gray as the inaugural director of the $50 million Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).

27 June 2003

The University of Queensland has offered its thanks and best wishes to University of Queensland Press (UQP) General Manager Laurie Muller, who will retire on July 11.

6 June 2003

The world’s forefront scientists simulating earth processes are meeting in Brisbane today and tomorrow to discuss a collaborative venture to construct a solid earth simulator or virtual observatory using advanced supercomputer simulation models.

5 June 2003

The export trade in Australian native flowers and foliage from Queensland is expected to grow into a $60 million industry in a decade through research and development programs in a new centre at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus.

30 May 2003

The University of Queensland will award what is believed to be Queensland’s first Doctor of Technology degree at a graduation ceremony tomorrow (May 27) at the UQ Centre, St Lucia, at 5pm.

26 May 2003

A number of members of The University of Queensland community were honoured with Centenary Medals, announced by Prime Minister John Howard last month.

20 May 2003

A University of Queensland virologist, who recently led a Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome (SARS) investigation in China, will present a public lecture at UQ tomorrow (Thursday, May 8).

7 May 2003

An 1877 edition of Alfred Tennyson’s Vivien will be one of the many collectible items for sale at The University of Queensland Alumni Association’s rare book auction on Thursday, April 24.

15 April 2003

A new international research collaboration signed today will have significant implications in the development of therapeutics for human medicine.

9 April 2003

UniQuest Pty Ltd has won three prestigious Commercialisation Excellence Awards at the Commercialisation Forum and Fair of Ideas held recently in Sydney.

3 April 2003

The President of Ireland, Her Excellency President Mary McAleese, received an honorary doctorate at a special University of Queensland graduation ceremony today (Wednesday, March 12).

12 March 2003