UQ's new Laureate Fellows - Professor Alan Rowan, left, and Professor Paul Burn

The University of Queensland has received $24.5 million in the competitive Australian Research Council grants announced in Canberra today, securing a greater share of the pool than any other university.

6 May 2016
Screening for bacteria just got speedier

Chicken meat and other foods will be able to be screened for bacteria even faster and more effectively than ever, thanks to breakthrough nanobiotechnology research.

14 January 2013
Else Shepherd is a pioneer and role model in breaking through the barriers to women's professional acceptance particularly in “non-traditional” fields such as engineering.

Visionary philanthropist Graeme Wood and a role model for women in non-traditional fields such as engineering, Else Shepherd AM, will each receive honorary doctorates during UQ's July 18–22 graduation period.

13 July 2011
Ms Patel at the University of Washington

Dhwani Patel had already come a long way when she arrived in Brisbane from Mumbai in early 2007.

20 January 2010

The University of Queensland has honoured its outstanding teachers and education programs at its 9th UQ Excellence in Teaching & Learning Awards at Customs House tonight.

2 November 2009

Next-generation approaches in disease detection and prevention are being developed by biotechnologists at The University of Queensland (UQ) in a bid to curb the influence of a changing climate and sprawling population.

27 October 2009

UQ scientists and academics are available for expert comment on the emerging swine flu pandemic. Expertise ranges from the science of virus, to the medical implications, to the tourism and economic implications.

30 April 2009

The University of Queensland is leading a national drive to improve the teaching, learning and job prospects of Australia's 26 university-based undergraduate biotechnology programs.

21 November 2006

A University of Queensland team has challenged the nation’s corporate and political leaders to urgently boost investment in science and technology. The experts warn that the alternative to greater investment is the collapse of the “house of cards”.

27 April 2006

Australian diagnostics company Panbio is able to identify rare and dangerous diseases more efficiently by using antibodies it has licensed from The University of Queensland.

11 November 2004

UQ is strengthening its ties with two of India’s premier universities through biotechnology and student exchanges.

9 July 2004

The University of Queensland has been awarded $350,000 funding for two new projects to benchmark teaching of biotechnology in Australian universities and for teaching large classes.

2 January 2001

A Brisbane research team has made a major advance in the fundamental understanding of how the embryo grows in the crucial first few days of life.

19 June 1997