A koala, specially bred as part of a University of Queensland-led conservation project, could turn around the fate of endangered koala colonies along Australia’s east coast.
29 March 2022
The winners of the 2020 UQ Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning have been announced and celebrated at a ceremony held at Customs House.
16 March 2021
A prehistoric croc measuring more than five metres long – dubbed the ‘swamp king’ – ruled south eastern Queensland waterways only a few million years ago.
22 December 2020
The University of Queensland’s annual Teaching and Learning Awards have tonight celebrated excellence, creativity and innovation.
28 October 2019
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
Internationally acclaimed journalist Peter Greste has been awarded an Australian Press Council Press Freedom Medal in Sydney today (Thursday 3 May).
3 May 2018
Do you know the difference between freezing wombat sperm and koala sperm?
7 June 2017
A $1.8 million partnership between The University of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology and Dreamworld will see the Gold Coast theme park’s zoological department used as living koala genome bank to save the threatened species.
21 September 2016.jpg?itok=TOgl77vC "Bridie Schultz")
University of Queensland research into the chilled storage of koala semen has major implications for the assisted breeding and genetic diversity of captive and wild populations.
28 June 2016
Australia’s critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats might not know it yet, but researchers from The University of Queensland are working on a wee solution to their population problems.
6 January 2016
Scientists have gained a better understanding of severe dental problem in bilbies and how to treat them by using advanced CT scans and 3D printed models.
19 December 2013
Crucial knowledge on how Queensland koalas adapt to heat, cope with habitat loss and transmit common diseases will be the focus of five research projects.
11 June 2013
The impossible became the possible with the birth of four baby echidnas over the past two months at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast.
15 November 2012
The world’s first artificial insemination of crocodiles is one step closer thanks to a novel project between The University of Queensland (UQ) and a central Queensland farmer.
28 August 2012
Staff, alumni and students associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Australia Day awards.
27 January 2009UQ technology which helps train the next generation of veterinarians in a virtual environment was recognised at a recent tertiary education conference in Singapore.
1 February 2008Camryn Allen has barely finished her PhD but is already planning her trip back to UQ to continue her koala research.
31 October 2007An endangered mouse-like marsupial from central Australia has been found to run more than 30 kilometres in one day while in heat.
6 March 2007Weighing a couple of tonnes and with jaws that can kill, the hippopotamus is about to open up and say aaah for science.
27 February 2007UQ scientists today unveiled koala joeys produced by artificial insemination (AI) as part of the development of the world’s first koala sperm bank.
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