Contracts worth $2.5 million have been signed for state-of-the-art information technology equipment for the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus opening in February 1999.

16 November 1998

Children with autism educated at mainstream schools have reduced autism levels and a better quality of life as adults, according to a University of Queensland study.

30 October 1998

University of Queensland Gatton College researchers have developed a prototype of an early warning device for heat load among cattle.

1 October 1998

Finalists from 78 schools will attend the State finals of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Minds at the University of Queensland in Brisbane on Sunday, September 13.

9 September 1998

The battle to beat skin cancer is now being fought in the prams, pushchairs and pre-schools of Queensland.

19 August 1998

Teaching is Susan Hopkins' life - when she's not teaching people as an associate lecturer at the University of Queensland, she is teaching horses.

7 August 1998

Information about University of Queensland subjects and new course offerings in 1999 will be available to prospective students, parents, teachers and careers advisers at TSXPO 1998.

2 July 1998

High schools will receive application forms during term three for current Year 11 students wishing to attend the popular annual Leo Howard Vacation School at the University of Queensland.

26 June 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

Public transport access for South-East Queenslanders has declined by three percent in the past five years, according to a University of Queensland study.

5 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

Fragmentation of the Northern Territory Yanyuwa community by the cattle industry and the wider effects of European contact have resulted in women taking a greater role in public song performance, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

12 May 1998

A University of Queensland art historian has been selected to edit thousands of often controversial letters by a central figure in Australia's contemporary art movement.

5 May 1998

More than 1000 primary and secondary students from throughout Queensland are expected to visit the University of Queensland for National Science Week activities from May 2 to 10.

23 April 1998

The University of Queensland's Prentice Centre will spearhead plans for a world record attempt for the highest number of people accessing the Internet in the one location at the same time during an international conference this month.

8 April 1998

Poetry engraved on palm leaves was the way some Indonesians retain links with their cultural past, according to a University of Queensland academic.

11 March 1998

Baptist minister and John Mark Ministries Melbourne director Reverend Dr Rowland Croucher will be guest speaker at the University's 1998 commencement service on Sunday, March 8.

16 February 1998

From this time forward I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people whose rights and liberties I respect and whose laws I will uphold and obey. With those words English-born Dr Ian Whittington became Australia's newest citizen on January...

10 February 1998

University of Queensland Architecture Department researchers have developed the State's first shade guidelines for young children, public pools and sporting fields.

19 January 1998

The recent arrival of Dr Rod Straw at the University of Queensland may be good news for human cancer sufferers as well as for his regular patients, cats and dogs.

7 January 1998