AQC researchers working on maths equations on glass wall with gold plated fridge in foreground. Image UQ

Researchers at Queensland’s first quantum technology startup, based at UQ, are developing microscopic superconducting hardware critical to scaling up future quantum computer technology.

30 October 2023

A social enterprise that trains and employs young data analysts with autism has been recognised at The University of Queensland’s 2023 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards.

24 August 2023
Diagram of a flux capacitor

Physicists have invented a flux capacitor and, while it might not run a ‘Back to the Future’ inspired time machine, they say it will have important applications in communication technology and quantum computing.

28 May 2018
The competition seeks playable, fun computer games that explore some of the themes from quantum mechanics

Could you design an electronic game inspired by quantum physics?

21 September 2017

A team of Australian scientists has produced a precision laser device that creates an accurate international standard for temperature.

13 October 2015
Dane Bird-Smith, Aisling Scott, Caitlin Cronin and Tom Gamble (not pictured) will compete at the World University Games

Four University of Queensland students will compete at the 2015 World Summer University Games in South Korea in July.

23 June 2015
An artist’s impression of a ring of interacting absorbers tuned correctly to absorb light particles (photons) at much faster rate than any one absorber alone.(c) 2014 Simon Benjamin

An international team of theoretical quantum physicists is working on a way of absorbing light and storing it as energy.

22 August 2014

The University of Queensland has welcomed 16 new Future Fellows as part of a major Australian Research Council funding announcement today.

23 July 2014

The University of Queensland (UQ) physicists are on a quest to build the world’s most accurate thermometer.

11 October 2012

A physicist from The University of Queensland (UQ) has helped make a breakthrough discovery that will turn quantum computers from a theory into a reality.

11 November 2010

UQ Business School students have proved that business can cross cultural and even geographical lines.

2 September 2010

Having a short group discussion about why a negative stereotype is invalid is enough to overcome that stereotype and improve performance, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

6 July 2010

CEO Robin Levison has a comfortable bed, good food, and a secure home, but will give it all up for a night sleeping rough on the streets of Brisbane

16 June 2010

Ipswich residents will have an opportunity to help shape healthy cities for the future, not only in Ipswich, but internationally, with a study launching tomorrow night.

21 April 2010
At team of UQ commerce students has placed third in an international trading competition

At team of commerce students from The University of Queensland has placed third in an international trading competition held in Canada earlier in the week.

23 February 2010

UQ Business School expert Alastair Tombs and co-researcher Shelagh Ferguson (University of Otago) pose new questions about why our clothes are so important to us.

7 December 2009

Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.

5 August 2009

University of Queensland academics are available to help analyse political issues in the lead up to the State election on March 21.

23 February 2009

A new history of Australian trade unionism written by a UQ Business School academic examines changes to the movement from the 1960s until today.

28 October 2008

The University of Queensland School of Business has joined forces with the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) at Macquarie University, Sydney, on a project to drive the sustainability agenda in Australian...

19 December 2006