Australia’s world-leading expertise in small-scale mining is being showcased to 30 emerging leaders from the African mining sector as they visit the Gladstone and Emerald regions in Central Queensland.
26 February 2019A $1.5 million gift from the Trevor and Judith St Baker Family Foundation will help electrify green technology research at The University of Queensland.
7 November 2018A landmark research study is close to a breakthrough that would turn hospital waste into a product that can be used in agriculture or water treatment.
6 August 2018Broken and dead coral will be recycled to help protect and grow the Great Barrier Reef in a collaborative project involving University of Queensland researchers.
23 July 2018The University of Queensland is set to become the first major university in the world to offset 100 per cent of its electricity usage through its own renewable energy asset.
7 June 2018Queensland data science, user-experience design and power systems experts are working to develop a world-first data platform that will harness information from potentially millions of households.
12 February 2018Australia will soon hold the record for the world’s tallest timber office building at 5 King St Brisbane, and with the help of The University of Queensland’s new research hub, wooden skyscrapers could become the norm.
23 November 2017UQ has a range of experts available to talk to media during the Queensland election campaign.
30 October 2017University of Queensland research projects to develop better batteries for renewable energy and a way of predicting crop yields from space have been funded under a joint Queensland-China scheme.
17 October 2017The Federal Government is backing a wave of investment in tidal electricity generation as experts tip that marine power will be the next big thing in renewable energy.
13 July 2017University of Queensland researchers are celebrating a combined multi-million-dollar success in the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland Fellowships scheme.
24 March 2017Transition to a low-carbon society will result in enormous demand for minerals to manufacture clean technologies, creating the need for a global resource governance framework, according to research published today.
16 March 2017An open access Water Atlas has gone online, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from eastern Australia’s Surat Basin.
9 December 2016Issues critical to communities across the world will be discussed at an international symposium in Brisbane from September 22 to 25.
20 September 2016North Queensland has some of Earth’s largest known bauxite deposits, but their potential has largely remained locked in the ground, until now.
18 August 2016Maintaining the temperature of large buildings uses a huge amount of energy, but a new system at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus is doing just this, while using a fraction of the electricity.
13 July 2016Termite guts could contribute to mining site rehabilitation and pay big dividends for the planet, thanks to University of Queensland research.
22 April 2016The University of Queensland is embracing the future of sustainable transport, installing four solar-powered electric vehicle chargers at its St Lucia and Gatton campuses.
7 April 2016Until 1997, water supplies in downtown Manila were beset with infrastructure problems such as leaks, widespread unauthorised access and contamination.
11 September 2015More than 130 University of Queensland students will take part in short and semester-length programs in the Indo-Pacific region next year.
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