University of Queensland researchers are testing the shapes of things to come ahead of planned scramjet tests in Australia over the next five years.

9 January 2007

University of Queensland researcher Dr Paul Meredith has been awarded a Smart State Senior Fellowship to develop new technologies to combat the world’s looming energy crisis.

11 May 2006

The HyShot™ IV experimental scramjet test has been conducted today at the Woomera range, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia at about 1.10pm local time (CDT).

30 March 2006

University of Queensland scientists believe from preliminary data that the HyShot™ III experiment was activated on March 25 and combustion occurred during the experiment.

29 March 2006

The $1.3 million HyShot™ IV experiment appears likely to be held on Thursday, March 30 at the Woomera range, 500km north of Adelaide, at about 12.30pm local time (CDT).

28 March 2006

A UQ-led scramjet experiment had a perfect liftoff at Woomera, 500km north of Adelaide, South Australia.

25 March 2006

The University of Queensland HyShot™ team is bunkered down at Woomera range this week ready for two Defence-managed experimental flights of scramjet technology scheduled for Saturday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 28.

23 March 2006

A University of Queensland graduate has reversed the brain drain by returning from NASA to work on air-breathing engines known as scramjets in Brisbane, Australia.

15 February 2006

University of Queensland rocket scientists have upgraded a key ground test facility ahead of three experimental scramjet flights in Woomera in late 2005.

9 December 2004

The hearing impaired and journalists would benefit from a smart microphone system that can extract specific sounds from noisy environments such as parties and board rooms.

15 October 2004

Twenty-one bright sparks who’ve come up with a host of inventions in areas as diverse as cervical cancer and smart microphones, are vying for a slice of $40,000 to get their ideas off the ground.

13 October 2004

Ten innovative groups battled it out at The University of Queensland last week for $125,000 in prizes.

3 November 2003

UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay`s address to the National Press Club today.

18 September 2002

Federal Health Minister Dr Michael Wooldridge has launched a new initiative, which is expected to shift resources away from hospital-based care and into the home.

4 November 1999

More than 400 scientists from around the world will converge on Brisbane in late March to hear a progress report on the Human Genome Project, an effort aimed at mapping the estimated 80,000 genes that determine each human being.

18 March 1999

The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.

23 November 1998