State Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry John McVeigh has completed a PhD from The University of Queensland's School of Agriculture and Food Sciences.

The University of Queensland congratulates the State Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry John McVeigh on receiving a PhD from the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences.

12 December 2012
Ray Collins speaks to Gayndah Packers General Manager, Mr
Barry Scott,

The University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Ray Collins has been appointed to chair a $35 million program to boost Australia’s regional food and seafood industries.

19 August 2009

Agribusiness students from The University of Queensland took their skills to a global market last week when they headed to Hong Kong to pitch a marketing campaign to international companies.

15 October 2008

The University of Queensland has topped the nation in the prestigious 2007 national university teaching awards, reasserting its dominance as the home of Australia’s most-awarded tertiary teachers.

8 October 2007

UQ researchers have shown that stingrays, once thought to be colour-blind, may be capable of seeing in colour.

10 April 2007

Twenty-nine students from The University of Queensland, Gatton Campus will fly to six different Asian destinations in the coming weeks as part of their Bachelor of Agribusiness degrees.

12 September 2006

University of Queensland (UQ) students are departing for all corners of Asia and the Middle East this week, charged with the job of investigating new export opportunities for Australian produce.

20 September 2004

The last place you would think of finding a potential postgraduate student to study the behaviour of sharks would be in Germany.

6 July 2004

A fifth-generation member of a cattle family in Queensland’s Gulf country, mature-age student Julie Clarke, is the top agribusiness achiever at the University of Queensland Gatton Campus for 2003.

5 December 2003

A team of UQ Gatton agribusiness students has just returned to Australia after evaluating the potential for shipping Australian mangoes to Taiwan. The resulting report will be part of a north Queensland export company`s five-year industry...

5 December 2003

Agribusiness students from the University of Queensland’s Gatton campus have notched up a campus first with global marketing assignments to assess the potential for food exports.

4 December 2003

A growing interest in the health and nutritional benefits of dairy products in Vietnam could open up marketing opportunities for Australian exporters.

22 November 2002

The development of new value-added beef products for the Asian region has been enhanced by a Singapore market assessment by a group of agribusiness students from UQ Gatton.

20 November 2002

Australian macadamia nut consumption in China is on the increase, judging by a market study by a group of UQ Gatton agribusiness students.

19 November 2002

Tough times in the bush demand innovative approaches to marketing, according to UQ Gatton Associate Professors Ray Collins and Tony Dunne.

5 November 2002

The University of Queensland Library will celebrate the gift of Mr Ken Wilder and Mrs Jean Wilder of a painting by Ray Crooke. The Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay will unveil the painting today at 11.15 in the Fryer Library Reading Room.

5 August 2002

A benchmark agribusiness course at Gatton College boasts a 100 percent job rate for graduates and the chance to work with real commercial projects.

4 November 1999

Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage Senator Robert Hill will address the first international conference on Sensory Processing of the Aquatic Environment at Heron Island, on the Great Barrier Reef, this week.

22 March 1999

Students from the University of Queensland's Gatton College will graduate at a ceremony at Gatton College's gymnasium on Friday, December 12.

9 December 1997

Australian persimmon growers have developed a $2 million export opportunity with Singapore thanks largely to a marketing strategy devised at the University of Queensland's Gatton College.

19 November 1997