Endometriosis linked to premature and early menopause

Women who suffer from endometriosis have an increased risk of premature and early menopause, both naturally and surgically, UQ researchers have found.

1 May 2025
A woman in pain sitting on her bed clutching her stomach.

Satellites a solution for tracking coral reef health

Satellites orbiting Earth offer great potential to better understand the world’s reefs over time beyond the sites visited by researchers, UQ research has found.

30 April 2025
Divers with their heads out of very blue ocean water

A passion for Italian food and entrepreneurship has proven to be a successful recipe for 2007 UQ Business School graduate Ben Cleary.

10 March 2011

Reports this week that celebrities are earning up to $10,000 per tweet on Micro-blogging site Twitter has caught the attention of ordinary social media users who are now asking how they can make money too.

9 March 2011
UQ's premier grade rugby side sings the team song after a good win last season

UQ's top rugby team will play Sydney University in the Buildcorp Australian Club Championships later this month to determine which of the two clubs is the country's best.

9 March 2011

The National Health and Medical Research Council has awarded $5.24 million to a five-year research project that aims to improve mental health treatments for developmentally disabled young people.

9 March 2011
From just 18 randomly selected white tiles (representing measurements) out of a potential 576, the researchers were able to estimate the behaviour of a quantum device (illustrated by the yellow section). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi

An international team has removed a major obstacle to engineer quantum systems that will play a key role in the computers, communication networks, and even biomedical devices of the future.

8 March 2011
Geraldine Kris at the UQ Young Achievers camp

Eighty-eight deserving Year 11 students travelled from all over Queensland recently to attend The University of Queensland's Young Achievers residential camp in Brisbane.

8 March 2011

The University of Queensland (UQ) has sent out an open invitation to its community to come celebrate its ninth annual Diversity Week with five days of activities from 23-27 May 2011.

6 March 2011

Wealthy entrepreneurs and business leaders who are less risk-averse and more nimble than governments will help solve the world’s biggest issues in coming decades, according to two philanthropy experts.

4 March 2011

More than 40 new “recycling stations” will be installed around The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus by 2012, after the launch of a new public place recycling campaign today.

4 March 2011

A world expert in using computational science to study disease is joining The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience after receiving a $4 million fellowship to study chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancers.

4 March 2011
Ken Curwen,  Michael Cuthill,  Vi Jorgensen,  Erroll Elliott,  Christine Page,  Jenny Greaves,  Ruth Thomson,  Gordon Timbs,  Bill Steentsma,  Denis Beasley,  Kevin Murphy

Ipswich’s SeniorNet Association, which offers IT training for seniors by seniors, is now being hosted by The University of Queensland.

3 March 2011