Strategies needed to support ethnically diverse patients with hearing loss

Hearing clinics are not identifying the language needs of ethnically diverse patients with hearing loss, creating a concerning impact on their quality of care, a UQ-led study has found.

24 June 2025
A audiologist inserting a stethoscope into a elderly patient's ear

Dairy tech moves from the lab to industry

Dairy products made using precision fermentation are a step closer with Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator transferring new technology to an industry partner.

24 June 2025
a man in a white lab coat and glasses adjusts a glass cylinder surrounded by stainless steel equipment

Providing shelter this fire season might soon be a reality for Encase, when the team compete for $100,000 in the UQBS Enterprize competition this afternoon at the UQ campus at St Lucia.

16 October 2009

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies.

15 October 2009

Nostalgia and imagination are attracting people to a new niche market in tourism, but cold hard facts and plenty of analysis is what has helped two researchers from The University of Queensland write about the phenomenon with considerable success.

15 October 2009
UQ Anthropology Museum Director Dr Diana Young

The new director of UQ’s Anthropology Museum hopes the “hidden gem” under her care will become better known with researchers and the public alike.

15 October 2009
Dr Kathy Townsend prepares to release a sea turtle

UQ’s Dr Kathy Townsend, a marine biologist from the Moreton Bay Research Station, has been awarded an international science prize to continue her work on the impact of marine rubbish on sea turtles.

14 October 2009
The CoolMe vest as worn under Fire and Rescue turnout gear

Emergency workers, sportspeople, and miners are set to benefit from an innovative personal cooling system should GRW Industries win the UQ Business School Enterprize competition.

14 October 2009
Oscar Dunens of Oak Carbon

Super-strong carbon nanotubes could snag Oak Carbon $100,000 in the 2009 UQ Business School Enterprize competition.

14 October 2009

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Native Floriculture (CNF) welcomed approximately 50 people to its Open Day, “Opportunities with native flora”, at the Gatton Campus last week.

14 October 2009
Dr Liz Mackinlay (left) and Dr Katelyn Barney

In the spirit of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations, a team of academics from The University of Queensland is set to evaluate how problem-based learning (PBL) is used in the teaching of Indigenous Australian Studies.

14 October 2009
Scholarship winner, Temika Nooteboom with President of the Past Students Association, Graham McClymont

UQ Gatton student Temika Nooteboom has dreamed of working with animals since she was five years old and, thanks to a recent scholarship win, her dream is set to become a reality.

13 October 2009

Be transported to another world when the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble presents a free, unique performance of the popular children’s book, Where The Wild Things Are.

13 October 2009