Replanted rainforests may benefit from termite transplants

Despite a bad reputation for their destructive abilities, termite ‘transplants’ may be necessary to give regenerated rainforests a boost.

7 May 2025
a view of forested hills with clouds above the top of the slope

Light conversion tech to power wearable X-rays for children

Light conversion technology developed by UQ researchers will be used for wearable X-ray devices that make respiratory scans more comfortable for young children.

6 May 2025
UQ reseachers examining light conversion technology in a lab.
(from left) Jack Fisher, Georgina Horsburgh, Arthur Abal and Tim Warwick

POPULAR culture goes under the microscope at The University of Queensland this week, with law students staging their annual revue at the Schonell Theatre.

25 August 2009
Paul Kelly

Honours student Paul Kelly has taken out the top spot at UQ Business School’s Research Colloquium with his research into the new goodwill accounting standard.

24 August 2009

Catherine Drummond, a 4th year UQ Arts/Law student has been selected as the inaugural winner of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Excellence Award.

24 August 2009

Architecture has gone from design in an office to experimentation and teamwork in a studio at The University of Queensland.

24 August 2009

TC Beirne School of Law students celebrated another mooting success this month (August) by winning the 2009 Shine Lawyers National Torts Moot Competition.

22 August 2009

Experts from around the world will be attending a symposium in Canberra next week to review the impact of the historic free trade agreement signed between the US and Australia five years ago this month (August).

22 August 2009
The New Dawn FM team

A pioneering community radio station in Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Province of Bougainville, New Dawn FM 95.3, has won the UQ School of Journalism and Communication's 2009 Communication and Social Change Award.

22 August 2009

With workplace conflict a big issue in Australian organisations, UQ Business School Honours student Jeremy Chen is finding out just how this affects workplace trust.

22 August 2009
Mr Puan bands a fledgling barn owl in Malaysia

Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.

21 August 2009

Abortion laws in Queensland are out of date and in urgent need of reform, according to a University of Queensland law academic.

21 August 2009
L to R: Professor Hugh Possingham, Mr Brian Sherman AM (Sherman Foundation), Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General, Dr Ian Ball and Mr Matt Watts

The designers of conservation planning software that helped rezone the Great Barrier Reef have been recognised with the prestigious Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.

21 August 2009