Forget medals, ancient Games athletes battled for olive oil

The Olympics were only one aspect of sport in ancient Greece - often overlooked is that these Games were part of a circuit of 4 international sporting festivals.

9 May 2025
A stone carving featuring a chariot being pulled by four horses.

Researchers to take healthy oats beyond breakfast

Expanding consumption of oats beyond the usual breakfast bowl of porridge is the aim of a $5.6 million project at the Food and Beverage Accelerator.

9 May 2025
a bowl of porridge sits next to a wooden spoon and a jar of uncooked oats

Two physics students from The University of Queensland have taken their passion for science on the road and into Queensland classrooms, after earning major Australian ambassador awards.

20 August 2009
Kathryn Zealand

In just one and a half years, one University of Queensland physics student has completed her Bachelor of Science degree – that’s only half the time it usually takes.

20 August 2009
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
Editor of the Fiji Times newspaper Netani Rika

UQ’s School of Journalism and Communication will be visited by the award winning Editor in Chief of the Fiji Times on Wednesday, August 26.

19 August 2009

The University of Queensland is forging closer ties with the business community with the appointment of two Smart Futures Entrepreneurs-in-Residence announced in Parliament today by State Treasurer Andrew Fraser.

19 August 2009

The UQ Centenary Secretariat is seeking expressions of interest from performers of all types to take part in the UQ Centenary Celebration Day on April 18, 2010.

19 August 2009
Carly Starr with one of her subjects

Malaria, landmines, elephants and a diet of frogs has not kept The University of Queensland PhD student Carly Starr from becoming a world expert on a Cambodian animal not unlike a possum.

19 August 2009
Dr Rowan Gillies at work in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, Dr Rowan Gillies, will continue a proud tradition when he gives the E S Meyers Memorial Lecture at UQ this Friday.

18 August 2009

Melbourne is the second place where The University of Queensland marketing lecturer Dr Doan Nguyen will screen her debut full-length feature film.

17 August 2009

Award-winning novelist and UQ alumnus Amy Barker will return to Emmanuel College in September to help launch her novel Omega Park.

17 August 2009
Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO

Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO, Governor of Queensland, became the first woman to deliver the annual Dr David Williams Lecture at King’s College on August 4.

17 August 2009