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

The 7000-year-old coral communities of Moreton Bay are telling a curious tale, expanding when sea-levels rise or water quality improves, then declining when current circulation becomes more restricted.

4 August 2009

With a planned new $2.5 million GP Super Clinic, state-of-the-art facilities and degrees that allow you to fast-track your career in less than three years – UQ Ipswich is the place to study in 2010.

4 August 2009
(From left) Professor Michael Keniger; Dr Cindy Blackstock; Dr Jackie Huggins; Ms Donna Klein-Kawane; Dr Jane Thomson; Professor Stewart Gill.

One of Canada’s foremost experts on First Nations child and family welfare, Cindy Blackstock, will speak at UQ today (August 4).

4 August 2009

Regardless of your background, you can expand your horizons with UQ Business School, as Dean Robertson found when he began his MBA earlier this year.

4 August 2009

Orangutans provide the “human face” of an environmental battle in a documentary being screened at the Schonell Theatre at The University of Queensland.

31 July 2009

Promoting physical activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was one of the keynote topics discussed at a recent BIPAN Think Tank at UQ.

31 July 2009

A University of Queensland research team has been awarded the second largest grant provided under the National Heart Foundation (NHF) and beyondblue Cardiovascular Disease and Depression Strategic Research Program.

30 July 2009

One of the corals that form the backbone of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is to become the first complex animal to have its genes fully explored in Australia.

30 July 2009

Better online support services for suicidal people is more important than shutting down websites showing ways to die, a research academic from The University of Queensland says.

30 July 2009

Nearly 100 people have already participated in a UQ clinical research study into tennis elbow, but researchers are still seeking more volunteers.

30 July 2009

Four UQ Business School students recently contributed their expertise to a Chinese development project worth an estimated $15 billion, as part of their postgraduate studies.

29 July 2009