Koalas set to benefit from new genetic screening tool

A UQ-led project has developed a tool to standardise genetic testing of koala populations, providing a significant boost to conservation and recovery efforts.

13 June 2025
A koala sleeping in the branches of a gum tree.

Online tool connecting businesses and universities

Researchers from UQ have developed an online tool to help small businesses work with universities to innovate their products and expand their trade.

13 June 2025
A man and woman in a workplace stand next to a laptop

More than 250 high school students battled it out to take home the title of Queensland’s top sunflower grower at The University of Queensland’s annual Sunflower Competition Weigh-In Day on Tuesday (19 May).

20 May 2015
The research drew on data from almost every twin study across the world from the past 50 years.

One of the great tussles of science – whether our health is governed by nature or nurture – has been settled, and it is effectively a draw.

19 May 2015
The winning sunflower will be determined on Tuesday 19 May.

A sea of sunflowers will face the scales on Tuesday, 19 May at The University of Queensland’s Gatton Campus.

18 May 2015
Dr Martin Luther King Jr ... Dr Hutch met him during a civil rights worker training program in Atlanta, Georgia.

Venturing into the “deep south” of the United States as a civil rights worker in the summer of 1965 was life-changing for Richard Hutch, then a New York college boy.

18 May 2015
Peter Hennessey ‘The explanation (Cockpit voice recorder)’ 2014 plywood, ABS plastic and wax 17 x 34 x 20 cm Collection of the artist. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Photo: Andrew Curtis

Where better to celebrate International Museum Day on Monday 18 May than The University of Queensland which has multiple?

15 May 2015
FlashLite designer and UQ Research Computing Centre Director Professor David Abramson.

Huge amounts of data produced by research into issues such as cardiac disease, climate change and astrophysics will be easier to navigate when a new supercomputer is commissioned at The University of Queensland in mid-2015.

14 May 2015
Darren Siwes  Marrkidj Wurd-ko (Cross Pose) Group 2011. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

A new exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum explores how artists use the body’s sensory language to shape political thought.

14 May 2015
A UQ body image expert is warning the ‘Dad bod’ craze is probably a load of baloney.

It’s whipped social media into a lather, yet a University of Queensland body-image expert is warning the ‘Dad bod’ craze is probably a load of baloney.

14 May 2015
 UQ’s Dr Xin Liu’s Tai Chi-based exercise program targets obese people suffering depression, anxiety and stress.

A University of Queensland study has revitalised an ancient martial art into a world-first Tai Chi-based exercise program that targets obese people suffering depression, anxiety and stress.

14 May 2015

这是国际上有关太极对有抑郁症、焦虑症和紧张症的肥胖患者健康效果的第一个临床研究, 使得古老的太极功夫在此领域焕发了新的生机。

14 May 2015
Associate Professor Christine Wells ... "making good quality data available, easy to use and shareable ... can lead to major discoveries".

Associate Professor Christine Wells from The University of Queensland has won a $50,000 prize for leadership in stem cell research.

13 May 2015