Advanced prostate cancer drug a step closer to the clinic

A $1.25 million investment is driving the development of a new treatment for advanced and therapy-resistant prostate cancer at UQ.

13 May 2025
Three scientists in white lab coats looking at a computer screen.

New national guidelines to improve fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis

Health professionals will have access to national clinical practice guidelines to help assess and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, after a 4-year research project led by UQ.

13 May 2025
Pregnant woman declining glass of red wine. Adobe
UQ's Lucy Tan (left to Prime Minister Julia Gillard) will pursue research into mindfulness for adolescents with mental disorders in Hong Kong after being named one of 20 recipients of a Prime Minister's Endeavour Asia Award.

A University of Queensland researcher has been honoured with a Prime Minister’s Endeavour Asia Award that will expand her research into mindfulness for adolescents with mental health disorders in Hong Kong.

15 March 2013
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, ‘Future Remnant’ 2011, dinosaur fossil replica, IKEA furnishings, cable binding, 285 x 180 x 485 cm irreg. 
Courtesy of the artists and Nature Morte, Berlin and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney and © the artists

An entire aeroplane arrived at The University of Queensland, piece by piece, to feature in the first Australian survey exhibition of collaborative artists, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro.

14 March 2013
Team Maunder gets ready to "be brave and shave" in front of crowds at Regatta Hotel to raise funds for the World’s Greatest Shave campaign. (Left in orange, Kane Boucaut, back in blue, Louis Stephen, middle in blue John Maunder and right in orange Mac Alison.) Photo by Kate Bishop.

A University of Queensland medical student suffering from a rare, incurable blood cancer is leading a team with a $60,000 fundraising goal in the World’s Greatest Shave campaign.

14 March 2013

University of Queensland students Michael Bergin and Regan Forrest will visit China in April as part of a Student Leadership in International Cooperation program.

14 March 2013

The move to university life can be daunting at first, but this social student group is providing a series of outings and activities to help students to feel welcome in 2013.

13 March 2013
In the early stages of the scramjet's assembly, Dr Sandy Tirtey of UQ and Dr Roberto Gardi of Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA) attach winglets made of a ceramic material which will be tested on its flight in Norway this year.

An exotic ceramic material that could one day be used to build hypersonic flight craft will be hitching a ride on a free-flying scramjet flight experiment built by The University of Queensland’s SCRAMSPACE flight team.

13 March 2013

Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations was a meaningful step for some Indigenous Australians, but action is still needed to progress reconciliation, a University of Queensland researcher has found.

13 March 2013

With World Kidney Day being celebrated tomorrow, University of Queensland researchers are investigating the health effects of intense interval training in people with chronic kidney disease, with the aim to reduce the high mortality rate associated...

13 March 2013

A unique Rural Birth Summit with the aim of bringing birth services back to the bush will be held in Rockhampton today (Thursday 14 March).

13 March 2013

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) and CSIRO are investigating people’s responses to environmental communication based on their personal beliefs.

13 March 2013

QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has today announced a $4 million international collaboration to improve sorghum productivity under drought conditions.

12 March 2013