Fluoride has greater benefits for vulnerable children

Water fluoridation is effective in preventing tooth decay overall, but there are greater benefits for children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, UQ research has found.

2 July 2025
Person filling glass with water from tap. Adobe

Peer influence drives youth vaping epidemic

Young people with friends who vape are 15 times more likely to use e-cigarettes, and more adolescents are turning to illicit cannabis products, University of Queensland research has found.

2 July 2025
Two young women using vapes outdoors. Image, Adobe.
The winning act at Gatton's Got Talent.

An 80s rock duo topped the field of talent at the The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus recently.

4 May 2012

The University of Queensland’s Information Technology Services has raised email quotas to 4GB for all UQ staff.

4 May 2012
UQ alumnus Yassmin Abdel-Magied won the international Speaking Out for Engineering competition in Singapore.

By engaging an international audience with tales of mechanical engineering, an alumna of The University of Queensland has won a global communication title.

3 May 2012

Banning biker gangs and criminalising membership of outlaw motorcycle groups will not be an effective way to combat organised crime says legal expert Dr Andreas Schloenhardt of UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law.

3 May 2012
The Forgan Smith building at the UQ St Lucia campus is lit up red in support of MS Awareness Month.

The University of Queensland will glow red for the month of May to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that researchers at the university are working to combat.

2 May 2012

UQ School of Tourism Senior Lecturer Dr Lisa Ruhanen and graduate Ms Leonie Bowles have joined forces to research best practices in ecotourism on behalf of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).

1 May 2012

University of Queensland researchers have planted five hectares of Pongamia trees at Hope Vale, north Queensland in a bid to create a commercially viable plantation for sustainable regional development and biofuel production in northern Australia.

1 May 2012

Queensland mums are being given the opportunity to have their voices heard on maternity care in Queensland.

1 May 2012

Australian and US scientists have developed a new technology for studying the genetics of a common roundworm used to understand nerve development and nerve degeneration.

30 April 2012

UniQuest, based at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus, has congratulated NanopatchTM vaccine technology developer Vaxxas Pty Ltd and its investors on winning the prestigious 2012 Best Venture Capital Investment prize.

30 April 2012
From the three-dimensional WiggleZ galaxy map, the team measured a statistical number related to the number of galaxy pairs with a given separation. The tail of this distribution depends theoretically on the neutrino mass as illustrated by the different coloured lines. The more massive the neutrinos, the more they suppress the formation of galaxy pairs with short distances (large inverse distances measured in inverse mega-parsec).
Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Livio and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The lightest known subatomic particles in the universe are now able to be more accurately scrutinised, in light of new astronomic research two years in the making.

30 April 2012