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Since it was established at The University of Queensland in 2001, the Australasian Centre on Ageing has worked with government, aged care providers and other stakeholders on the development of policy relevant research.
As one of the priorit...
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The written and visual contents of the journals of the hardy souls who explored inland Australia in the 19th century were not solely for the purposes of scientific information, a University of Queensland researcher believes.
Dr Kerry Hecken...
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The health of communities in rural and remote Australia will be boosted by a new research alliance between The University of Queensland and The University of Southern Queensland.
The jointly-badged Centre for Rural and Remote Area Healt...
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The face of Queensland's multi-million dollar cotton industry could be about to change thanks to pioneering work by a University of Queensland scientist.
Professor David Craik, from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), has discove...
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Trying to diminish negative human interaction by tracking the movements of estuarine crocodiles is the aim of a joint research project being carried out by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and The University of Queensland.
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The Australian business sector has recognised The University of Queensland's effectiveness in
collaborating with industry to develop relevant and commercially-viable products through its research.
UQ projects won two awards, with ...
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The availability of a personal cleaning service could influence the real-estate choices and movements of Great Barrier Reef fish.
Coral reef ecologist Dr Lexa Grutter of The University of Queensland's School of Life Sciences has discovered t...
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A former US astronaut and senior figure in the George W. Bush administration has praised the high quality of research in UQ's Centre for Hypersonics.
Dr Ron Sega, who is the US Director of Defense Research and Engineering, visited the Centr...
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Australia's largest research complex dedicated to human, animal and plant biology "the Queensland Bioscience Precinct" opened this year at The University of Queensland.
The $105 million Queensland Bioscience Precinct opened ...
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A reforestation project underway in northern Vietnam has the potential not only to improve the environment but to boost the income of small land-holders, says UQ natural resources economist Associate Professor Steve Harrison.
Dr Steve Harri...
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When New York's twin towers tumbled on September 11, 2001, so too did the carefree attitude of the world's holidaymakers, sparking crisis in the tourism sector.
The World Tourism Organisatio...
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An agreement between Queensland Treasury and The University of Queensland will provide $500,000 over five years to support demographic research in the Queensland Centre for Population Research.
Population projections based on a powerfu...
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The sacred knowledge of an Aboriginal community living on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria has been turned into an important new atlas.
When British explorer Matthew Flinders mapped the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria almost 1000 ...
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A University of Queensland team at the Princess Alexandra Hospital is believed to be the first in the world to find a mechanism to turn off an auto-immune disease once it has started.
The discovery by a University of Queensland team of ...
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A University of Queensland academic has spent four months on a national journey to collect reminiscences and memorabilia from people involved in the 46-year history of the Miss Australia Awards.
Professor Kay Saunders from UQ's School of His...
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A world-renowned University of Queensland program that evolved from research into childhood behaviour has reached another important milestone.
Stepping Stones Triple P was launched in June and is being hailed as a landmark interven...
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The fossilised skull fragments of a giant clumsy terrestrial plant-eating creature from the Cretaceous period suggest that while dinosaurs ruled most of the Earth at the time, they did not rule Queensland.
Fossils suggesting dinosaurs did...
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Diagnosing the onset of early dementia could be as easy as a 30-minute consultation with a computer using a program being developed by The University of Queensland.
The program, funded by a $320,000 National Health and Medical Research C...
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The export trade in Australian native flowers and foliage from Queensland is expected to grow into a $60 million industry in a decade through research and development programs in a new centre at The University of Queensland Gatton.
Meeti...
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Professor Alan Lopez, an internationally recognised expert in public health, with 20 years experience at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, was appointed as the new Head of UQ's School of Population Health (SOPH) this year.
Profess...
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University of Queensland researchers have visited one of the most desolate and beautiful places on Earth to discover why temperatures are dropping in some parts of the world and increasing in others.
In November 2002 Dr Hamish McGowan ...
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The advance inland from coastal regions of a weed threatening the productivity of extensive grazing lands is being halted by management strategies developed during PhD research at The University of Queensland Gatton.
Dr Wayne Vogler's PhD, ...
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New galaxies so small they had previously been mistaken for stars have been discovered by an international research project team led Dr Michael Drinkwater, a senior lecturer in physics at The University of Queensland.
Conducting galaxy r...
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From life-sustaining legumes, to life-saving disease control and life-changing medical and molecular discoveries, The University of Queensland's researchers continually stretch science's boundaries.
The University of Queensland's...
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The University of Queensland attracted the largest share by a single institution of the prestigious 2003 Federation Fellowships further enhancing the international standing of the University.
The University of Queens...
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The University of Queensland has outstanding research students engaged in exploration both exciting and diverse.
Recognising the importance of setting the foundations for ongoing research achievement, The University of Queensland is proa...
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A new chapter has been written for an innovative University of Queensland literacy program based on research into Down Syndrome.
The University of Queensland's Literacy and Technology Hands On (LATCH-ON) program has been providing a li...
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A new $50 million Institute will spearhead research into biomedical delivery, biodevices, tissue regeneration and cell therapies.
Taking giant scientific leaps using the smallest of matter is one priority for University of Queenslan...
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Dealing with the world outside the mine is becoming a priority for The University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute in its second year of operation.
While the University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) is a...
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It has been a busy first year for the Centre for the History of European Discourses, hosting its first major conference and building links with institutions and researchers around the world.
THE most significant of the many links formed by T...
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For such an all-pervasive medium, the world of talkback radio has surprisingly been overlooked by researchers into popular culture.
Professor Graeme Turner, the Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at The Universit...
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Conservationists and a team of environmental managers led by a University of Queensland expert are working to preserve endangered habitats of animals ranging from mountain gorillas in Uganda to Bengal tigers in South Asia.
Leading a world-f...
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The research rush of the "noughties" is being propelled by computers with astonishing capabilities, rapid technological advances, and new specialist facilities.
Scientists at The University of Queensland have access to some of the...
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Taking research discoveries from the laboratory and licensing them to business and industry for commercial use has become one of the best revenue sources for Australian universities.
A payment of $3 million by UniQuest to The Univers...
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A vaccine which could provide immunity against the deadly West Nile disease has been created through research into a relatively harmless virus.
Dr Roy Hall, from UQ's School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, and Dr Alex Khromykh, from th...
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