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Ancient Crossroads

Who would have thought the best place to find out when people first came to Australia would be in India, but for University archaeologist Dr Chris Clarkson, it makes perfect sense. “India is the crossroads between Afr...

Animal Tracker

Two entrepreneurial researchers from UQ and the University of Southern Queensland have taken their collaborative research further along the commercialisation pathway. Neal Finch (UQ) and Mark Dunn (USQ) have developed novel...

Awards and Honours Highlights - 2008

UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards 2008

Bee Brainy

Families flocked to see the latest animated hit, Bee Movie, but scientists from the University’s Queensland Brain Institute have long embraced the bee for very different reasons. Bees have a brain the size of a sesame...

Challenge Met

Better support for people with intellectual disabilities will be an outcome of a unique new research and teaching centre based at the University. The Centre of Excellence for Behaviour Support, an Australian-first initiated...

Construction Reinstruction

Read Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley, the first book to detail Australian Aboriginal architecture, and you’re bound to learn a thing or two. Put together by Professor Paul Memmott and published by Unive...

Crystal Clear

University of Queensland researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals that could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy. Professor Max Lu, from the Univer...

Future Therapy

The new $66 million UQ Centre for Clinical Research located at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital will house around 300 specially selected researchers focused on patient orientated research, conducted in response to questions that...

Higher Learning

The University has more than 3600 research higher degree candidates, and graduates more than 400 PhD candidates each year – a 100 percent increase on just over a decade ago. With the second-highest number of PhD candi...

History's Coordinates

Researchers from the University, in partnership with the Queensland Museum, are driving an exciting project designed to generate a new conception of Queensland’s cultural and environmental history. The Queensland ...

Homing Crocs

Saltwater crocodiles are making marathon ocean swims to reach home even if they are airlifted hundreds of kilometres away, new research shows.

Introduction - Research Report 2008

It has long been fashionable to divide research into categories, such as “pure” and “applied” – the implication being that they are clearly different. Such divisions are increasingly meaningless, not just at UQ,...

Life's Blood

UQ is recognised as one of the world’s leading research organisations in the area of water. Some research and training developments in this area involving the University include: • the South East Queenslan...

Managing Incidence

Diabetes mellitus – Type 1, Type 2 and gestational – will continue as an urgent health priority for Australia and globally throughout this century with 940,000 Australians estimated to have the disease. Diabetes...

Patently Clear

A team of University researchers is examining a new trend of patenting plant innovations and determining its value to the Australian horticulture industry. Professor Brad Sherman, from the Australian Centre for Intellectual...

Premier Fellow

A University expert who pioneered research linking climate change projections with coral reef distress is the 2008 Smart State Premier’s Fellow. Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is the third University researcher to win t...

Protein Prospect

Australian scientists are researching a possible way of making aggressive prostate cancer cells less invasive after their discovery of a protein essential for the normal functioning of cells. Professor Robert Parton led a t...

Public Priorities

Whether developing more reliable ways to assess global health, or investigating the beliefs and knowledge of their own health held by Australians, public health research is a major priority at UQ. Mortality  Me...

Research Showcase - 2010

A snapshot of myriad research activities and discoveries across university faculties, institutes, centres, and schools.

Rock Solid Energy

Harnessing an untapped energy source that has the capacity to power Australia for 6000 years will be the focus of a new centre at the University. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh last year announced a $15 million five-year con...

Seeing It Through

The successful commercialisation of groundbreaking research continues to distinguish the University and cement its place in the top 10 percent of universities worldwide for technology transfer. Since 2000, more than $250 mi...

UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award Winners 2008

Dr Dustin Marshall - School of Integrative Biology Dr Ben Powell - School of Physical Sciences

UQ Sponsors - 2008

Thank you to our major research funding bodies and supporters.

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