Australia is in a strong position to participate as suppliers, rather than as purchasers of services, in advanced space technology, according to a leading UQ space researcher.

24 September 2002

Ramjets predated World War II, with beginnings in 1913, when Rene Lorin of France recognised the possibility of using ram pressure in a propulsive device.

27 July 2002

UQ researchers already hold the record for being the first group reported in the open literature to “fly” a scramjet in a UQ ground test facility in 1993.

27 July 2002

How the brain solves problems, and what happens when this ability is impaired, for example in Alzheimer's disease, are the subjects of a new University of Queensland study.

1 June 2001

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to make the business of flight more efficient by significantly reducing drag, work which has implications for vehicles from aeroplanes to space craft.

26 March 2001

The University of Queensland's technology transfer company, UniQuest Limited, today signed an extension of a significant consultancy contract with the Australian Defence Department.

22 January 2001

The U.S. Air Force, the National Aeronautical Laboratory of Japan, and U.S. aerospace company GASL have joined a University of Queensland-led international space flight project to blast off this year.

4 January 2001

The University of Queensland has consolidated its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the third highest number and amount of new grant allocations nationally for 2001 from the National Health and Medical...

21 November 2000

Australia's first university based Venture Capital Fund -- to be known as UniSeed -- was launched today with an initial capitalisation of $20 million.

5 September 2000

Senior leaders of business, the professions and The University of Queensland have been appointed to the UQ Graduate School's Board which has held its first meeting.

8 March 2000

The University of Queensland will honour a pioneer of Australian space engineering research at a Brisbane graduation ceremony tomorrow, Wednesday December 8.

8 March 2000

The University of Queensland will honour a pioneer of Australian space engineering research at a Brisbane graduation ceremony tomorrow, Wednesday December 8.

7 December 1999

University of Queensland academics have won Australian Awards for University Teaching for the third consecutive year since the awards were established in 1997.

1 December 1999

A University of Queensland researcher who pioneered work into the cell biology of insulin action has been awarded the 1999 Glaxo Wellcome Australia Medal for breakthrough research applicable to human health.

9 November 1999

A PhD study of Cold War events during the Kennedy era has won a 26-year-old University of Queensland student an assistant professorship at a prestigious American university.

29 October 1999

University of Queensland researchers have won the highest number and value of the Australian Research Council's Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (RIEF) grants for 2000.

27 October 1999

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

The mining and petroleum industries will have new access to world-class research and consultancy services through the University of Queensland's Exploration Research Unit (ERU).

7 May 1999

Whether it is perusing previously top secret documents about John F Kennedy in Boston or using state-of-the-art isotope analysis equipment in China, the world is a postgraduate's oyster thanks to new University of Queensland travel awards.

31 March 1999

THE University of Queensland's Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre has won the 1999 annual Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Commodity Innovation Award for mining, announced at the Outlook 99 conference in...

19 March 1999