Now every child can learn to read thanks to a revolutionary reading program developed by a researcher at The University of Queensland.

9 November 2005

Botox, used by Hollywood stars to smooth out facial wrinkles, is playing an important role in UQ research to understand how nerve cells communicate with each other.

21 September 2005

Professor Melissa Little from UQ`s Institute for Molecular Bioscience has been selected as a 2006 Eisenhower Fellow and is the first Queenslander in 32 years to receive the honour.

6 September 2005

The University of Queensland’s main commercialisation company UniQuest Pty Ltd is working in collaboration with the UQ Business School to provide entrepreneurial students with an opportunity to become involved in commercialising UQ innovations.

24 June 2005

A new hydrogen storage technology being commercialised by The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd, could propel hydrogen gas into the mass market as an alternative green fuel.

21 February 2005

The University of Queensland’s commercial arm, UniQuest Pty Ltd, is creating a new company, Neurotide Pty Ltd, to develop the next generation of pain killers.

16 November 2004

Teams of UQ students and entrepreneurs will pitch their innovative business ideas and compete for a $100,000 prize and commercialisation opportunities at The University of Queensland Business School Enterprize Pitch Day on 21 October.

15 October 2004

University of Queensland researchers studying subjects as diverse as sunscreens for fish, young people and mobile phones, to how babies understand themselves to be human have been recognised in this year`s UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards.

23 September 2004

Australian media entrepreneur Reg Grundy will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at a University of Queensland Faculty of Arts graduation ceremony today (Tuesday, July 20, at 4pm).

20 July 2004

In the future social workers and behavioural scientists would need to have more multidisciplinary skills, according to Associate Professor Jill Wilson.

1 March 2004

The University of Queensland’s internationally celebrated HyShot™ program has been given its own rocket boost through an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant of almost $2 million announced this week.

16 October 2003

The University of Queensland topped the nation’s universities in funding from the first round of Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects announced today.

15 October 2003

Air Vice-Marshal Julie Hammer CSC has been named The University of Queensland’s 12th Alumnus of the Year.

17 September 2003

The recovery of the successful HyShot™ II experiment still hangs in the balance after an intensive University of Queensland ground search did not locate the payload in the South Australian desert this month.

1 May 2003

UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s technology commercialisation company will today hand over a $3 million cheque to the University.

20 March 2003

Brain imaging researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have produced high-resolution maps of a dynamic wave of tissue loss in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers.

6 February 2003

Accounting pioneer Professor Ray Ball will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate at UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) graduation ceremony.

17 December 2002

The University of Queensland has received an important national award recognising its commitment to equity.

25 November 2002

University of Queensland experts have been awarded more than $1.8 million funding and in-kind support to discover ways of rehabilitating degraded forests in Vietnam.

2 October 2002

Australian scientists have won a multimillion-dollar US grant for research into kidney disease that will be used to spearhead new therapies and treatments for kidney failure.

1 October 2002