Text of speech delivered by Emeritus Professor Kennedy Shortridge to UQ’s Hong Kong graduation ceremony on Friday, September 17, 2004.
30 September 2004In the future, health students will be able to operate on a “working” heart or manipulate “live” muscles using 3-D images.
29 September 2004The behaviour of an endangered group of wild cattle may hold some solutions for reducing stress in domesticated beef and dairy herds, according to a University of Queensland (UQ) academic.
29 September 2004The ANZAC spirit of the Australian and New Zealand biotech industries has been boosted with the arrival of one of New Zealand’s premier agricultural scientists at IMBcom, the University of Queensland’s commercialisation company for the Institute for...
28 September 2004Economics Professor John Quiggin has topped an Australian Hall of Fame for economists.
27 September 2004Farmers and students from the University of Queensland (UQ) Gatton have joined forces to tackle the shortage of qualified graduates in the agricultural and horticultural industries.
27 September 2004The University of Queensland is playing a major role in ensuring the success of the Brisbane Writers Festival, to be held from September 27 to October 3.
27 September 2004How and when babies and young children understand what it means to be human is the subject of Dr Virginia Slaughter`s research within UQ`s School of Psychology.
24 September 2004A University of Queensland researcher is challenging the view “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” in the world of many everyday products – and in the process has won a prestigious UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.
24 September 2004From customs to animal health, University of Queensland graduate Brian Ruddle is designing and delivering economic development programs for South East Asia.
24 September 2004University 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 2004For her PhD thesis, Lecturer in Marketing at UQ’s Business School Dr Tracey Dagger singled out the most important service aspects of receiving treatment at heamatology and oncology clinics for cancer patients.
23 September 2004Breakthroughs in neuroscience that identify “addiction genes” could bring hope to hard core smokers and drug users, but will also raise disturbing ethical issues, according to University of Queensland Professor Wayne Hall.
23 September 2004Understanding how our kidneys absorb protein from urine should give medical researchers more ammunition to fight skyrocketing kidney disease in diabetics.
23 September 2004A promising lead in developing anti-viral drugs with the potential to fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) has been boosted by a University of Queensland Research Excellence Award.
23 September 2004A University of Queensland researcher is examining how coral reef fish obtain their own sunscreens.
22 September 2004A University of Queensland researcher is working to halt the progress of chronic liver disease, which affects a quarter of million Australians.
22 September 2004The mobile phone and the internet have become much more than new communication tools for a whole generation of young people.
22 September 2004Delving into the lives of internet share traders might reveal a lot more than just bank balances.
22 September 2004The business world will have a better method of evaluating big investment projects and meeting required returns, if Dr Maosen Zhong has his way.
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