Biodiversity thrives in rare events
UQ research has shown unpredictable environmental events help maintain plant, animal and microbial populations, challenging the belief stability is the key to survival.
17 June 2025
Pioneer varieties of legume for Australian growers
The University of Queensland has developed 5 new varieties of pigeonpea as a step towards the legume being grown more widely in Australia.
17 June 2025
Reawakening ancient grains
Returning locally extinct native grains to Queensland’s grasslands is the goal of Gamilaraay man and UQ PhD candidate Jacob Birch.
16 June 2025
A remarkable exhibition of Indigenous rock art from the Western Arnhem Land Plateau will open tomorrow at The University of Queensland’s Anthropology Museum.
18 February 2016
Bigger will definitely be better for more than 3000 students who plant sunflowers on Tuesday (23 February) in the 2016 University of Queensland Sunflower competition.
18 February 2016
University of Queensland graduate Tim Munro is celebrating his third Grammy win, after taking out the 2016 Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for his work in sextet ‘eighth blackbird’.
17 February 2016
A group of University of Queensland law students have gained insight into corruption, money laundering and human trafficking thanks to an innovative law course in Switzerland this month.
17 February 2016
The University of Queensland will host a celebration of all-things African in April, thanks to the extraordinary work of an entrepreneurial business management student.
17 February 2016
Joining a book club after retirement could extend your life just as much as doing weekly exercise.
16 February 2016
Brisbane’s St John’s Cathedral and the Spring Hill Reservoirs are set to be transformed for a series of “immersive concerts” created and produced by a University of Queensland duo.
15 February 2016
The world’s greatest science festival is coming to Brisbane, and The University of Queensland’s Science Demo Troupe is gearing up to flaunt their skills in a Street Science event.
15 February 2016
Forests are the lungs of the planet, so surely planting more of them could only be a good thing.
15 February 2016
A discovery in a transparent roundworm has brought scientists one step closer to understanding nerve degeneration.
12 February 2016
The University of Queensland has awarded honorary doctorates to philanthropists Greg Poche AO and Kay E. Van Norton Poche, in recognition of their life-changing dedication to Indigenous health.
11 February 2016
They’re tracking dinosaurs, treating epilepsy, battling superbugs, figuring out quantum biophysics and working to save the environment for future generations – meet The University of Queensland’s women scientists.
11 February 2016
Christine Grey would have been just as sexy as Christian Grey as the lead character in Fifty Shades of Grey – and resulted in less ambivalence about rape.
10 February 2016
Fibres from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength.
10 February 2016
A non-invasive pregnancy test for tigers developed at The University of Queensland has played a key role in the latest tiger cub births at Dreamworld on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
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