UQ’s Dr Xin Liu’s Tai Chi-based exercise program targets obese people suffering depression, anxiety and stress.

A University of Queensland study has revitalised an ancient martial art into a world-first Tai Chi-based exercise program that targets obese people suffering depression, anxiety and stress.

14 May 2015

这是国际上有关太极对有抑郁症、焦虑症和紧张症的肥胖患者健康效果的第一个临床研究, 使得古老的太极功夫在此领域焕发了新的生机。

14 May 2015
Associate Professor Christine Wells ... "making good quality data available, easy to use and shareable ... can lead to major discoveries".

Associate Professor Christine Wells from The University of Queensland has won a $50,000 prize for leadership in stem cell research.

13 May 2015
Jefferson Mac and his guide dog Ice

Psychology graduate Jefferson Mac likes to joke that his orientation work with incoming students at The University of Queensland is a case of “the blind leading the blind”.

11 May 2015
A UQ study has found the more time we spend with people from another nationality the more empathy we have for them.

The more time we spend with people from another nationality the more empathy we have for them, University of Queensland research has found.

8 May 2015
UQ researchers have discovered how calcium is transferred into mother’s milk.

Breakthrough research at the University of Queensland has unlocked a mysterious process essential to breastfeeding.

7 May 2015
UQ and the UN have collaborated to produce a report on migrant smuggling in Asia

The University of Queensland has collaborated with the United Nations to produce a world-first comprehensive report on migrant smuggling in Asia.

5 May 2015

University of Queensland researchers are developing a new asthma treatment that targets the underlying cause of asthma, rather than just the symptoms.

4 May 2015
Professor Walter Thomas.

A team of University of Queensland researchers is investigating the surprising discovery that smell and taste receptors normally found in the nose and mouth can also be present on the human heart.

4 May 2015

The image of the rebellious teen might be more myth than reality, according to researchers at The University of Queensland’s Parenting and Family Support Centre.

1 May 2015
A goanna is caught on a sensor camera eating a loggerhead turtle egg at Wreck Rock Beach. Photograph: David Booth

Scientists at The University of Queensland are fitting goannas with GPS tracking devices as they search for ways to stop them devouring loggerhead turtle eggs.

1 May 2015
Extinctions are difficult to detect in oceans, but fossils are helping.

An international scientific team has used a 23-million-year fossil record to calculate which marine animals and ecosystems are most at risk of extinction today.

1 May 2015
UQ will celebrate Vesak Day on Tuesday

The Buddhist Vesak festival will be celebrated at The University of Queensland with a series of presentations on Tuesday (5 May).

30 April 2015
The collaboration fosters medical innovation by bringing together complementary skills.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and UniQuest have formed an “open innovation” program to support academic research that holds promise of new therapeutic drugs.

30 April 2015
Goolarabooloo Law Boss Phillip Roe, Dr Steve Salisbury and Linda Pollard use the dino-drone. Photo: Damian Kelly.

University of Queensland palaeontologists are using the latest scientific technology to capture new information that will help bring a 130-million-year-old dinosaur landscape back to life.

29 April 2015