A gold shovel, a toss of dirt and a handshake signalled the start of construction of the new $2.25 million University athletics track and facilities at the St Lucia campus on September 23.
30 September 1997A University research team has identified the bacterium responsible for a little-understood pig disease that threatens the pig industry in Vietnam and Australia.
29 September 1997Associate-Professor Geoff McLachlan of the Mathematics Department has been honoured with the inaugural Wiley-Interscience Award for outstanding achievement in scholarly publishing.
29 September 1997Traditional Thai dancing, cuisine and culture will be celebrated against a backdrop of floating candles on the main University lake, College Road on Friday, October 10 between 5.30-10.30pm.
29 September 1997The University of Queensland-based Co-operative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Pathology is Australia's leading plant pathology research centre, according to an independent review of its operations.
29 September 1997More than 300 Australian school children will sing, dance and even rap their way through 'mind-bending problems' when the University hosts the national final of the Tournament of Minds in October.
29 September 1997One of the University of Queensland's most highly regarded academics will be honoured by associates and colleagues in a two-day tribute next month.
26 September 1997Chemical contamination of the marine environment in some parts of Antarctica has been investigated by a University of Queensland researcher.
25 September 1997The University campus will come alive with a cultural extravaganza planned around this year's Hispanic Fiesta to celebrate the National Day of Spain on October 12.
25 September 1997The University of Queensland's technology transfer company UniQuest Limited has signed an agreement with a high-tech German company for a $1.5 million, two-year glass R & D program.
25 September 1997Hearing research of the aged and improving the quality of life of people with communication disabilities is the focus of the University of Queensland's new Communication Disability in Ageing Research Unit, to be launched on Monday, October 6.
25 September 1997The fast track of tertiary study is hotter than ever at the University of Queensland this summer, with about 90 diverse subjects on offer at Summer School to the public and enrolled students.
25 September 1997Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt called it 'exceedingly remarkable and bizarre'. University of Queensland researchers call it 'spectacular but threatened'.
24 September 1997A team of University of Queensland law students who won an international law moot competition earlier this year 'are not only up with the top but are the top', according to Governor-General Sir William Deane.
24 September 1997The University's 1997 Alumnus of the Year is 1956 medicine graduate Dr Rodney Withers - who this year won the United States government's oldest known science and technology award.
24 September 1997Profound deafness has not deterred University of Queensland arts/law student Marissa Ker from studying a double major in Japanese, for which she received a grade point average of six last semester.
23 September 1997Simon Bottomley admits he didn't have to do much arm twisting to persuade his company to sponsor him through his master of business administration course at the University of Queensland.
22 September 1997Researchers at the University of Queensland's Family Centre are investigating what makes the transition from childhood to adulthood more stressful in some families than others.
22 September 1997The University of Queensland will train Indonesians in a $32 million project to provide world-standard monitoring of the Asian archipelago's environment.
22 September 1997The University of Queensland's solar car, SunShark, is set for a makeover following an $18,000 donation by the University's Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture.
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