The State Government today pledged $77.5 million funding over the next 10 years to support the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland.

20 May 1999

The University of Queensland's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research (CICR) has won an Australian Technology Award for excellence in developing biotechnology and pharmaceutical technology.

19 May 1999

The president-elect of the world's largest scientific society will give a public lecture at the University of Queensland this month.

19 May 1999

Word usage guru Professor Roly Sussex is challenging all comers to stump him for words at the free UQ Expo in Brisbane on May 29 and 30.

19 May 1999

University of Queensland sculptor Rhyl Hinwood believes it is appropriate that nomadic and migratory birds feature in her latest carved decorations at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

19 May 1999

A native plant propagated at the University of Queensland's Gatton College has won "Best New Plant" at the prestigious Floralies Internationale de Nantes exhibition in France.

19 May 1999

University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hay today opened four new state-of-the-art computer teaching laboratories at the University's St Lucia campus.

18 May 1999

Five of the six finalists in the prestigious AMP Biomedical Research Awards to be announced next month are young scientists from the University of Queensland.

13 May 1999

A mathematical formula developed to explain the constant twisting and turning of DNA within cells is shedding light on the office workers' bug-bear of tangled telephone cords.

13 May 1999

An honour board of 46 University graduates and staff who have represented Australia in Olympic Games since 1948 could become part of a permanent sports museum or hall of fame at the St Lucia campus.

13 May 1999

Good things certainly come in threes in the Peel family - mother Nancye and two of her three daughters, Jacqueline and now Christine, have all been awarded University of Queensland medals for academic achievement.

10 May 1999

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland Professor John Hay said today a review of activities within the faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science (NRAVS) was an internal matter.

9 May 1999

The next Rugby World Cup is expected to be the scene of just as many clashes off the field as on as English clubs recruit the world's best players, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

7 May 1999

The mining and petroleum industries will have new access to world-class research and consultancy services through the University of Queensland's Exploration Research Unit (ERU).

7 May 1999

Subsystems for the next generation of global multimedia communications will be developed at the University of Queensland as part of the first phase of a $100 million European Space Agency project.

7 May 1999

University of Queensland researchers are leading a $2.1 million project to develop a major electronic database of information and resources for Australia's tourism operators.

7 May 1999

A procedure designed to improve hearing in adult humans has been used for the first time in the world to regain hearing in man's best friend.

6 May 1999

A University of Queensland academic has criticised economic rationalism as a "dumb" economic theory and has questioned its rise in Australian political thinking.

5 May 1999

Size will count for almost everything when around 50 students from the University of Queensland's St Lucia and Gatton campuses put their plant propagation credentials on the line at the first annual Sunflower Showdown on Wednesday, May 12.

5 May 1999

The University of Queensland has acquired a powerful new instrument which will advance understanding of the way the human body disposes of drugs.

5 May 1999