Wartime at St Lucia

The controversial cultural history of Allied Servicewomen during World War II will be explored in a free research seminar at UQ on Friday, October 23.

21 October 2009
2010 Queensland Rhodes Scholar Jessica Howley

International law is where UQ graduate and 2010 Queensland Rhodes Scholar Jessica Howley's academic interests lie.

20 October 2009

Collaboration is the key to sustained tourism growth in the Scenic Rim, a University of Queensland study has found.

20 October 2009
UQ medical student Bayden Sales checks on Tamasipini Palenapa, 5, at Apia Hospital. Photo Bruce Long, The Courier-Mail

A group of UQ medical students have sprung into action in the wake of the Samoan tsunami, raising $2000 in a distinctly Australian way before heading to the island nation for a month-long internship.

20 October 2009

"Communications is a serious business". Indian graphic designer and artist, Ms Lakshmi Murthy, should know. Together with Bougainville community broadcaster, Mr Aloysius Laukai, she was presented with The University of Queensland’s top social...

20 October 2009

A new Lancet paper co-authored by a UQ researcher states that Australians are the highest cannabis users in the world, only matched by USA and New Zealand.

20 October 2009

Positive results from consumer testing and nutritional analysis indicate a bright future for a new exotic fruit variety developed by The University of Queensland.

19 October 2009

The majority of classes, research projects and services at The University of Queensland (UQ) will run to schedule tomorrow Tuesday (October 20), despite a strike tactic backed by less than four percent of staff.

19 October 2009

Against tough competition, GRW Industries has won UQ Business School's Enterprize competition to commercialise their revolutionary personal cooling vest for emergency workers and miners.

19 October 2009

A UQ pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative traditional Chinese exercise program on depression and obesity has produced very promising results.

19 October 2009

A joint University of Queensland and Bana Yarralji Bubu Inc. film that celebrates the heritage of the Kuku Nyungkal people from Shipton’s Flat (near Cooktown) will be launched at Home Rule, Rossville on Thursday, October 22.

16 October 2009
Premier Anna Bligh makes the announcement live via video link from Moscow State University

Premier Anna Bligh has announced that the Queensland Government and The University of Queensland (UQ) will renew the state’s first scholarship program for university-level Russian language study.

16 October 2009

Help for those with type 2 diabetes is only a phone call away, thanks to a research team from UQ’s Centre for Online Health.

16 October 2009
Dr Chris Lukey, Chief Technical Officer ToughSkin

A second skin for mining tunnels and water pipes could see ToughSkin take top position in the 2009 UQ Business School Enterprize competition, to be decided this afternoon at The University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

16 October 2009

Providing shelter this fire season might soon be a reality for Encase, when the team compete for $100,000 in the UQBS Enterprize competition this afternoon at the UQ campus at St Lucia.

16 October 2009

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies.

15 October 2009

Nostalgia and imagination are attracting people to a new niche market in tourism, but cold hard facts and plenty of analysis is what has helped two researchers from The University of Queensland write about the phenomenon with considerable success.

15 October 2009
UQ Anthropology Museum Director Dr Diana Young

The new director of UQ’s Anthropology Museum hopes the “hidden gem” under her care will become better known with researchers and the public alike.

15 October 2009
Dr Kathy Townsend prepares to release a sea turtle

UQ’s Dr Kathy Townsend, a marine biologist from the Moreton Bay Research Station, has been awarded an international science prize to continue her work on the impact of marine rubbish on sea turtles.

14 October 2009
The CoolMe vest as worn under Fire and Rescue turnout gear

Emergency workers, sportspeople, and miners are set to benefit from an innovative personal cooling system should GRW Industries win the UQ Business School Enterprize competition.

14 October 2009