Chilean engineering student Samuel Valdes (right) discusses a research project with Professor Paul Strooper, Head of School, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.

A trip to Brisbane has given a group of ambitious Chilean engineering students a new understanding of the role that research and commercialisation will play in their future careers.

26 April 2012
The Transparent Electrodes for Plastic Electronics Research Cluster seeks to develop lower-cost flexible optoelectronic solutions that could transform the Australian consumer electronics industry.

A group of leading Australian scientists has come together to develop lower-cost flexible optoelectronic solutions that could transform the Australian consumer electronics industry.

26 April 2012
UQ Tourism students at the Dreamworld field trip

University of Queensland School of Tourism students exchanged the lecture room for roller coasters and adventure rides as part of the TOUR7003 Tourism, Travel and Hospitality Foundations course.

26 April 2012

A TEAM led by UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation has developed a comprehensive research program aimed at protecting Australia’s $450 million banana industry.

26 April 2012

Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a UQ-hosted conference recently.

26 April 2012
Professor Peter Høj

The University of Queensland has appointed Professor Peter Høj as its new Vice-Chancellor and President.

26 April 2012

Over 550 Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE-UQ) students have ranked their ICTE-UQ experience as one of the best in Australia.

24 April 2012
UQ Gatton residents taking part in 2012 Relay for Life

Camping, moon light walking, zumba and hay bale races were just some of the attractions on offer at the Cancer Council Lockyer Valley Relay for Life.

24 April 2012

International expert Dr Saleem Ali has been appointed the Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), at The University of Queensland (UQ).

24 April 2012
Female cassowary with satellite transmitter on her upper leg.

Wildlife researchers say they are making the cassowary conservation dollar go further by tracking the birds with satellite tags.

24 April 2012

UQ's 10th annual Diversity Week (May 21-25) this year has secured three highly regarded speakers as well as the much sought after media personality, Mr Richard Fidler, as facilitator at the Vice-Chancellor's Equity and Diversity Awards presentation...

24 April 2012

Undergraduate students from The University of Queensland’s School of Biological Sciences have embarked on a project to document the unique biodiversity that exists in Australia’s coral reefs.

23 April 2012

A University of Queensland project is piecing together a little-known aspect of Australia’s war history that may bring comfort and understanding to families.

23 April 2012
Catherine Drummond … working in Rwanda at a "unique, transitory time"

UQ students are working around the globe in the midst of important legal, political and diplomatic events, after taking up internships with organisations such as NATO and the United Nations.

23 April 2012

Students enrolled in MARS2005 Australia's Marine Environment are given the opportunity to explore Heron Island and its surrounding coral reefs.

23 April 2012

Researchers are working to determine whether poor dental health can influence children to eat unhealthy food, placing them at higher risk of obesity and chronic disease in later life.

20 April 2012

The University of Queensland Pipe Band at Emmanuel College has had a successful result at the 2012 Australian Pipe Band Championships in Ballarat.

20 April 2012

Fifty years ago, in April 1962, The University of Queensland commissioned the first-ever digital computer in Queensland – a General Electric GE225.

20 April 2012

Imagining a rosy future is key to present-day happiness, new research in Australia and China has found.

20 April 2012

Ocean acidification caused by human development can alter the behaviour of baby corals, a new study shows.

16 April 2012