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mechanical sensors on a silicon chip

Quantum sensors being developed at ΢Åĸ£Àû could revolutionise navigation and communications in unmanned and autonomous vehicles.

1 February 2019

A new collaboration will help feed the world’s growing demand for poultry and eggs, while minimising the risk to international public health from animal-to-human-diseases.

24 January 2019
΢Åĸ£Àûalumnus Nick Georgiou works his laptop at a Brandtools desk

Just a week into a University of Queensland accelerator program for startups, one of the participants has attracted his first paying customer.

23 January 2019

A streamlined patient risk assessment tool developed by ΢Åĸ£Àû is set to dramatically reduce the amount of paperwork for nursing staff, leaving them more time for patient care.

12 September 2018
Jacaranda trees bloom in front of a sandstone ΢Åĸ£Àûbuilding.

΢Åĸ£Àû has climbed another place in the 2019 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, to be number 48 in the world.

12 September 2018

UniQuest, the commercialisation company of ΢Åĸ£Àû, is today celebrating the creation of more than 100 startups.

7 September 2018
A sorghum crop.

Farmers across the world could soon access disease-resistant crops using technology discovered by researchers from ΢Åĸ£Àû after Brisbane start-up Nexgen Plants secured $3 million in investor backing.

21 August 2018
΢Åĸ£Àûhydrometallurgists Dr James Vaughan

With rising sales of electric cars, a new company developing more efficient production of essential battery materials is raising funds to build a demonstration plant.

9 July 2018
Professor Maree Smith, innovator of the peripheral nervous system pain drug commercialised by UniQuest spin-out Spinifex Pty Ltd, acquired by Novartis in 2015

UniQuest, ΢Åĸ£Àû’s commercialisation company, is leading Australia and competing globally in creating spin-out companies based on academic intellectual property.

4 June 2018
Engineering and business nous in a micro-distillery

More than two centuries after Australia’s infamous Rum Rebellion, a University of Queensland chemical engineering and business graduate has started a new revolution in rum distillation that will help reinvigorate Brisbane’s passion for this ‘...

11 May 2018
A dinosaur illustration from the board game. By Dr Anthony Romilio.

Octopus tree, rainbow serpent and demon duck of doom – they’re all on the cards for future scientists, thanks to a new game from a University of Queensland PhD student.

30 April 2018
Researchers are working to create medical devices.

A new research hub is set to transform Australia’s medical technology sector by developing cost-competitive technologies for the rapid production of medical devices.

27 April 2018
(L-R) ΢Åĸ£ÀûVC Peter Høj, Professor Perry Bartlett, The Honorable Leeanne Enoch MP, Emeritus Professor Andrew Boyd, Professor Pankaj Sah

A potential drug to treat motor neurone disease (MND) is set to emerge from a partnership between ΢Åĸ£Àû and the Queensland Government.

20 April 2018
Mark Hutchinson - ΢Åĸ£Àûalumnus and former CEO and President of General Electric Europe

Ethics in business is the focus of a new million-dollar partnership between ΢Åĸ£Àû and global business leader Mark Hutchinson.

19 March 2018

As Australia and India cultivate closer ties, ΢Åĸ£Àû and one of India’s premier institutes of learning and research have struck a strategic partnership.

1 February 2018