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΢ĸBachelor of Architectural Design students who each received $2700 grants to take part in a design studio project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this year.

More than 130 University of Queensland students will take part in short and semester-length programs in the Indo-Pacific region next year.

1 September 2015

The Australian Research Council has announced more than $8 million in funding for 22 University of Queensland-led research projects aimed at tackling health, energy, environment and infrastructure issues.

8 July 2015
΢ĸpain researcher Professor Maree Smith.

A chronic pain treatment discovered at ΢ĸ is a step closer to clinical use with a global pharmaceutical giant acquiring the Australian-founded company developing the drug.

29 June 2015
In the project, police and schools form a partnership to discourage at-risk youth from embarking on a downward spiral of school truancy and entering the criminal justice system.

΢ĸ’s Professor Lorraine Mazerolle last night told an international gathering of more than 500 criminologists how a five-year trial successfully reduced truancy among at-risk youth in Queensland.

10 June 2015
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Three hundred Brisbane adults aged over 65 years are set to benefit from a $1.3 million joint Burnie Brae Centre and University of Queensland project to boost strength and balance.

26 May 2015
Associate Professor Christine Wells ... "making good quality data available, easy to use and shareable ... can lead to major discoveries".

Associate Professor Christine Wells from ΢ĸ has won a $50,000 prize for leadership in stem cell research.

13 May 2015
The collaboration fosters medical innovation by bringing together complementary skills.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and UniQuest have formed an “open innovation” program to support academic research that holds promise of new therapeutic drugs.

30 April 2015
΢ĸQBI researcher Professor Pankaj Sah has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the new journal.

Science’s brightest minds will gather at ΢ĸ on 24 April to lead the Science of Learning symposium, celebrating Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) new open access research journal, the npj Science of Learning.

23 April 2015
University of Queensland academics have weighed in on the topic of bullying in school sport.

A new ‎Australian anti-bullying documentary takes the battle to the school-yard, with two University of Queensland academics weighing in on the topic of bullying in school sport.

31 March 2015
The 3.275 megawatt array is built on a 10ha former airstrip

Sunshine is being turned into energy and knowledge at ΢ĸ’s Gatton campus, where the state’s largest solar array was switched on today.

27 March 2015
The ambassadors are required to use social media to tell their networks the “Brisbane story” through their eyes, especially in their home countries.

Twenty-six new honorary international student ambassadors have been named in Brisbane, nine from ΢ĸ.

23 March 2015
An Australian Tarantula. Credit - Bastian Rast.

University of Queensland researchers have found seven peptides (mini-proteins) in spider venom that block the molecular pathway responsible for sending pain signals from nerves to the brain.

4 March 2015
The perfect foam on a head of beer is worth a lot to the beer consumer. IstockPhoto

A team of ΢ĸscientists has been tasked with prescribing the unique molecular signature of Queensland’s famous XXXX beer. The scientists are, for the first time, revealing the full profile of all the molecular components that give beer its flavour...

17 December 2014
Professor Sarah Springman CBE will present this year’s Seymour Whyte Distinguished Lecture for Women in Civil Engineering on Friday, 31 October.

The challenges facing women in the male-dominated field of engineering are the focus of a recent partnership between ΢ĸ and construction industry leader, Seymour Whyte.

31 October 2014
Journalism students meet with lecturer Bruce Woolley to discuss reporting on the G20.

University of Queensland journalism students will take Brisbane news to the global stage when they report on the G20 summit in November.

30 October 2014