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Cutting-edge innovation in Paralympic sport performance will enter a new era after an agreement was signed between Paralympics Australia and key Queensland-based sporting and research bodies including The University of Queensland.

28 May 2021
Professor Parkinson pictured on the ¹ú²ú̽»¨ campus

A parliamentary inquiry has endorsed a law professor’s proposal for a multidisciplinary tribunal to manage parenting disputes for those unable to afford legal representation.

5 May 2021
Researcher in ¹ú²ú̽»¨'s Protein Expression Facility

A pilot facility at The University of Queensland could be producing mRNA vaccines and cancer therapies for research and development within months after receiving backing from the Australian Government.

29 April 2021
Researchers hold up the battery with a pair of tweezers

Faster-charging and more sustainable batteries with a life up to three times greater than lithium ion are being built with technology developed at The University of Queensland.

23 April 2021
Group shot of Pitch Night finalists on stage with Ashley Hanger, the winner, in the middle holding the trophy

A University of Queensland startup ready to help 1.7 million Australian diabetics has won ¹ú²ú̽»¨â€™s top entrepreneurship program, Ventures ilab Accelerator, Pitch Night.

22 April 2021

University of Queensland students are the first cohort to experience interprofessional practice education and training in Metro North Hospital and Health Service’s new Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS).

30 March 2021
Professor Matthew Morell, Director, QAAFI at University of Queensland – with sorghum in glasshouse.

Agriculture has entered a new era where advanced, multidisciplinary sciences are harnessed to meet consumer demands for safe, ethically and sustainably produced foods, according to the incoming director of a key research institute.

26 March 2021
Close up of a plate containing Indigenous food coloured orange and purple

A $1.5 million collaboration between Indigenous Traditional Owners and Custodians and The University of Queensland will boost the burgeoning bushfood industry, and create long-lasting Indigenous businesses.

18 February 2021
Stock image - International Space Station

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are conducting experiments with an antimicrobial surface coating designed to fight the spread of bacteria and viruses.

16 February 2021
A gloved hand holds a petri dish with the CBD molecular structure drawn on the lid.

Synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD, has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.

20 January 2021
Rebecca Gavin and Bec Dunne and flanked by ACCCE staff.

Two University of Queensland students have joined forces with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to contribute to the prevention of child sexual exploitation.

21 December 2020
Dr Joel Carpenter and Dr Mickael Mounaix

Optics researchers from The University of Queensland and Nokia Bell Labs in the US have developed a new technique to demonstrate the time reversal of optical waves, which could transform the fields of advanced biomedical imaging and...

14 December 2020
From left: SQRH Interprofessional Practice Co-ordinator Toni Murray, administration officer Jane White, Bidjara Elder Keelen Mailman and SQRH Director Associate Professor Geoff Argus  in the outdoor education area and yarning circle. SQRH image.

A new training centre nearly 700km west of Brisbane, designed to boost nursing, midwifery and allied health skills in some of Queensland’s most remote areas, officially opened in Charleville today.

19 November 2020
Med students practicing intubating with a dummy on a stretcher. She is bent over the head, while another woman watches

An Australian-first university and hospital partnership is set to train up to 40 doctors in regional Queensland each year.

13 November 2020

Locally made coronavirus proteins produced in a state-of-the-art laboratory in Brisbane are proving highly useful in a sophisticated blood test for COVID-19.

9 November 2020