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A team of University of Queensland researchers will join forces with 40 other organisations to form a new cooperative research centre (CRC), set to improve Australian seafood and offshore renewable energy production.

Thrifty parents in low-income households could be inadvertently encouraging unhealthy fussy eating habits in their children.
University of Queensland researcher Professor Karen Thorpe said parents in poorer households were keenly aware that uneaten food amounted to extra strains on household resources.

Australians’ willingness to accept immigrants and asylum seekers is heavily influenced by the neighbourhoods they live in, a University of Queensland researcher has found.

Executive Dean Professor Heather Zwicker hosted a series of lightning talks by HASS researchers at the Humanities for the Future event on Thursday, 4 April 2019. 

A UQ alumnus has been named one of our nations top educators.

The legacy of languages pioneer Associate Professor Max Brändle will continue to live on at The University of Queensland after his recent passing.

First-year student Elena James has been kicking goals since she began her journey at The University of Queensland earlier this year.
After a competitive audition process, she was named Assistant Concertmaster for UQ’s Symphony Orchestra (UQSO) and a 2019 Kinnane Scholar; all before she’d even attended her first lecture.

The University of Queensland’s ensemble in residence, the Tinalley String Quartet have released their second album Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 on the Decca/ Universal label.

Two University of Queensland postgraduate students have been recognised among the nation’s brightest, named as 2019 Westpac Future Leaders Scholars.