A research effort to flip carbon dioxide from a climate change problem to a solution has been launched at UQ.
31 July 2024A tech start-up from UQ is set to make efficiencies in the renewable energy sector by detecting faults in solar farm panels.
20 February 2024A tool developed by UQ researchers that measures floodwater depth and velocity will be sold globally after it was licensed to a US-based company.
13 September 2023UQ researchers have worked with industry to map how Australia could move towards decarbonising its heavy haulage rail network.
2 May 2023A new University of Queensland-led training centre is set to become a hub for world-leading research in ‘green’ plastic.
18 August 2022Tiny nanoparticles less than a thousandth of a millimetre in size are providing a promising new method to protect sheep against deadly flystrike, according to University of Queensland research.
30 June 2022The University of Queensland has teamed up with Australia’s largest rail freight operator, Aurizon, on a research project to help reduce the carbon emissions of the company’s locomotive fleet.
6 January 2022A senior lecturer at The University of Queensland is gaining international attention for his innovative efforts to change tertiary level teaching and learning with the help of artificial intelligence.
5 November 2021Australia’s renewable energy research capacity has been boosted with the completion of The University of Queensland’s 64 megawatt solar farm at Warwick in the state’s south east.
17 July 2020Construction of the $125 million UQ Warwick Solar Farm is under way, bringing an injection of economic activity to the town and the Darling Downs region.
18 April 2019Australia’s world-leading expertise in small-scale mining is being showcased to 30 emerging leaders from the African mining sector as they visit the Gladstone and Emerald regions in Central Queensland.
26 February 2019A new process turning waste glass into everyday products could save tens of millions of tonnes of glass from going to landfill every year.
22 February 2019Australia will soon hold the record for the world’s tallest timber office building at 5 King St Brisbane, and with the help of The University of Queensland’s new research hub, wooden skyscrapers could become the norm.
23 November 2017University of Queensland researchers are celebrating a combined multi-million-dollar success in the Queensland Government’s Advance Queensland Fellowships scheme.
24 March 2017An open access Water Atlas has gone online, giving the general public a 3D view of groundwater data from eastern Australia’s Surat Basin.
9 December 2016North Queensland has some of Earth’s largest known bauxite deposits, but their potential has largely remained locked in the ground, until now.
18 August 2016Until 1997, water supplies in downtown Manila were beset with infrastructure problems such as leaks, widespread unauthorised access and contamination.
11 September 2015More than 130 University of Queensland students will take part in short and semester-length programs in the Indo-Pacific region next year.
1 September 2015Sunshine is being turned into energy and knowledge at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus, where the state’s largest solar array was switched on today.
27 March 2015