Two of Australia's leading universities have formed a strategic partnership to oversee the establishment of a national centre for rural and regional innovation.

16 November 1999

The University of Queensland will share in more than $7 million funding for Special Research Centres in the Australian Research Council's 2000 grants round.

27 October 1999

The University of Queensland's Solar Racing Team is confident the most technologically advanced SunShark yet is a serious line-honours contender in the open class of the 3010km World Solar Challenge which begins on October 17.

12 October 1999

Humanitarian aid may have gone from textbook to daily reality for East Timor-based INTERFET advisor Major David Freeman but his academic excellence will be recognised in Brisbane today, Friday, October 8.

8 October 1999

The University of Queensland will lead an international project to flight test the supersonic combustion process used in a scramjet for the first time in the world.

7 September 1999

A work-based learning program for engineering students has won the University of Queensland a prestigious national teaching organisational development gran

31 August 1999

One of the world's largest agribusiness banks, Rabobank, and the University of Queensland, today launched what is believed to be the first Australasian executive development program for primary producers.

12 April 1999

The University of Queensland's governing Senate has re-elected Sir Llew Edwards, AC as Chancellor and elected Mr Robert Wensley, QC as Deputy-Chancellor.

12 February 1999

Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has been appointed an adjunct professor with the University of Queensland's T.C. Beirne School of Law.

1 February 1999

The University of Queensland, which earlier this year was named Australia's University of the Year, has scored an unprecedented double by winning three 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching - the most by any Australian university.

23 November 1998

Australia's 1998 University of the Year, University of Queensland, will enter Monday night's announcements and presentations of the 1998 Australian Awards for University Teaching as the nation's best represented university.

18 November 1998

Chair of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Professor Vicki Sara will be guest speaker at one of two University of Queensland graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on Friday, August 7.

6 August 1998

The University of Queensland's national dominance of two key outcomes of higher education has been independently recognised with a coveted national award.

23 July 1998

One of Australia's leading fiction writers, Elizabeth Jolley, and Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush will address graduates at University of Queensland graduation ceremonies on Friday, December 19.

15 December 1997

The University of Queensland has maintained its position as one of the nation's leading research universities by attracting the fourth highest number of new large project grants, in 1998 allocations from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

27 November 1997

The University of Queensland will award 72 medals for outstanding scholarship at graduation ceremonies at Mayne Hall, St Lucia on May 12 and May 14.

9 May 1997

The University of Queensland soon expects to announce a second round of adjunct professors to be appointed from second semester 1997.

24 April 1997

Two University of Queensland academics have been awarded $1.8 million, the only grant made to Queensland under a new Federal Government program to commercialise Australia's "smarts."

3 April 1997