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A new research collaboration led by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Child Health Research Centre and funded by Queensland’s Children’s Hospital Foundation aims to help children with disfigurements feel better about themselves.

22 September 2016

If you’re a leader who wants to be perceived as charismatic, you’re better off dead.

22 September 2016
Entrepreneurs set for speed dates with mentors

Budding entrepreneurs all over Queensland will have a chance to workshop their start-up ideas with mentors as part of the MentorBlaze7 event on Wednesday 5 October.

22 September 2016
Mentors encourage parents to interact with children

An extensive European trial has shown that incorporating Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Triple P – Positive Parenting Program into a home visiting program can improve children’s cognitive development.

22 September 2016

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has confirmed its status as one of the world’s top universities, placing 60th internationally and 3rd in Australia in a prestigious global ranking.

22 September 2016
Dr Michael Finnegan.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland will host one of the world’s most respected forensic anthropologists when Dr Michael Finnegan delivers a guest lecture later this month.

21 September 2016
Clown trigger fish

Researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland have established that reef fish see colours that humans cannot.

21 September 2016

A $1.8 million partnership between Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology and Dreamworld will see the Gold Coast theme park’s zoological department used as living koala genome bank to save the threatened species.

21 September 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ is offering a new data science course.

Whether we are aware of it or not, data is all around us. But what role does big data play in our lives and how could it help create a better world?

21 September 2016
Riara University staff and students receiving the textbooks.

A university in Kenya has more than 7000 new textbooks, thanks to University of Queensland students who refused to end their community project at the planning stage.

21 September 2016
Staying mobile via public transport can help with social activities

Stopping driving is linked to depression in older women, but the negative mental effects can be buffered by maintaining social contact and participating in social activities.

21 September 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ will offer a Leadership in Global Development MicroMasters.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has joined forces with other leading international universities to offer students flexible, affordable credentials for career advancement and an accelerated Masters degree.

21 September 2016
Spoonbills near Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s Moreton Bay Research Station. Photo by Lucy Trippett.

The future of Moreton Bay will be the focus of a public regional forum at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s St Lucia campus from 1-3 November.

20 September 2016
The study looked at Bifidobacteria in children who had been exclusively breastfed for at least four months.

University of Queensland researchers have found that a genetic variation affecting the composition of a mother’s breast milk could have a lasting impact on the gut health of her child.

20 September 2016

Issues critical to communities across the world will be discussed at an international symposium in Brisbane from September 22 to 25.

20 September 2016
Swipe and spit for postpartum depression

Does genetic susceptibility predispose women to postpartum depression? Researchers from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland are calling on Australian mothers to help them find out.

20 September 2016

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has joined the Universities Australia and the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct a broad-reaching survey of students and their experiences of sexual harassment.

19 September 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ student Brenden Hall.

University of Queensland student Brenden Hall has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, with Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­-affiliated athletes claiming an additional three medals from the games.

19 September 2016
Professor Paul Colditz and Professor Roslyn Boyd with the first preterm baby to be scanned using the MR compatible incubator, which is used to detect cerebral palsy.

University of Queensland research to battle superbugs, save koalas, produce advanced manufacturing materials, help infants with cerebral palsy and more has attracted $4.87 million in Queensland Government funding.

19 September 2016

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) division has released an issues paper designed to improve service delivery, limit costs and invest more in the student experience.

15 September 2016