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UQ's Women in Engineering team has joined forces with community organisation Engineers Without Borders on a road trip across Queensland's Darling Downs, sharing valuable insights about careers in STEM with high school teenagers from the bush.

Urban life on floating structures at sea is no longer something just to be found in science fiction, with experts estimating that large scale platforms could be a reality in less than a decade. Professor CM Wang talks to Channel News Asia.

A UQ civil engineering team, led by Associate Professor Dilum Fernando has been recognised for their outstanding innovative work by the President of the Portuguese Republic.

How we get around our cities and towns could be revolutionised through a new partnership between The University of Queensland and industry.

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.

Construction 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.

The contribution, success and achievements of The University of Queensland’s Emeritus Professor David St John was celebrated by his colleagues and industry at a recent honorary symposium in his name at a conference in San Antonio, USA.

Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison, have raised the question of electric vehicles’ capacity for “grunt”.

An international team of researchers has discovered a cost-effective way to generate electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions – while also reducing air pollution.

Experiments furthering humanity’s ambitions in space are to be launched later this week by University of Queensland students.

There are currently more than 24 categories of scholarships open for applications, including 22 scholarships generously funded by Rio Tinto.

In July 2019, some of the biggest names in timber construction will gather in Brisbane for the 5th Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC 2019).

Australia’s architectural landscape has been missing a socially critical layer: the acknowledgement of a history of Indigenous architecture and landscape cultural histories. This recognition is vital to the cultural needs of Australia’s Indigenous people.

UQ's reputation as a mining engineering educational powerhouse held strong at the 41st International Mining Games in Virginia City, USA.

One of Australia’s leading mining company executives, Sandeep Biswas, says getting social licence ‘right’ is just one of the issues the industry must address for greater success in the future.

UQ alumna Samantha Cridland always had a natural curiosity for science, but she didn’t realise the impact that she could have through a career in engineering until she was introduced to the National Youth Science Forum.

The home loan market could soon be disrupted thanks to cross-disciplinary research by a UQ student team in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank.

The top-performing five per cent of students across EAIT were recognised and celebrated for their leadership in the University’s community and for their academic achievements.

The University of Queensland and Cricket Australia are developing a new standard to give community cricket clubs and associations access to high quality, competitively-priced cricket balls.

BMT and UQ to recreate 3D artificial coral structures that will help protect the remaining reef, promote new growth and restore depleted coral-reef fish populations