- Many older people fear losing their driver’s licence and what it may mean for their independence, but UQ researchers hope a new fitness-to-drive assessment test will help end the confusion and steer difficult conversations in a new direction.
- Some of us love to be tucked up in bed by a particular time every night, others go to bed when they start to feel tired. But does it matter what time you go to bed?
- The Queensland Government and The University of Queensland have each committed $44 million funding to establish a world-leading Paralympic Centre of Excellence at UQ’s St Lucia campus.
- Recruitment is underway for a pivotal proof-of-concept human trial of The University of Queensland’s second-generation molecular clamp vaccine.
- With interests rates continuing to rise this year, many home owners are wondering if they will ever experience a reprieve. UQ Senior Lecturer in Finance Dr Lin Mi tells us what she thinks will happen next, and what the latest research is saying about property prices.
- UQ alum Ellie Buttrose is putting Australian art in the spotlight as curator for the 2024 Venice Biennale.
- Gloria, a beloved pet green tree python, bit off more than she could chew and ingested a puppy pee pad along with her dinner. Luckily, her owners noticed something was amiss, and took the snake to the UQ VETS clinic at Gatton for treatment.
- Here are 10 practical ways you can protect your digital footprint and limit the fallout from data breaches and exploitation of your personally identifiable information.
- On the southern side of the Great Barrier Reef lies a marine wonderland of unparalleled beauty. Contact spoke to Heron Island researchers and visitors for our latest stop on the UQ Regional Roadshow to hear their most amazing tales from the reef.
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- LISTEN: On the 20th anniversary of September 11, UQ MBA graduate and Special Agent Fred Bradford reflects on the day that changed his career, and the world, forever.
- Professor Peter Greste spent time in Afghanistan in the 1990s as a reporter for the BBC. In the wake of the crisis unfolding in the country, Professor Greste analyses the Taliban's beginnings and their eventual return to power.
- Queensland MPs will cast a conscience vote on Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in September. UQ experts discuss what is VAD? Do we need it? And how would it work?
- As the Taliban takes back control of Afghanistan, UQ experts explain the impact on its people, the region and international relations?
- The logical evidence is well and truly stacked against conspiracy theories, yet they continue to attract countless followers. The question for many people is: why?
- Buying a house is not an impossible task – it just needs a little planning and a lot of discipline. Here are three things you should know before you jump in.
- Deputy Director (Research) at UQ’s Parenting and Family Support Centre Associate Professor Alina Morawska shares her top tips for parents to help their children cope with the stress and anxiety of COVID-19.
- Get the inside story behind the heroics of UQ’s Olympic athletes.
- Meet the UQ graduate who flew the farming coop, only to return with a whole new approach to agriculture.
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- What did a news ban achieve and what will a new bargaining code mean for Australia's media landscape?
- UQ experts have their say on what the permanent fall-out of the pandemic will be on our business culture and, more broadly, how Brisbane will change?
- The keenly anticipated ES Meyers Memorial Lecture returns to UQ on 6 March this year with highly regarded gynaecologist Dr Vijay Roach confirmed as the guest speaker.
- Meet the UQ graduate behind the first COVID-19 home diagnostic tool.
- Amidst the re-assessments taking place as a result of COVID-19, there is an invaluable opportunity for businesses to rethink the purpose and nature of innovation.
- While the UQ COVID-19 vaccine won’t to be rolled out to fight this global pandemic, the University’s researchers have made remarkable progress, and they are confident their powerful vaccine platform will be ready for when the world faces another health crisis.
- Australia’s renewable energy research capacity has been boosted with the completion of the UQ Warwick Solar Farm in 2020. UQ students are also gaining valuable experience that will help Queensland reach its renewable energy targets by 2030.
- The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, with the impacts expected to last well into 2021 and beyond. Professor Shaun Bond, UQ’s Frank Finn Professor of Finance, considers some specific steps.
- How two friends banded together to launch a free screen reader and open up technology to the vision-impaired community.
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- UQ graduate Elliot Stein analyses what a Joe Biden presidency will mean for Australia.
- Less than a week out from the US election, the world is waiting for an outcome that will have huge ramifications both in the US and across the globe.
- With this year’s turbulent onset of COVID-19, we are reminded that life can change suddenly, along with assumptions about ‘jobs of the future’ or what constitutes a ‘safe’ career.
- UQ graduate and award-winning journalist and author Madonna King shares key insights from her discussions with 2020 Alumni Award recipients.
- UQ graduate and journalist Andrew Kidd Fraser reflects on his long career in print and sheds light on what he believes we can expect for the future of print media.
- Queenslanders will vote in a state election on 31 October. In the midst of a global pandemic, it will be a campaign like never before.
- Watershed moments – where passion and outcry finally boil over into social change – always generate strong debate at the time, but ultimately shape the course of world history.
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