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Researchers from The University of Queensland have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory.

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to more efficiently convert sugarcane into a building block of aviation fuel and other products.

The UQ-IITD Academy of Research held the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition in November 2. The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research within three minutes to a general audience.

IMB researcher Dr Clara Jiang was invited to present her research into how genomics data can be used to explore opportunities to repurpose drugs at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2022 in Berlin.

Six UQ undergraduate students are heading overseas after being awarded prestigious scholarships under the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan (NCP).

A $15 million collaboration between UQ and the German Research Foundation (DFG), including research from Justun Liebig University (JLU), will accelerate genetic improvements in cereal and pulse crops.

There is always a uniqueness about being an international student in Australia. Perhaps it is about being a multilingual and multicultural person in an English-speaking country, or there is still something that I want to learn more about in the multicultural community of UQ and Australia in general. Well, accepting my International Onshore Merit Scholarship is the way to find out.

Queensland will become a global mRNA vaccine hub with a $280 million Translational Science Hub to be established in Queensland. The Hub will link leading Queensland researchers with scientists at the Sanofi mRNA Centre of Excellence in France and the United States.

A fast, needle-free malaria detection tool developed by researchers from UQ and Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil, could help save hundreds of thousands of lives annually.

Researchers from UQ, Argentina and Spain have created the world's first successful donkey embryo using IVF, which could save dozens of endangered donkey species.

I am a first-year Master of Mental Health student at The University of Queensland (UQ). I am also a mother of a two-year-old daughter, a wife, a sister, a daughter, and a development worker.
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It still feels surreal that for the past 2 months, I’ve been living and breathing this Brisbane air.
I remember being back in Singapore and wondering, “Will I be able to make friends and explore Brisbane? Will I be too caught up in my studies?” The answer to the former is yes (thankfully) and as for the latter, we’ll talk about it soon.

Research co-led by UQ and Carnegie Mellon University has found sharing real-time air quality readings in developing countries can reduce air pollution and lead to lower mortality rates.

A study from UQ, together with the University of Adelaide, UWA and the University of Bristol in the UK, has found no link between community water fluoridation and adverse effects on children's brain development.

Across more than 40 years as an archaeologist, UQ's Professor Marshall Weisler has spent much of his life in some of the world's most fascinating and untouched corners – isolated villages, an uninhabited island, and communities across Polynesia, Micronesia, Hawaii and New Zealand – all in the name of discovering what makes us human.

Studying at UQ enriched my experience working with diverse individuals worldwide.

The UQ–IITD Academy of Research has hit a major milestone, celebrating the enrolment of its 100th PhD student.

The US Department of Defense has awarded funding to UQ researchers to combat an expected escalation of skin cancer cases in US troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Following the competitive selection process, nine outstanding initiatives have received funding totalling $76,660 in the latest UQ Global Strategy and Partnership Seed Funding Scheme.

UQ, Oxford and Princeton researchers have developed a "test" to measure if businesses are on track to meet Paris Agreement climate action goals, and so far the results are not promising.