Collaborating to change the world
UQ has strong ties with the USA, including strategic partnerships with Emory University and Washington University in St Louis, and academic links with Harvard and Stanford. In addition, backing for key projects from leading companies and organisations like Boeing, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Dow Chemical Company is empowering UQ and our US partners to create change for an increasingly connected global community.
Fast facts
645
US students enrolled at UQ
1,639
USA-UQ co-publications
104
academic staff born in the USA
318
research project collaborations
12,815
alumni in the USA
46
agreements with 33 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2023 data.
Collaboration in action
- MD-PhD candidate, Cody Frear, won the University of Queensland Three Minute Thesis Competition in September this year, and then went on to represent UQ at the Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition finals in October – and won – again!
- University of Queensland scientists have provided new insights into how the tiny brains of mantis shrimp are able to make sense of a breathtaking amount of visual input.
The study may help researchers better understand the evolution of colour vision in the animal kingdom. - Ten collaborative projects have been approved for $77,138 in funding in the second round of the 2019 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme.
- A free online University of Queensland course aimed at community development workers has received a United Nations accolade.
- An Aboriginal writer who ‘gained a second chance at life’ following treatment for a rare cancer has become the first Indigenous recipient of the Fulbright W.G. Walker scholarship.
- Eleven collaborative research projects have been approved for $73,425 in funding in the second round of the 2018 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme. A total of 28 eligible applications were received for this round amounting to more than $220,000 in requested funding.
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Alumni
The USA is home to UQ’s largest alumni network outside Australia - UQ has 12,815 alumni living in the USA. Alumni with significant links to the USA include: