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
- Two innovative and sustainable projects have been approved for US$20,000 in funding in the 2021 Emory-UQ Collaborative Partnership Research Grant.
- All of the world’s shallow coral reefs have been digitally mapped, thanks to a three-year project combining two million satellite images, enormous amounts of field data and University of Queensland-developed mapping techniques.
- A whopping 191 different bat species live in the Pacific Islands across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia — but these are, collectively, the most imperilled in the world. In fact, five of the nine bat species that have gone extinct in the last 160 years have come from this region.
- An international study has found a global target to eradicate childhood anaemia by 2030 will fail, presenting a major public health challenge.
- 10 collaborative research projects have been approved for $80,236 in funding in the 2021 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme. A total of 17 eligible applications were received for this round amounting to $147,067 in requested funding.
- UQ has delivered the Hexapro vaccine candidate from the US with the Vaxxas high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP).
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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: