Collaborating to change the world
The United States is a key strategic partner for UQ—driving research excellence, innovation and global impact. Engagement includes long-standing partnerships with Emory University and Washington University in St Louis, alongside strong academic links with leading institutions such as Harvard and Stanford. Support from major organisations—including Boeing, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and the National Institutes of Health—enables UQ and its US partners to translate research into solutions that benefit an increasingly connected global community.
Fast facts
594
US students enrolled at UQ
1,441
USA-UQ co-publications
93
academic staff born in the USA
147
research project collaborations
13,639
alumni in the USA
48
agreements with 38 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2025 data.
Collaboration in action
- Venom from spitting cobras has evolved to cause predators extreme pain as a form of self-defence, rather than for capturing prey, according to new research.
- A PhD Candidate in UQ’s School of Education, Ms Madsen will use this scholarship to look at funding as a form of policy enactment within Indigenous education.
- A University of Queensland imaging scientist has secured more than $800,000 (US$595,000) to help unlock scientific discoveries by improving the use of big data from Australia’s most advanced microscopes.
- Nine collaborative projects have been approved for $85,384 in funding in the 2020 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme.
- A University of Queensland-led team of international researchers says supercharged “clones” of the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes are to blame for the resurgence of the disease, which has caused high death rates for centuries.
- Why back pain persists in some cases but not others will be the focus of an international study, which has received more than $1.4 million in funding from the US Department of Defense.
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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: