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
636
US students enrolled at UQ
1,353
USA-UQ co-publications
91
academic staff born in the USA
151
research project collaborations
13,105
alumni in the USA
48
agreements with 35 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2023 data.
Collaboration in action
- As the world looks to tighten up the illegal capture of wildlife, migratory birds are being threatened by widespread and unsustainable hunting across the Asia-Pacific region.
- A new mathematical framework that mimics the spread of a virus using mobile phone technology could lead to safer and more effective easing of social distancing.
- Conservation researchers have debated two different approaches to protecting biodiversity for years, but an international team of scientists has found a combination could achieve the best results.
- An international team of researchers has tested more than 10,000 compounds to identify six drug candidates that may help treat COVID-19.
- Across UQ, nearly 100 researchers from a range of disciplines are banding together to prevent, better diagnose and treat breast cancer – an insidious disease that affects millions of lives around the world each year.
- Compounds containing metals could hold the key to the next generation of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of global antibiotic resistance.
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Alumni
The USA is home to UQ’s largest alumni network outside Australia - UQ has 13,105 alumni living in the USA. Alumni with significant links to the USA include: