Uncategorized

The University of Queensland has ranked ninth in the world for Nursing in global subject rankings released last week. UQ is the only Australian university with four subjects ranked in the top 10 in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects and is placed within the top 50 in 19 of 54 subjects. UQ Faculty of Health…

A superfood bread roll made with Australian native bush foods and developed by University of Queensland researchers is now on the menu at Qantas Club in Darwin. UQ’s Associate Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa worked with Indigenous employment provider Karen Sheldon Group to develop a healthy, long-life wholemeal bread using wattle seed and Kakadu plum rather than…

The University of Queensland is number one in Australia in the Nature Index of high-quality research outputs, maintaining the coveted position in the annual table. UQ continued its climb up the global Nature rankings, to be 79th in the world from all research institutions, up from 110th last year. President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj…

The University of Queensland has climbed higher in two global university ranking tables, enhancing its position among the world’s top 50 and confirming it as number one in the state. UQ moved to 47th in the 2020 QS World University Rankings, and jumped to 40th  – its highest-ever position – in National Taiwan University’s Performance Ranking of Scientific…

A possible drug target for chronic liver disease has been identified by an international research collaboration involving a University of Queensland team. Professor Matt Sweet and Dr Divya Ramnath from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) worked with the study’s senior author Dr Ekihiro Seki from Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, to identify genes linked to…