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PhD student Michael Mersiades spent a month in Shanghai working for a startup company, thanks to the China Mobility Program. A self-confessed language geek, Michael found his skills were in demand.

It’s not every day you come across an instrument made out of fabric but that’s exactly what Trevor Hunter and his team created as part of their Physical Computing and Interaction Design Studio course.

UQ's Professor William Clarke runs Australia's only organic solid waste laboratory in Australia, and he has a few things to say about what we do with our rubbish.

EAIT Faculty's Three Minute Thesis finalist, Timothy Vangsness presents his PhD research project.

EAIT Faculty's Three Minute Thesis runner-up, Sean Johnston presents his PhD research project.

A new well simulator facility has been constructed at UQ's Centre for Coal Seam Gas to help test new borehole plugging technologies.

Eleven University of Queensland students – including mechanical and materials engineering student Michael Merceica and business/IT student Ellen Wright – will represent Australia’s Uniroos at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan.

EAIT Faculty's Three Minute Thesis People's Choice winner, Igor Vassilev presents his PhD research project.

UQ students Daniel Hutchison and Daniel Parnell spent four weeks in Tianjin as part of the Confucius Institute’s 2017 UQ Research, Study and Experience Tour to China. They reflect on their time abroad, and their exposure to a new culture and language.

Dr Vincent Wheatley has a passion for spaceflight and aerospace engineering, but he is equally excited to watch the careers of his students take off.

Emerging industries, from large-scale energy storage to electric cars, will need longer lasting batteries. But to build them, we need to know a lot more about what is limiting battery life.

One of the world’s biggest “hackathons” is back at UQ this month and the event’s participants will be targeting Australian government data.

Prevention is better than a cure, and with Queenslanders suffering the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, early education on sun safety is key. To address this, undergraduate engineering and business student Alana Clover has developed a wearable UV exposure-detecting device.

The focus of research into batteries has undergone a shift from the blue-sky technologies of portable electronics and wearables to improving lithium-ion battery performance. Stephanie Moroz says this is good news for the future of electric vehicles and energy storage.

Jobs of the future will require innovation and entrepreneurial skills and that’s exactly what UQ’s Idea Hub aims to promote.

EAIT Faculty's Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh and the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering's Dr Saiied Aminossadati have been celebrated for their commitment to teaching with prestigious Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowships.

Commercialised flight faster than five times the speed of sound has been brought one step closer, thanks to a successful experimental flight featuring University of Queensland knowhow.

Big plans are being made in space. Investment banks want to mine asteroids for rare, valuable metals. Japan wants to build a solar power station. Billionaire tycoons want to build hotels in orbit for space tourists.

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