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From designing smart communities to discussing ideas around energy, water and health and information engineering, postgraduate students from the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology seized the opportunity to showcase their latest work at the 10TH annual EAIT Postgraduate Conference.

Whether it’s becoming a video game designer building online worlds for the masses or a data scientist spotting trends across the health or legal industries, the list of IT-based careers that today’s teens can pursue continues to grow.

An engineering breakthrough that can reduce major urban bridgeworks projects from months or even years to just three days is set to save time, money and inconvenience worldwide.

AN AWARD winning house in Brisbane could be the answer to increasing density in our inner-city suburbs without destroying the character. The One Room Tower is a creative extension built next to a character home in Brisbane’s West End.

UniQuest, UQ's commercialisation company, is leading Australia and competing globally in creating spin-out companies based on academic intellectual property.

A NEW photographic exhibition has opened at the Mount Isa Civic Centre.

University of Queensland researchers have complied an exhibition titled Meston's Wild Australia Show 1892-1893.

Is this the skinniest house ever? Designed by UQ Architecture PhD student Kirsty Volz and David Toussaint, the site occupies a mere 317m2 and has a street frontage of only 2.3m.

Spending her holiday sitting beside a hospital bed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany has turned into a month long European research tour for EAIT’s Dr Marie Boden.

A University of Queensland research project to revolutionise the treatment of wastewater has won a national research innovation prize.

The federal government has released its response to the review of Australia’s Space Capability. Professor Michael Smart of the UQ Center for Hypersonics has responded with an article on The Conversation.

Australia’s recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling.

More than two centuries after Australia’s infamous Rum Rebellion, a University of Queensland chemical engineering and business graduate has started a new revolution in rum distillation that will help reinvigorate Brisbane’s passion for this ‘Australian liquor’.

A simple method to determine if fossil fuel producers are on track to meet global emission reduction targets has been developed by UQ researchers, including Associate Professor Kate O'Brien from The School of Chemical Engineering.

In a plan to manage the impact of an ever-changing Australian shoreline and significant storm-induced coastal erosion, UQ researchers have created a new tool kit to help coastal managers better understand how beaches are impacted by storm events.

UQ has launched the new Master of Engineering in Urban Water Engineering at the world's largest water conference, Ozwater '18 in Brisbane.

Industry partners have thrown their support behind the University of Queensland Women in Engineering program, which has prompted a steady increase in women participating in undergraduate engineering studies.

Sustainable transport and electric vehicle expert Dr Jake Whitehead spoke with Brisbane City Council's sustainability team at City Smart to share how households might be travelling 10 years from now.

A new research hub is set to transform Australia’s medical technology sector by developing cost-competitive technologies for the rapid production of medical devices.

Sunshine Coast Council managers, analysts and planners visited UQ to explore innovative initiatives that could form part of the Sunshine Coast’s Smart City Program.

Australian netball vice-captain Gabi Simpson and national gymnastics champion Michael Mercieca have been named UQ's Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year.