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These three-year fellowships foster the development of promising ECRs and reward exceptional mid-career and senior academic staff.

In 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during his final match of the Chess Olympiad in Norway. Within hours, another was found dead in his hotel room. Earlier, a chess grandmaster died of a heart attack while playing a tournament game in Finland in 2000. Within the same year, another player died after having a stroke during his tournament in Berlin.

These incidents led many to believe the stress of playing chess could be harmful and even fatal. So we decided to test the theory playing chess at an elite level elevates the risk of premature death.

Eminent School of Economics researcher, Dr Ian MacKenzie, presents solutions for Australia following the decision by China to no longer accept our recycling waste.

The UQ Confucius Institute in collaboration with the School of Economics has designed a new training course to provide insights into the culture and life of students coming from China to study at UQ.

Professor John Quiggin wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times on 6 March 2018 outlining his views on millennial.

Professor Andrew McLennan is an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of mathematical economics and game theory. In this Q&A, he provides some insight into the world of game theory, his current and future projects, and the value of his research.

Professor John Quiggin has written an opinion piece for the New York Times about what bitcoin reveals about our financial markets. The full article can be viewed on the New York Times website.

For more than 30 years, Professor Andrew McLennan has been working to complete our knowledge of the Nash equilibria.

Australia's Emissions Reduction Fund is almost empty. It shouldn't be refilled.

The University of Queensland’s month-long #UQLife festival wraps up this week with Success Week.

More than 150 students from The University of Queensland embarked on their journey towards career success at the first BEL SET Employability Conference for 2018.

The University of Queensland St Lucia will showcase all that its diverse cultural and global networks have to offer during Culture Week, the latest instalment of the four-week #UQLife festival.

New and returning students at The University of Queensland will cross paths for the first time this week, as classes – and Connect Week – officially begin.

The University of Queensland welcomes more than 10,000 new undergraduate and postgraduate students this week to #UQLife – a fun-filled four-week festival of orientation activities and events.

The University of Queensland has appointed a Chief Student Entrepreneur to inspire and mentor young innovators.

University of Queensland graduates have garnered some of the highest levels of employer satisfaction in Australia in a survey released on 8 January.

The Bachelor of Economics student graduates from The University of Queensland’s School of Economics this week as valedictorian, having maintained a perfect GPA of 7

Two University of Queensland students have developed a framework to determine the short-term and long-term commercial effects of terrorism thanks to a scholarship established by UQ alumni.

After more than a century of graduations, Queensland’s largest university is celebrating a major milestone this December: 250,000 graduates.

Outstanding academic and professional staff have been recognised at UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law staff excellence awards.