Nearly half of Brisbane-dwellers, particularly office workers, had inadequate levels of vitamin D, new research from Queensland University of Technology has shown.

Three QUT researchers from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) will head to San Diego in June to represent the university at BIO2008, the largest biotechnology event in the world.

Blocking students' use of Web 2.0 sites - blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and chat - at school could exclude them from valuable educational opportunities as well as heighten social exclusion, particularly in remote and Indigenous communities.

Professor Elizabeth Beattie is the newest nursing professor appointed to Queensland University of Technology's Faculty of Health.

He ran his first marathon at 18, and now, at just 21, Queensland University of Technology podiatry student Aidan Hobbs has won the Brisbane Marathon.

With wealthy Australians less charitable givers than their global counterparts, a Queensland University of Technology survey will explore the role financial planners and related professionals play in getting people to make donations.