Landholders and community groups who want to know the facts about their rights in relation to potential coal seam gas and mining developments are the big winners from a joint QUT-Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) project.

Parsons Brinckerhoff and the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Oodgeroo Unit are pleased to announce that together they have formed a partnership aimed at increasing Indigenous Australian university participation rates in Queensland via a new program.

It is an imposing room where Queensland's history was made. From the grand deeds of state such as granting Royal Assent to the fledgling Queensland Parliament's acts, to announcing dog pounds and setting the minimum size for chopping down cedar trees - it all happened in the Governor's Library of Old Government House on QUT's Gardens Point campus.

QUT health researchers are on a mission to help Queenslanders prevent skin cancers - and they're focused particularly on men.

A golf cart sized robot that can autonomously navigate its way through a field will soon take the work out of weeding for Queensland farmers.

New mothers throughout Australia are needed to help QUT sleep researchers investigate whether the disrupted sleep experienced by mothers when caring for their new baby raises the risk of injury while driving.