The University of Queensland, is an Australian public research university primarily located in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. Founded in 1909, UQ is one of Australia's oldest, most selective and comprehensive universities. The main campus is located in St Lucia, southwest of the Brisbane City Central Business District, with other major UQ campuses in Gatton, Herston and Ochsner Medical Center's clinical school at New Orleans, United States of America. The University of Queensland is a member of the Australia's research-intensive Group of Eight, the global network of research universities Universitas 21 and a founding charter member of EdX, an online higher education consortium led by Harvard and MIT.
Research achievements at UQ includes pioneering the cervical cancer vaccine invention and development of high performance superconducting MRI magnets for portable MRI scanning of human limbs. UQ has produced numerous distinguished alumni with significant contributions to Asia Pacific and throughout the world. Several notable examples include the Nobel Laureate winning scientist Dr Peter Doherty, "Triple Crown of Acting": Primetime Emmy Award, Tony Award and Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, three times Grammy award winning musician Tim Munro, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Sir Gerard Brennan, Chancellor of University of California, San Francisco Dr Sam Hawgood, Principal of King's College London Dr Edward Byrne, CEO of Dow Chemical the second-largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue Andrew N. Liveris, first female Governor-General of Australia Dame Quentin Bryce, former Singapore's Minister for Defence, Minister for Manpower, present Chairman of Keppel Corporation and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) Dr Lee Boon Yang, consecutive Olympics gold medal winner David Theile and global top two most cited academic (by h-factor), world-renowned clinician Dr Graham Colditz.
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