62-452: The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at the University of Queensland (UQ) is a research institute focused on understanding and implementing the principles of sustainable development through engagement with industry contacts from geology to mining , processing and disposal. In 2022, the institute was awarded more than $ 1.2 million in grants to develop research into sustainable resources for
124-536: A Jesuit house. After the end of the war, Harsanyi returned to the University of Budapest for graduate studies in philosophy and sociology, earning his PhD in both subjects in 1947. Then a devout Catholic , he simultaneously studied theology, also joining lay ranks of the Dominican Order . He later abandoned Catholicism, becoming an atheist for the rest of his life. Harsanyi spent the academic year 1947–1948 on
186-567: A doodle . Harsanyi began researching utilitarian ethics in the mid-fifties at the University of Queensland in Brisbane . This led to two publications explaining why, before understanding moral problems, the difference between people's personal and moral preferences must be distinguished. As he says at the beginning of his essay included in the book edited by A. Sen and B. Williams (see below), he tries to reconcile three traditions of Western moral thinking, those of Adam Smith , Immanuel Kant and
248-493: A board member of the university's Faculty of Engineering. The Queensland University Regiment Logistics Company is housed in the Witton Barracks, Indooroopilly . The University of Queensland is organised into a number of divisions for academic, administrative and logistical purposes. The senate is the governing body of The University of Queensland and consists of 22 members from the university and community. The senate
310-526: A collection of over 7,000 items of medical memorabilia, medical and surgical instruments. The focus is on the study of medical history in Queensland, but the collection includes items with broader significance to Australia and internationally. In 2014, UQ sold the Ipswich Campus to the University of Southern Queensland , believing that this regional teaching campus would be better used by USQ. The campus
372-617: A colony with a literacy rate of 57% in 1861, primary education was the first concern well ahead of secondary and technical education. The government, despite the findings of the Royal Commissions, was unwilling to commit funds to the establishment of a university. In 1893, the Queensland University Extension Movement was begun by a group of private individuals who organised public lecture courses in adult education, hoping to excite wider community support for
434-716: A connected arcade so students could reach any section under cover. The Great Court was added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 2002. The University of Queensland Art Museum is located in the James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre on the St Lucia campus. The Art Museum was established in the Forgan Smith Tower in 1976 to house the artworks collected by The University of Queensland since the 1940s, relocating to its present site in 2004. Today, with more than 4,400 artworks,
496-705: A hundred Olympians winning numerous gold medals, and 117 Rhodes Scholars among its alumni and former staff. UQ's alumni also include University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood , the first female Governor-General of Australia Dame Quentin Bryce , former President of King's College London Ed Byrne , member of United Kingdom's Prime Minister Council for Science and Technology Max Lu , Oscar and Emmy awards winner Geoffrey Rush , triple Grammy Award winner Tim Munro , former CEO and chairman of Dow Chemical Andrew N. Liveris , and current director of multiple organisations including IBM . According to
558-662: A number of sources. Its other campuses include Gatton , Herston and Dutton Park (formerly the Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence). In 1927, the land on which the St Lucia campus is built was resumed by the Brisbane City Council using money donated by James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne to replace the less spacious city campus. The city campus is now home to the Gardens Point campus of
620-506: A semester-based modular system for conducting academic courses. The Australian higher education model features a combination of the British system, such as small group teaching ( tutorials ) and the American system ( course credits ). Over a decade, UQ received more than $ 200 million in additional revenue from billionaire Chuck Feeney ’s Atlantic Philanthropies , which matched funding with
682-657: A strong research focus in science, medicine and technology. The university's research advancement includes pioneering the development of the cervical cancer vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix , by UQ Professor Ian Frazer . In 2009, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation reported that UQ had taken the lead in numerous areas of cancer research. In the Commonwealth Government's Excellence in Research for Australia 2012 National Report, UQ's research
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#1733093531051744-535: A university in Queensland. In 1894, 245 students were enrolled in the extension classes and the lectures were described as practical and useful. In 1906 the University Extension Movement staged the University Congress , a forum for interested delegates to promote the idea of a university. Opinion was mobilised, a fund was started and a draft Bill for a Queensland University was prepared. Stress
806-838: A year before he was born. He attended high school at the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest. In high school, he became one of the best problem solvers of the KöMaL , the Mathematical and Physical Monthly for Secondary Schools. Founded in 1893, this periodical is generally credited with a large share of Hungarian students' success in mathematics. He also won the first prize in the Eötvös mathematics competition for high school students. Although he wanted to study mathematics and philosophy, his father sent him to France in 1939 to enroll in chemical engineering at
868-649: Is an inner-city corporate education, meeting and dining venue and facility which is on Level 19 of Central Plaza One in the Brisbane central business district. Indooroopilly is the site of the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre and the Queensland University Regiment Logistics Company. The Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) of The University of Queensland Sustainable Minerals Institute
930-602: Is at a former silver and lead mine at Finney's Hill in Indooroopilly . Acquired in 1951 by the School of Mining Engineering under the leadership of Frank T. M. White , Foundation Professor (appointed 1950), this mine (formerly Finney's Hill United Silver Mines Limited) then became known as the Queensland University Experimental Mine. It promptly became an integral part of the teaching and research capacity of
992-450: Is elected annually as its president. The president is assisted by a half-time deputy president. The university has six faculties to support both research and teaching activities. Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Science UQ has
1054-550: Is led by the chancellor and deputy chancellor, elected by the senate. The University of Queensland Act 1998 grants the senate wide powers to appoint staff, manage and control university affairs and property and manage and control finances to promote the university's interests. The academic board is the university's senior academic advisory body. It formulates policy on academic matters including new programs, teaching, learning and assessment, research, promotions, student academic matters, prizes and scholarships. An academic board member
1116-559: Is on the social, cultural, economic, and political challenges accompanying mineral resource extraction and on questions of justice, fairness, and equity. CSRM staff engage with industry, communities, and Indigenous and land-connected peoples alike. The centre has a worldwide research interests, with recent publications on mining issues in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cook Islands, Czech Republic, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, and Suriname. CSRM
1178-421: Is rated above world standard in more broad fields than at any other Australian university (in 22 broad fields), and more UQ researchers are working in research fields that ERA has assessed as above world standard than at any other Australian university. UQ research in biomedical and clinical health sciences, technology, engineering, biological sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, and physical sciences
1240-812: Is situated in Herston and operates within Queensland Health system of the Royal Brisbane Hospital , Royal Children's Hospital , Royal Women's Hospital and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research . It is home to the Faculty of Medicine, the School of Population Health, the Herston Health Sciences Library, the Centre for Clinical Research and clinical research and learning activities of
1302-569: Is the core campus for research, learning and teaching activities and facilities in agriculture, animals, veterinary science and the environment. In 2008 the Centre for Advanced Animal Science (CAAS) was opened at the Gatton campus – a collaborative venture between UQ and the Queensland Government . UQ Mayne Medical School and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research is the core campus for clinical health teaching and research. The campus
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#17330935310511364-675: The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology , and the UQ Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation. Recent notable research of the university include pioneering the invention of the HPV vaccine that prevents cervical cancer , developing a COVID-19 vaccine that was in human trials, and the development of high-performance superconducting MRI magnets for portable scanning of human limbs . UQ counts two Nobel laureates ( Peter C. Doherty and John Harsanyi ), over
1426-1146: The Beattie government ’s Smart State program. UQ is a partner of McDonnell International Scholars Academy - an international network of research universities and scholars comprising 28 university partners, including Boğaziçi University , Fudan University , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Indian Institute of Science , Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , Keio University , Korea University , Makerere University , Middle East Technical University , National Taiwan University , National University of Singapore , National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University , Peking University , Reichman University , Seoul National University , State University of Campinas , Tata Institute of Social Sciences , Technion – Israel Institute of Technology , Tecnológico de Monterrey , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Tsinghua University , University of Chile , University of Ghana , University of Hong Kong , University of Indonesia , University of Tokyo , Utrecht University and Yonsei University . Queensland has
1488-502: The Queensland University of Technology . Construction of the new university at St Lucia began in 1937. At its centre is the heritage-listed Great Court – a 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) open area surrounded by Helidon sandstone buildings with grotesques of great academics and historic scenes, floral and faunal motifs and crests of universities and colleges from around the world. This central semi-circular quadrangle features
1550-470: The University of Lyon . However, because of the start of World War II , Harsanyi returned to Hungary to study pharmacology at the University of Budapest (today: Eötvös Loránd University ), earning a diploma in 1944. As a pharmacology student, Harsanyi escaped conscription into the Royal Hungarian Army which, as a person of Jewish descent , would have meant forced labor. However, in 1944 (after
1612-516: The University of Queensland in Brisbane . While in Brisbane, Harsanyi's wife became a fashion designer for a small factory. In 1956, Harsanyi received a Rockefeller scholarship that enabled him and Anne to spend the next two years in the United States, at Stanford University and, for a semester, at the Cowles Foundation . At Stanford Harsanyi wrote a dissertation in game theory under
1674-567: The University of Sydney for a master's degree. Harsanyi worked in a factory during the day and studied economics in the evening at the University of Sydney, finishing with a M.A. in 1953. While studying in Sydney, he started publishing research papers in economic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economic Studies . The degree allowed him to take a teaching position in 1954 at
1736-672: The premier of the day and it was completed in 1939. During World War II, the Forgan Smith Building was used as a military base and it served first as advanced headquarters for the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific. The first Doctor of Science was awarded in 1942. The first PhD was awarded in 1952. In 1990, Australia reorganised its higher education system by abolishing the binary system of universities and colleges of advanced education. Under this transition,
1798-422: The 1994 Nobel Prize in economics was a series of articles published in 1967 and 1968 which established what has become the standard framework for analyzing "games of incomplete information", situations in which the various strategic decisionmakers have different information about the parameters of the game. He resolved the problem of how players could make decisions while not knowing what each other knows by modelling
1860-467: The 50th anniversary of Queensland's separation from the colony of New South Wales . The Act allowed for the university to be governed by a senate of 20 men and Sir William MacGregor , the incoming Governor, was appointed the first chancellor with RH Roe as the vice-chancellor. Old Government House ... [then Government House] in George Street was set aside for the university following the departure of
1922-520: The Challinor Centre served as an institution for people with intellectual disabilities . In late 1997 the Challinor Centre began its first stage of transformation as the new UQ Ipswich campus. UQ has other research and education facilities not directly attached to its four campuses. These locations are primarily for research, which cannot be undertaken in the campus locales but also represent buildings which established pre-eminence in education before
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1984-665: The Harsanyi Doctrine. From 1966 to 1968, Harsanyi was part of a team of game theorists tasked with advising the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in collaboration with Mathematica, a consulting group from Princeton University led by Harold Kuhn and Oskar Morgenstern . John Harsanyi died on August 9, 2000, from a heart attack in Berkeley, California, after developing Alzheimer's disease . On 29 May 2010, Google celebrated John Harsányi's Birthday with
2046-617: The Michie Building on level 1) contains a significant collection of ethnographic material. It is also open to the public. The UQ Gatton Campus covers 1068 ha at Lawes , near the town of Gatton, Queensland , about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Brisbane on the Warrego Highway. The campus was opened in 1897 next to the site of the Queensland Agricultural College which was then amalgamated with UQ in 1990. UQ Gatton
2108-475: The Queensland Government's Heritage Register's History section: Proposals for a university in Queensland began in the 1870s. A Royal Commission in 1874, chaired by Sir Charles Lilley , recommended the immediate establishment of a university. Those against a university argued that technical rather than academic education was more important in an economy dominated by primary industry. Those in favour of
2170-626: The School of Nursing and Midwifery. The Herston campus also houses other key facilities such as the Oral Health Centre and the purpose-built Herston Imaging Research Facility. The medical school building was added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 1999. The Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History is in the Mayne Medical School at the Herston campus. Operated by volunteers and supported by The University of Queensland Alumni, it has
2232-512: The School, which in 1952 expanded to become the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. JKMRC, incorporating the Experimental Mine, was officially established as a University Centre in 1970, with a goal to develop practical technical solutions for large-scale mining and minerals industry challenges. It is named after Julius Kruttschnitt , the chairman of Mount Isa Mines and
2294-580: The UQ- Ochsner Clinical School in Louisiana , United States. The university offers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral, and higher doctorate degrees through a college, a graduate school, and six faculties. UQ incorporates over one hundred research institutes and centres offering research programs, such as the Institute for Molecular Bioscience , Boeing Research and Technology Australia Centre,
2356-417: The University of Queensland as its permanent home. In the same year, the pitch drop experiment was started by Thomas Parnell . The experiment has been described as the world's oldest and continues to this day. Lack of finance delayed development of the St Lucia campus. Hence, the construction of the university's first building in St Lucia only began in 1938. It was later named the Forgan Smith Building, after
2418-525: The University's Art Collection is Queensland's second largest public art collection. The university also houses the R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum in the Michie building (bldg 9, level 2) which contains Queensland's only publicly accessible collection of antiquities from ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt and the Near East. The museum supports research and teaching at the university. The UQ Anthropology Museum (also in
2480-847: The authorities. After it became apparent that the communist party would confiscate the pharmacy in 1950, he fled with Anne and her parents by illegally crossing the border into Austria and then going to Australia where Klauber's parents had some friends. The two did not marry until they arrived in Australia because Klauber's immigration papers would need to be changed to reflect her married name. The two arrived with her parents on December 30, 1950, and they looked to marry immediately. Harsanyi and Klauber were married on January 2, 1951. Neither spoke much English and understood little of what they were told to say to each other. Harsanyi later explained to his new wife that she had promised to cook better food than she usually did. Harsanyi's Hungarian degrees were not recognized in Australia, but they earned him credit at
2542-566: The creation of the current campuses. Queen Street, Brisbane is the location of the Customs House and the UQ Business School Downtown Venue. Customs House is one of Brisbane's heritage icons and is located on the river along Queen Street in the Brisbane central business district . It is leased to and operated by the University of Queensland as a cultural, educational and heritage facility. The UQ Business School Downtown
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2604-509: The faculty of the Institute of Sociology of the University of Budapest, where he met Anne Klauber, his future wife. He was forced to resign the faculty because of openly expressing his anti- Marxist opinions, while Anne faced increasing peer pressure to leave him for the same reason. Harsanyi remained in Hungary for the following two years attempting to sell his family's pharmacy without losing it to
2666-665: The fall of the Horthy regime and the seizure of power by the Arrow Cross Party ) his military deferment was cancelled and he was compelled to join a forced labor unit on the Eastern Front . After seven months of forced labor, when the German authorities decided to deport his unit to a concentration camp in Austria, John Harsanyi managed to escape and found sanctuary for the rest of the war in
2728-477: The first students enrolled. The university's first classes in the Government House were held in 1911 with 83 commencing students and Sir William MacGregor is the first chancellor (with RH Roe as vice-chancellor). The University of Queensland began to award degrees to its first group of graduating students in 1914. The development of the university was delayed by World War I , but after the first world war
2790-544: The governor to the Bardon residence, Fernberg ..., sparking the first debates about the best location for the university. In 1910 the first teaching faculties were created. These included Engineering, Classics, Mathematics[,] and Chemistry. In December of the same year, the Senate appointed the first four professors; BD Steele in chemistry, JL Michie in classics, H. Priestley in mathematics and A Gibson in engineering. In 1911
2852-490: The initial four UQx courses cover hypersonics, tropical coastal ecosystems, biomedical imaging and the science of everyday thinking. The University of Queensland maintains a number of campuses and facilities throughout Queensland. UQ has its main campus in the suburb of St Lucia in Brisbane, bordered by a meander in the Brisbane River to the north, east, and south. UQ's main campus has been recognised for its beauty by
2914-616: The international research-intensive Association of Pacific Rim Universities . The main St Lucia campus occupies much of the riverside inner suburb of St Lucia , southwest of the Brisbane central business district . Other UQ campuses and facilities are located throughout Queensland, the largest of which are the Gatton campus and the Mayne Medical School . UQ's overseas establishments include UQ North America office in Washington D.C., and
2976-470: The mining industry. The founder, Alban Lynch , died in 2021. SMI has six Centres: The Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) is a research centre committed to improving the social performance of the global resource industry through independent research, training and professional development, participation in multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, and student research for higher degrees. CSRM's focus
3038-817: The opening of the Ipswich branch of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum . Operations continued until 1910 when it became the Ipswich Hospital for the Insane. In 1938 it was renamed the Ipswich Mental Hospital and in 1964 it was renamed again as the Ipswich Special Hospital. It was finally named the Challinor Centre in 1968 in honour of Henry Challinor , the ship's surgeon on the Fortitude . From 1968 to 1997
3100-467: The situation with initial moves by Nature using known probabilities to choose the parameters, with some players observing Nature's move but other players just knowing the probabilities and the fact that some players have observed the actual realized values. This relies on assuming that all players know the structure of the game, which means they all have "common priors", knowing the probabilities Nature uses in selecting parameters values, an assumption known as
3162-427: The study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games . He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy (specifically utilitarian ethics ) as well as contributing to the study of equilibrium selection . For his work, he
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#17330935310513224-431: The supervision of Kenneth Arrow , earning a second PhD in economics in 1959, while Anne earned an MA in psychology. Harsanyi's student visa expired in 1958 and the two returned to Australia. After working for a short time as a researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra , Harsanyi became frustrated with the lack of interest in game theory in Australia. With the help of Kenneth Arrow and James Tobin , he
3286-489: The university enrolments for education and research took flight as demand for higher education increased in Australia. Thus, in the early 1920s the growing university had to look for a more spacious campus as its original site in George Street, Brisbane , had limited room for expansion. In 1927, James O'Neil Mayne and his sister, Mary , provided a grant of approximately £50,000 to the Brisbane City Council to acquire 274 acres (111 ha) of land in St Lucia and provided it to
3348-409: The university merged with Queensland Agricultural College, to establish the new UQ Gatton campus. In 1999, UQ Ipswich began operation as one of the completely web-enabled campuses in Australia. In 2010, The University of Queensland was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards . In May 2013, UQ joined edX , an international consortium of massive open online courses ( MOOCs ). From May 2014,
3410-406: The university, in the face of this opposition, distanced themselves from Oxford and Cambridge and proposed instead a model derived from the mid-western states of the U.S.A . A second Royal Commission in 1891 recommended the inclusion of five faculties in a new university; Arts, Law, Medicine, Science, and Applied Science. Education generally was given a low priority in Queensland's budgets, and in
3472-443: The world. University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane , the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland . Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone universities , an informal designation of the oldest university in each state. UQ is also a founding member of edX , Australia's leading Group of Eight and
3534-447: Was a co-recipient along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . He moved to the United States in 1956, and spent most of his life there. According to György Marx , he was one of The Martians . Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest , Hungary , the son of Alice Harsányi (née Gombos) and Károly Harsányi, a pharmacy owner. His parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism
3596-582: Was able to move to the United States, taking a position as professor of economics at the Wayne State University in Detroit between 1961 and 1963. In 1964, he moved to Berkeley , California; he remained at the University of California, Berkeley , until retiring in 1990. Shortly after arriving in Berkeley, he and Anne had a child, Tom. While teaching at Berkeley, Harsanyi did extensive research in game theory. Harold Kuhn , who had been John von Neumann 's student in Princeton and already had games theory publications encouraged him in this. The work for which he won
3658-451: Was established in 2001. In 2022, it had 40 staff and postgraduate students. Undergraduate programs are not offered. The Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation (CMLR) was established at OQ in 1993 and has built on more than twenty years involvement with the mining and minerals industries. CMLR is involved in a broad range of research and training projects with mining companies, industry bodies and government departments from across Australia and
3720-399: Was laid on the practical aspects of university education and its importance for the commerce of Queensland. The proceedings of the Congress were forwarded to Premier [of Queensland] Kidston . In October 1906, sixty acres in Victoria Park were gazetted for university purposes. The University of Queensland was established by an Act of State Parliament on 10 December 1909 to commemorate
3782-400: Was made up of nearly 20 buildings and more than 5001 students on nearly 25 hectares (62 acres). Courses offered included: arts, business, medicine and social sciences as well as Interaction design . It is located near central Ipswich, Queensland , just south of the CBD. Nearby landmarks include Limestone Park, Workshops Rail Museum and RAAF Base Amberley . The site dates back to 1878 with
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#17330935310513844-404: Was ranked above world standard (rating 5). John Harsanyi John Charles Harsanyi ( Hungarian : Harsányi János Károly ; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley . He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Harsanyi is best known for his contributions to
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