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Work begins on a Community Garden Project being run by the UQ Gatton Plant Science Society.Work begins on a 3.275 megawatt pilot plant on Campus which will be Queensland’s largest solar power installation.Renovations completed on the Plant Industries Building, including upgrades to the Chemistry and Plant Biology laboratories.Opening of the Geothermal Cooling Tower, an innovative new technology designed to reduce water consumption and the cost of generating electricity.The 3.275 megawatt Gatton Solar Research Facility comprising more than 37,000 thin-film photovoltaic panels, mounted on the campus’s 10ha former airstrip is launched by Industry and Science Minister Ian Macfarlane.Darbalara Beef Teaching Facility is officially opened.School of Veterinary Science celebrates its 80th anniversary.It set the scene for the next stage of its history, as the Gatton College campus of the University of Queensland. QAC's development through the 1980s suited a decade of increasing accountability and sweeping changes for education. Other boosts included a new Research Fund, appointment of a co-ordinator of research and the launch of several specialist centres. For example the College won a Bicentennial award for a 1987-89 student project which created the acclaimed Canopy Walk at O'Reilly's in Queensland's Lamington National Park. Reciprocal relationships with business and industry strengthened teaching and research. Highlights included two Australian firsts - college training for National Parks and Wildlife staff, and a business degree course in hospitality management. New courses, a switch from diplomas to degrees, the first postgraduate programs, more emphasis on research, increasing student numbers from Australia and overseas, organisational restructures, and extensive campus improvements marked the passage of this new role.īy 1986 QAC's agricultural focus had expanded to include studies such as tourism, soil and water conservation, wildlife and environmental management, property valuation and food technology. In 1971 QAC became one of Queensland's first colleges of advanced education (CAE) with its own governing council. High school teaching was phased out in 1962 and the name changed back to Queensland Agricultural College, heralding the next phase - self-government. Most significantly the College became a purely tertiary institution. Over the next eight years, a vigorous rebuilding program yielded four new student residences, five new teaching and research facilities, an airstrip and a cadet-training centre. Ex-Army huts had to suffice until a fire destroyed oneof them during the August 1963 vacation. More land was acquired in 1945, 1948, 1949, 19 but campus development was stalled despite appeals to the Education Department to replace wooden pre-war and Army buildings. By 1969, when the first women enrolled, student numbers had trebled while international enrolments and course offerings had expanded dramatically. The end of the War in 1945 heralded renewed interest in agricultural education. This development continued throughout the War, with the focus on practical farm work and projects of immediate wartime value such as intensive crop and livestock production, and growing opium poppies to make drugs. The sudden requisition caused major disruption and many new buildings were constructed in 1943 to accommodate teaching and research activities.

TABULO KINGS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PLUS

In fewer than three years these hospitals hosted more than 19,000 wounded servicemen plus 3000 Army doctors, nurses and other service personnel.

In 1942 much of the campus was requisitioned (on one day's notice) for the 153rd Station Hospital and later the 105th General Hospital of the U.S. The institution was, however, already developing interests in scientific education and research. In 1927 the University of Queensland launched its Agriculture Faculty, ending Gatton's State monopoly on tertiary agricultural education.

Two events close to home posed major changes. Its programs were now part of the State's educational system and from 1923 to 1970 the institution maintained momentum, weathering events such as the Great Depression and agricultural problems such as the prickly pear infestation and rabbit plague.

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