Why we cheer louder for homegrown heroes

Recognising outstanding performance with sports awards is a question of identity, not just ability, UQ researchers have found.

3 July 2025
A gold trophy being help un in a stadium.

Rewriting the rulebook on schizophrenia meds: why it’s time to rethink clozapine protocols

The most effective antipsychotic drug for people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia is clozapine. Yet, across the world, it remains underused – largely due to fears about serious side effects and burdensome monitoring requirements.

3 July 2025
Stethoscope and stylised human head and brain on pink background.

Discovering ways to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is just another day at the office for UQ graduate David Boughey.

21 September 2011

Oliver Squires is keen to make a difference, both in the field of health research and alleviation of world problems such as poverty and climate change.

21 September 2011

A new water refill station has been installed at the UQ St Lucia campus to raise student and staff awareness of the option to say no to bottled water, and save money.

21 September 2011

Leading ecologist and conservation biologist Dr Shelly Lachish will join The University of Queensland and The Brisbane Institute in presenting this year’s Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture on October 4.

21 September 2011

Third year University of Queensland medical student Scott Temple has set himself an immense challenge.

20 September 2011

A study in worms that are less than a millimetre long has yielded clues that may be important for understanding how nerves grow.

20 September 2011

Nominations for The Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Internationalisation 2011 are now being accepted.

20 September 2011
UQ Discovery Tour winner Joshua Deerain at University College Dublin in Ireland

Where would you travel to with $10,000? For The University of Queensland’s Discovery Tour winner, Joshua Deerain, it’s the place that influenced Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection – the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).

16 September 2011

First year UQ agricultural science student, Danille Fox, has been awarded the 2011 UQ Gatton Past Students Association Scholarship.

15 September 2011

Researchers are a step closer to unravelling the genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia following the largest genome-wide association study of the disorder ever undertaken.

15 September 2011

A system that offers water utilities a cheaper way to get rid of sewer odours is in the running to win $100,000 in UQ Business School's 2011 Enterprize competition.

15 September 2011