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.

Nominations for The University of Queensland’s 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumnus Award are now open.

21 July 2011

In an Australian first, The University of Queensland (UQ) has entered into a landmark agreement with technology specialist Siemens, to install a powerful MRI system that is more than twice as strong as any other MRI system currently available in the...

21 July 2011

A mother and son had the rare honour of graduating at the same ceremony at The University of Queensland recently.

21 July 2011
UQ graduate and business sustainability analyst Kristine Dewar

The announcement of the Federal Government's Carbon tax led to an immediate surge of interest in how to reduce carbon emissions, according to business sustainability analyst Kristine Dewar.

21 July 2011

Research undertaken by legal academics from The University of Queensland suggests that Australia is right to act with caution in dealing with Sharia law.

20 July 2011

UQ’s Professor John Quiggin has been named the 2011 Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.

20 July 2011
A UQ research project is looking at the "empty nest" syndrome and its effects on parents

Is your child over 18 and still living at home? If so, then UQ invites you to complete a short online survey to assist with new research.

20 July 2011
Bruce Redman (centre) films Family First candidate John Lewis during the 2004 Federal Election campaign

Life is often stranger than fiction, just ask Dr Bruce Redman.

20 July 2011

UniQuest and The University of Queensland (UQ) are delivering tailored leadership courses to more than 150 delegates from Africa, the Pacific and Papua New Guinea

20 July 2011
Groper death mystery: UQ researchers are conducting autopsies on a gropers that are found washed up along Queensland's coastline.

Researchers are in a race against time to save Queensland’s groper fish, which are washing up dead along beaches of Northern Queensland in increasing numbers.

20 July 2011
Jaime Manalo IV speaking to locals as part of his work with the Philippine Rice Research Institute. Photo provided by PhilRice/Al Benavente.

Australian Leadership Awards scholar from the Philippines, Jaime Manalo IV, had never been overseas when he applied to study a Master of Communication (Communication for Social Change) at The University of Queensland (UQ).

20 July 2011