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.

Researchers from The University of Queensland’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences will be practising their research in community health internationally after receiving Queensland International Fellowships.

28 June 2012
The UQ Rugby women's team.

A strengthening UQ women's rugby scene at UQ has led to one of the season's most convincing wins yet – a 53-5 win over their arch rivals West's Bulldogs.

28 June 2012
UQ Arts/Law student Juliette Maeji will work for nine weeks in the Austrade office in Paris.

Swapping her family home in Wishart for a Parisian apartment is a dream come true for Juliette Maeji.

28 June 2012

UQ staff and alumni feature prominently in the 2012 list of Australia's 100 most influential engineers.

28 June 2012
Dr Chamindie Punyadeera has been awarded a Queensland International Fellowship.

Smoking has cost the lives of people close to Chamindie Punyadeera, pushing her to continue her research to develop saliva-based early diagnostics for cancer.

27 June 2012
Dr Li Li has received a Queensland International Fellowship.

Dr Li Li is building a bridge between researchers in Australia and China as she works to reduce car emissions using high-performance nano-engineering.

27 June 2012

The University of Queensland congratulates 11 researchers named as 2011-2012 Queensland International Fellows.

27 June 2012

More than 200 economic theorists across the world will attend next week’s major economic conference in Australia.

27 June 2012
The Gold Coast Desalination Plant … research project there could make 'fundamental advances' in knowledge of coastal processes

A University of Queensland (UQ) research project to help improve the cost efficiency of the Gold Coast Desalination Plant was launched earlier this month and is now in full swing.

27 June 2012
Natural melanins such as squid ink are being considered as new materials for bioelectronics. Credit: Dr Paul Schwenn

Melanin – the pigment that colours skin, eyes and hair – could soon be the face of a new generation of biologically friendly electronic devices used in applications such as medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments.

27 June 2012

Leading international economics scholars are in Brisbane for the first workshop to be held in Australia by the Association for Public Economic Theory (APET).

26 June 2012