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.

UQ economic honours graduates continue to prove their on top of the academic game by achieving entrance to prestigious US universities for their PhD studies.

14 June 2012
Gideon Chitombo.

Two UQ researchers will receive national recognition for mining and medical feats at a technological science award night in Sydney tonight.

14 June 2012

The University of Queensland’s main research commercialisation company, UniQuest, has launched the 2012 Trailblazer entrepreneurial ideas and innovations competition, with a share of $100,000 worth of cash prizes on offer.

13 June 2012

The world population increased by 30 per cent over the last quarter century to grow to more than seven billion in 2011

13 June 2012
A piece by artist Robyn Stacey, entitled Ice, is one of the features of the UQ Art Museum's Return to Sender exhibition.

An exhibition featuring 11 artists who left Queensland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely in reaction to the political and cultural milieu of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era, opens at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 16 June 2012.

13 June 2012
Students from a UQ working group researching human trafficking and migrant smuggling (from left) Jess Swanson, Bethany Holt, Sian Littledale and Jake Williams.

More student voices from The University of Queensland are joining the international debate on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling, with the expansion of a student working group.

12 June 2012

UQ paleontologists have contributed to a new book that shows how to incorporate fossil data into ecological and conservation studies.

12 June 2012

Three figures associated with The University of Queensland have received the highest award in today’s Queen’s Birthday honours list.

11 June 2012

An influential Chinese delegation visited The University of Queensland (UQ) today to be briefed on research into needle-free vaccine delivery technology and new energy storage and conversion opportunities.

8 June 2012

University of Queensland’s Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Judy Bauer, has been awarded the prestigious Fellow of Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) status.

8 June 2012

A UQ study finds that Caribbean seaweeds are Olympic athletes compared to their equivalents in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. But this triumph is bad news for Caribbean coral reefs.

8 June 2012