Research Showcase - 2006

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Meal deal

Different fish species have been found to form the kind of mutually beneficial relationships more commonly associated with humans. Dr Lexa Grutter, from UQ’s School of Integrative Biology, and Dr Redouan Bshary, from the Swiss Uni...

Visible improvement

A UQ project is removing barriers that can make adolescents with intellectual disabilities feel invisible to the health care system. Director of UQ`s Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCID...

Breast or bottle

The question of whether to breast or bottle-feed a baby has inspired a unique UQ study. Virginia Thorley carried out the first Australia-wide study into the history of infant feeding in the 20th Century through UQ’s School of H...

Games gold

Savvy marketers eager to gain brand recognition for clients have seized on the computer gaming boom. UQ Business School Honours graduate Lars-Peter Schneider and Professor Bettina Cornwell have found that marketers are following consume...

Aiming high

UQ’s HyShot™ team is testing new scramjet engine configurations designed to reach Mach 12, or 12 times the speed of sound. Testing is being conducted in the University’s key T4 ground test facility in ...

Speedy solution

Biomedical and computational scientists at UQ have combined to create a powerful new tool that will greatly increase the amount of data bio-scientists can expect to process in a week. Sophisticated software that slashes...

Variable climate

Senior staff in Government Owned Corporations (GOCs) are more aware of climate change as being important to corporate sustainability than their colleagues in private organisations. UQ Business School PhD students Sally ...

Life changing

The growth and development of Australia’s population and economy present challenges for planners and policy makers. An innovative research network is hoping to improve understanding of the processes of change that...

Better behaved

A new intervention program has already been shown to help reduce delinquent behaviour in young people.  Based on more than three years of extensive research, the six-week Mindfields intervention program is designed...

Mineral wealth

Australia’s mining industry will undergo a major transformation through the establishment of a $16 million minerals research facility. A new Minerals Characterisation Research Facility (MCRF) will be located at...

Toxins dumped

Reducing the toxic pollution of landfill sites from lead in the circuits of dumped electronic equipment is the aim of a research agreement between UQ and a major Japanese metals company. UQ and Nihon Superior Company Li...

Time not wasted

Ipswich residents are not wasting their chance to talk about garbage. Their views are vital to the success of a joint community project between UQ and the Ipswich City Council to find solutions to waste management probl...

Working model

Establishing a working model for the sustainable allocation of water and land in the vast Murray–Darling Basin is significantly closer as the result of UQ research. UQ’s Risk and Sustainable Management Group...

Shrimps sink

Pollution might be the cause of a perplexing population decline in the Southern Ocean’s smallest but most important species. The shrinking population of the tiny shrimp-like Antarctic krill is presenting scientist...

Boilerhouse boils

After a $2.1 million overhaul, the Boilerhouse at UQ’s Ipswich campus is running research projects driving positive change in the city. Built in 1913, the Boilerhouse, with a 24-metre-high chimney, is one of Ipswi...

Gender bender

Why do males produce sperm and females produce eggs? An Australian research team led by Dr Josephine Bowles and Professor Peter Koopman from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience has solved one of biology’s most fundamenta...

Faith tested

Religious beliefs can help or hinder women who are victims of domestic abuse. Dr Lynne Baker of UQ’s School of Education has researched the coping strategies of Christian women who had to deal not only with domest...

Marsupial invader

A discovery by UQ researchers might explain why the koala is susceptible to some infections and cancers. Rachael Tarlinton, a PhD student from the School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, and her sup...

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