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.

Leafy-green better than lean

Leafy-green better than lean

Leafy-green better than lean

An office enriched with plants makes staff happier and boosts productivity by 15 per cent, a University of Queensland researcher has found.

1 September 2014

UQ hosts leading Congolese environmental researcher

UQ hosts leading Congolese environmental researcher

A leading environmental researcher from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will offer an insight into mineral wealth in Congo during a visit to The University of Queensland next week.

28 August 2014

Chinchilla dials in to telehealth project

Chinchilla dials in to telehealth project

Western Downs communities now have better access to specialist medical care, after QGC Pty Limited invested $1.3 million to expand telehealth services in the region.

28 August 2014

Researchers seek big gains from targeting the tiny

Working at the nanoscale, using materials with dimensions thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, allows researchers to accurately target treatments with minimal harm to surrounding cells

Researchers seek big gains from targeting the tiny

The quest to better understand human biology at a minuscule level has led to the creation of a $26 million international research centre in Melbourne.

28 August 2014

Art to challenge what it means to be Australian

The Honey and the Bunny by Karla Dickens.

Art to challenge what it means to be Australian

The University of Queensland’s Great Court will be filled with challenging artworks for the Courting Blakness art installation next month.

28 August 2014

UQ workshop on Saturday offers free help to navigate divorce

Professor Matt Sanders

UQ workshop on Saturday offers free help to navigate divorce

Divorce doesn’t have to spell disaster for children or their parents, says the author of a University of Queensland program designed to help families after separation.

28 August 2014

Huge insect diversity revealed by genetic technologies

Side on view of a gall on a eucalypt branch, belonging to one of the new species. Photo: Lyn Cook.

Huge insect diversity revealed by genetic technologies

The diversity of plants, mammals and birds in Australia is well-known, but scientists have very little idea of how many hundreds of thousands of species of Australian insects exist.

27 August 2014

South east Australia most prone to tsunami threats along eastern coast

Queensland would escape a devastating tsunami but our southern neighbours could be at risk. Image source: iStock

South east Australia most prone to tsunami threats along eastern coast

Queensland is relatively safe from the threat of a devastating tsunami but our southern neighbours on the east coast may not be so lucky, a recent study has found.

27 August 2014

Beating, starvation and murder – childhood was tough in ancient times

‘Children in the Ancient World’ is the topic of The University of Queensland’s Ancient History Day on Saturday. Image source: iStock

Beating, starvation and murder – childhood was tough in ancient times

If you think that smacking a child is bad, then you would have found it confronting to live in ancient times.

27 August 2014

Placental tissue gives gift of life a second time around

Study leader Associate Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani.

Placental tissue gives gift of life a second time around

Stem cells from placenta usually discarded after childbirth can now be used to develop treatments for conditions such as diabetes, with each placenta containing enough stem cells to potentially treat 100 patients.

27 August 2014

QBI to establish world’s largest international research centre for dementia

The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) joined with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biophysics (IBP) to create a research centre.

QBI to establish world’s largest international research centre for dementia

The world’s leading researchers will work together to tackle dementia after The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) joined with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biophysics (IBP) to create a research centre.

26 August 2014