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.

Students think outside the box at Opti-MINDS

Laidley State High School students David Ketterer, left, Rhianna Carroll Kelly, Josh McPherson Merritt, Megan Einam and Tegan Osborne won the Division 3 of Science Engineering section of Opti-MINDS.

Students think outside the box at Opti-MINDS

Creativity, co-operation and innovation were on display as students competed in the Opti-MINDS Toowoomba Regional Final held at The University of Queensland Gatton Campus.

26 August 2014

Needle-free vaccine delivery selected as a technology pioneer

Professor Mark Kendall created the Nanopatch.

Needle-free vaccine delivery selected as a technology pioneer

The company responsible for a revolutionary method of delivering vaccines using needle-free technology has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.

26 August 2014

UQ to celebrate outstanding alumni

Ms Julieanne Alroe, Brisbane Airport Corporation CEO and Managing Director.

UQ to celebrate outstanding alumni

A globally influential Australian investor, one of the only women in the world to run a privatised airport, and leaders in engineering, diplomatic services and agriculture are among 17 outstanding graduates who will receive The University of...

26 August 2014

UQ researchers team up with police

ISSR Director Professor Mark Western, Senior Sergeant Mike Newman, Dr Sarah Bennett, UQ Vice Chancellor Peter Høj, Amelia Gray, Matthew Klotz, Yu Hin Cheng, Bogdan Berar and Professor Lorraine Mazerolle (clockwise from back row).

UQ researchers team up with police

Social science researchers will evaluate the success of a new mobile community policing van launched at St Lucia in Brisbane.

25 August 2014

UQ Art Museum explores five centuries of melancholia

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) Born 1471 Nuremberg, Germany. Lived and worked Nuremberg and Venice, Italy. Died 1528 Nuremberg. Melencolia I 1514 engraving on paper image 23.8 x 18.6 cm sheet 24.1 x 18.7 cm Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1962.

UQ Art Museum explores five centuries of melancholia

Five hundred years after the celebrated artist Albrecht Dürer produced his Melencolia I engraving, the historic work will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

25 August 2014

Genetic research facility opens its doors to the public

The genome sequencing machine, PacBio RSII, (pictured) at UQDI is the only one of its kind in Australia and identifies different variations in a genome

Genetic research facility opens its doors to the public

Genetic research will be in the spotlight next week when the most advanced genome sequencing facility in the Southern Hemisphere opens its doors to the public.

25 August 2014

German science competition winners visit UQ for research experience

German high-school students Kristof Heck, left, and Simon Huppertz visited UQ as a prize from a national youth science competition in their home country.

German science competition winners visit UQ for research experience

As successful finalists in Germany’s national youth science competition, two secondary-school students received a two-week study visit to The University of Queensland as part of their prize.

25 August 2014

Group bonding halts depression for all walks of life

Becoming a part of a social group can significantly reduce the effects of depression.

Group bonding halts depression for all walks of life

Becoming a part of a social group can significantly reduce the effects of depression, according to new research from The University of Queensland.

25 August 2014

Historian and neuroscientist are UQ’s new Australian Laureate Fellows

Professor Justin Marshall and Professor Peter Harrison

Historian and neuroscientist are UQ’s new Australian Laureate Fellows

Two University of Queensland researchers have been announced as Laureate Fellows under the Australian Research Council’s most prestigious research grants scheme.

22 August 2014

Physicists pursue the power of light

An artist’s impression of a ring of interacting absorbers tuned correctly to absorb light particles (photons) at much faster rate than any one absorber alone.(c) 2014 Simon Benjamin

Physicists pursue the power of light

An international team of theoretical quantum physicists is working on a way of absorbing light and storing it as energy.

22 August 2014

Researchers get a little wet behind the ears

UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Perry Bartlett is drenched with a bucket of iced water to raise awareness about motor neuron disease research.

Researchers get a little wet behind the ears

In good weather for ducks, 20 researchers at The University of Queensland took the plunge and braved the Ice Bucket Challenge in the name of raising funds to fight motor neuron disease (MND).

22 August 2014