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.

Over 100 registrations were received in the first three days following the launch of an on-line student roster at the UQ Pro Bono Centre in July.

6 August 2009

Twelve judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka will take part in a program of educational and training seminars at the University of Queensland during August 11-17.

6 August 2009
Cross of the Order of Civil Merit

UQ Professor Alfredo Martínez Expósito has received recognition from the Spanish Crown for his work in promoting Spanish language and culture in Australia.

6 August 2009

Leading Australian scientists today released the following call for action to save the world’s coral reefs, at a scientific symposium in Brisbane:

5 August 2009
(from left) Johanna Elms, Hamish Grey, Lucas Castellani and Sandra de Freitas

If you want a job done properly give it to a busy person, preferably one dressed in a straight jacket or tutu

5 August 2009

Senior ABC News and AusAID representatives are amongst the members of an eminent jury panel which will meet in Brisbane on August 14 to judge UQ’s 2009 Communication and Social Change Award.

5 August 2009

Physicists from The University of Queensland have found the emerging field of quantum computing may be more stable than previously thought.

5 August 2009

The 7000-year-old coral communities of Moreton Bay are telling a curious tale, expanding when sea-levels rise or water quality improves, then declining when current circulation becomes more restricted.

4 August 2009

With a planned new $2.5 million GP Super Clinic, state-of-the-art facilities and degrees that allow you to fast-track your career in less than three years – UQ Ipswich is the place to study in 2010.

4 August 2009
(From left) Professor Michael Keniger; Dr Cindy Blackstock; Dr Jackie Huggins; Ms Donna Klein-Kawane; Dr Jane Thomson; Professor Stewart Gill.

One of Canada’s foremost experts on First Nations child and family welfare, Cindy Blackstock, will speak at UQ today (August 4).

4 August 2009

Regardless of your background, you can expand your horizons with UQ Business School, as Dean Robertson found when he began his MBA earlier this year.

4 August 2009