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.

Mock news feeds and on-camera television news reading and reporting will be some of the attractions when the School of Journalism and Communication showcases its new state-of-the-art facilities on UQ St Lucia’s Open Day.

30 June 2009

Queensland’s top 150 Icons have been released and The University of Queensland’s structures, people and research milestones have made the list.

30 June 2009

The University of Queensland has produced the first Australian batch of a new candidate vaccine against the H1N1 “swine flu” virus.

29 June 2009

It will be the end of an era at The University of Queensland this week, with the departure of dynamic Faculty of Health Sciences Executive Dean, Professor Peter Brooks.

28 June 2009

Legal experts from UQ will head to Tanzania in August to investigate the country’s capacity to prosecute and sentence cases of environmental crime and corruption.

26 June 2009
The University of Queensland's Gatton Campus

A scholarship in memory of an agricultural science graduate has been awarded for the first time at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus.

25 June 2009

UQ staff and graduates feature prominently in the 2009 list of Australia’s 100 most influential engineers.

25 June 2009

A UQ communication expert has been appointed Deputy Chair of the new Australian National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

24 June 2009
Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)

UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.

24 June 2009

The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus continues to significantly decrease its water consumption levels.

23 June 2009

A world-leading economist is visiting UQ as a guest researcher of the School of Economics and will present a half-day workshop in late June.

23 June 2009