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Students attending JCU's 2024 Winter School sit with their mentor
Fri, 28 Jun 2024

More than 120 students from as far as the Northern Territory and New South Wales recently traded their school holidays for James Cook University’s Indigenous Winter School Program.

Thu, 27 Jun 2024
By 2080, scientists believe coral bleaching is likely to start in spring, rather than summer, with a high risk of year-round bleaching for some reefs almost inevitab...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024
An innovative water sampling method projected to slash biosecurity costs and protect Australia’s $220 million prawn farm industry from pathogens will be put to...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024
A traditional Melanesian story-telling methodology, ‘tok stori’ will be the foundation of a new James Cook University research project looking at the liv...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024
Prior to the devastation of Cyclones Tracy and Althea in the 1970s, the idea of engineering buildings to withstand what society coined ‘acts of God’ was ...

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Firm celebrates new lawyers
Mareeba firm Apels Solicitors and Notary is celebrating the admission of two members of...
12 Jun 2024
Optimising telehealth use for rural and remote communities
A new research initiative led by Professor Sarah Larkins from James Cook University aims...
12 Jun 2024
Climate change driving deadly cold waves
Their findings proved, tragically, that there is a newly-discovered way in which climate change...
12 Jun 2024
Health care transformation planned
A JAMES Cook University researcher plans to transform health care workforce policy and planning...
12 Jun 2024
Education researcher calls for primary schools to have 'courage' to rethink homework
When Estelle Trueman was growing up, homework was par for the course. But now...
12 Jun 2024

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