Media Releases
Browse our Media Releases from 2013
- Helping inspire local students to further study
- JCU offers 3085 places
- Mobile units gather extra cyclone data throughout city
- Snakes meet their match
- Students getting down to business at JCU
- Turtles respond to climate change
- Vale Professor Ross Spark
- Wanted: young males for exercise test
- Child health care needs to be a family matter
- Crabs help reef fight deadly disease
- Helping parents and partners of uni students
- JCU backs higher education vision
- JCU scientist to lead global research society
- JCU scientist to lead global research society
- Lessons for our reefs in Caribbean study
- Nesting site protection ‘key to saving turtles’
- New kids on the block have help
- Nobel prize winner to speak at JCU
- Students get new hub to gather and learn
- Tadpoles are not just baby frogs
- The fun before knuckling down to study
- Tree study may yield climate secrets
- Tropical infection studied in new book
- Accounting for feral pigs
- Chasing Skippy in Scotland
- Cicada wings tear bacteria to pieces
- Creative talent set to graduate
- Eating the Earth
- Elder and historian honoured
- Examining social change over time
- Honorary doctorates for distinguished three
- JCU academic flying high
- JCU ‘the big improver’ says Nature
- Like Chariots of Fire, only sweaty
- Native animals trained to avoid toads
- New roads could help environment
- Project leads to Indigenous alcohol reduction
- Report focuses on making JCU ‘great’
- Scientists in fight for embattled protected areas
- Signing up for brighter futures
- Tracking straying fish goes high tech
- Tropical sustainability: a focus on food
- Tropical sustainability: a focus on food
- Tropical sustainability: eating green
- Unions battle colonial heritage
- Capturing ambience has major reward
- Chinese tourists enjoying life on the road
- Community ‘can rescue fish stocks’
- Dinosaur embryo bonebed reveals its secrets
- International collaboration on research writing
- Investigating life after 50
- JCU celebrates a boat as old as the university itself
- Logging could be forest saviour
- Pest fish to be tracked by its DNA
- Photographic exhibition defies reality
- Scientists call for large ocean wilderness parks
- Students accept the science challenge
- Uni cuts will hurt
- Celebrating 10 years in Singapore
- Climate change to hit common plants, animals
- Deep refuge can help our reefs
- Engaging with the science of our future
- Global travel medicine role
- In pursuit of succulence
- Indigenous scholars rewarded
- JCU students rewarded with bursaries
- Kids keep track of turtle trips
- Monster cyclone possible for Cairns
- Our new gecko – a global hit
- Reefs ‘ruled by earthquakes and volcanoes’
- Seagrass in decline
- Search for researchers made easy
- Social media to take nursing forward
- Spontaneously jumping dew drops clean nature’s surfaces
- The Cairns Institute’s new Director
- The changing needs of children
- Thinking of starting uni mid-year?
- Thinking of starting uni mid-year?
- Turtle grant welcomed
- Vice-Chancellor’s speech to the National Press Club
- Vital elements under the microscope
- Eavesdropping on the reef
- Helping PNG with mental health
- JCU names outstanding alumni
- JCU's doctors opt for the regions
- Kuku Yalanji tracking climate change
- Mabo lawyer delivers Mabo lecture
- Saving soccer goals is all in the eyes, and legs
- Women may take the reins in livestock management
- World’s tropical forests declining
- Yasi legacy for barramundi
- Baby fish ‘steer by the sun’
- Indigenous students help identify an “effective teacher”
- JCU engineers show off first-generation race car
- JCU vet hospital re-opens
- News and Media Colin Roderick lecture – Drusilla Modjeska
- Spotlight on Indigenous research
- Backpacker Dengue Risk
- Burketown residents to be surveyed on eco issues
- Campus K: a challenge to find out just who is the fastest on campus
- Charters Towers residents to be surveyed on eco issues
- Climate change: the animal response
- Come aboard for JCU’s Open Day
- Day of action on uni cuts wins support
- Debate rages over megafauna
- Dogs help boost kids’ literacy
- Hear what local politicians say about education
- JCU grads ‘five star’ in getting a job
- JCU ideal for PNG education reform
- Latest research on show at JCU’s eResearch expo
- Milking scorpions for science
- Minke whales tagged and tracked in world-first pilot study
- Mount Isa and Cloncurry residents to be surveyed on eco issues
- New JCU subject to inspire next gen maths teachers
- Palm oil boycott futile
- Polio pioneer’s work examined in lecture
- Social media stars present a night of hilarity and science
- Speed networking
- Spotlight on safer roads for both cyclists and motorists
- Swiss scholarship for toxoplasma researcher
- Teens test diplomatic skills
- Teens test diplomatic skills
- Tiny fish make ‘eyes’ at their killer
- To adapt or not to adapt? The question is how
- Townsville residents to be surveyed on eco issues
- Visit your future at JCU
- ‘Life’ boosts JCU rankings
- A step closer to developing new anti-influenza agents
- An introduction to dementia
- Bats — hear from the experts
- Bringing reefs back from brink
- Building on mud - when can we start?
- Call for entries – Northern Lights Film Festival
- Celebrating 10 years of JCU in the Torres Strait
- Climate change and coevolution: we’ve done the math
- Climate change nothing new in Oz
- Climate change ‘flattens’ treetops
- Eureka! JCU scores with dengue and dingoes
- For scientists, early to press means success
- Helping parents to help kids – public meeting
- Innovative medical device a step closer to market
- JCU-NTEU reach ‘in principle’ agreement
- Jeff Kennett to present business lecture at JCU
- Last chance to enrol in type 2 diabetes foot study
- Securing the future for Australia’s sharks
- Test to more rapidly diagnose deadly tropical disease
- The north’s future and how to get there
- Townsville to host hundreds of budding scientists
- Variety of work chosen for Colin Roderick shortlist
- Western adventure for budding vets
- Why great creative and research discoveries are in serious decline
- Why we need to care for carnivores
- Wildlife face ‘Armageddon’ as forests shrink
- Australian literary giant awarded
- CN Barton Medal to acknowledge bright engineer
- Endangered frog gets new lease of life
- International group to lead coastal research
- Invitation to the Last Lecture at JCU (Cairns)
- Invitation to the Last Lecture at JCU (Townsville)
- Learn how to do business with Asia
- Lecture theatres temporarily closed
- Lost world discovered on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula
- Mystery moss rediscovered
- Public forum on future of reef
- Sharks face challenge for survival
- The crucial years of Middle School
- Time to act on maths science in schools
- TropEco Awards recognise sustainability achievements at JCU
- Why you should care who does your blood test
- ‘Ghost’ fish taking over the Caribbean
- $4.3m boost for research
- Ancient Chinese mythical characters transformed in new exhibition
- Best and brightest tropical researchers meet
- Getting up close and personal at the molecular level
- JCU’s careers services voted best
- JCU’s half billion dollar plus impact
- Listening for the sounds of the sea
- Mathematics used to solve bulk materials matter
- Reef fish find it’s too hot to swim
- Researchers call on community to help fight melioidosis
- Species turn refugees to escape climate extremes
- Student in hospital following fall
- Students to immerse themselves in French culture
- A tree falls - forever
- Andy’s dream to change the world
- Help for prospective students at decision time
- JCU may opt for a collegial structure
- JCU to put headline restructure to staff
- Looking at what’s in store for Bowen
- Overseas travellers urged to remember their health
- Study is over – time to graduate