Media Releases
Browse our Media Releases from 2022
- Gaming addiction linked to personality
- JCU in hot demand for study in 2022
- Teens lose sleep over bullying
- New Central Queensland healthcare training site announced
- The future for sharks: adapt, move or die
- Microscope zooms in on JCU research
- Crazy ants kill small rainforest skinks
- JCU set to kick goals for athletic performance
- Almost all corals face catastrophic bleaching
- Next-gen testing opens the way to beating kidney disease
- Poor sleep more common for Indigenous people
- Seaweed removal helps coral babies thrive
- International students welcomed with open arms
- Drone enterprise aims to map the world
- Rebuilding public trust in science and social media
- Sports scholarship sets Benson up for glory
- Hot-and-dry years on the rise
- Geology student wins life-changing scholarship
- JCU to continue fight against disabling tropical diseases with WHO
- A hookup may not make you feel better
- Concerns as development threatens reefs
- New strategies for saving the Great Barrier Reef
- Researchers forge path for women in STEM
- Turn on and tune out for free
- Unleashing the tiger – world-first mapping of the Aussie tiger prawn genome
- Deadly snakes proving to be slippery customers
- National Student Safety Survey
- Fade to grey – fish communities become duller as coral reefs die
- COVID-19 and the brain
- JCU Hub works to build ultimate athletes
- Ecosystems protect us from climate change – but they need our help
- Grads engineer their way to success
- New Director for the TNQ Drought Hub
- Study finds Emergency Department nurses routinely abused, facing violence
- JCU welcomes new Commonwealth Supported Places for medicine
- Call for new induced labour guidelines
- JCU students develop next-gen smart boat
- JCU soars in world rankings
- Flights to nowhere
- North’s military bases ‘playing catch-up’ against China
- Hotel quarantine should upgrade
- JCU’s Trailblazing research success
- Confronting pre-COVID mental health demons
- Rock fishers at risk while life jacket warnings go unheeded
- The future of food from the warming sea
- New study questions dingo culling
- Pepper the vaccine prepper
- Trauma Care in the Tropics
- Long lost ‘bum-breathing’ turtle makes its return
- Tropical scientists deliver a ‘World-first’ in Scotland
- AI sediment prediction tool a ‘world first’ for Reef
- Calls for targeted action as rural road toll exposed
- Dramatic loss of globe’s wetlands
- New treatment keeps bush kids close to home
- Rainforest trees have been dying faster since the 1980s
- Turtles, dugongs in danger from seagrass loss
- Croc meat may be unsafe for fish allergy sufferers
- New culprit found to cause shellfish allergy
- Lost tourists need new approach
- New program to boost veterans’ health
- The mating game
- Girls have worse Covid mental health than boys
- COVID not so easy to brush off
- Nature-based tourism benefits may be unfair
- Crunching down on food safety
- Citizen scientists getting it right
- Algae can help protect coral reefs – but it’s all in the timing
- New climate change threat to tropical rainforests
- Indigenous health gap can be closed
- How a Q&A could be career-defining
- On the trail of city art
- Future cricket stars to take skills to next level
- Tropics weather the COVID storm but challenges remain
- Healthy tropical brains
- Indigenous students excel at Winter School
- ‘Living green’ but wasting food
- Innovative stroke recovery research
- The double burden of climate change
- Park funding goes to tourists over environment
- Online mental health fine-tuned
- Study provides new clues to killer frog disease
- ‘Dog people’ may do better in lockdown
- Interactive health atlas zones in on northern Queensland needs
- O what a week!
- New era for uni accommodation
- ‘Groovy’ research unlocks secrets of wave energy
- New group to reignite cultural tourism
- Unlocking the power of innovation
- Keto therapy clinical trials
- Gulf mangrove dieback discovery
- Unique diamond find an Australian first
- Spearfishing restrictions boost fish stocks
- Great Barrier Reef plastics danger
- Native animals tangled in invasive songs
- Discovery could mean crops better equipped for climate change
- Big Ideas for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
- Scientists call for a national approach to marine and coastal restoration
- ‘Spooky’ moths stay on target
- Bushfire readiness warning for Townsville communities
- Sing like there’s nobody comparing
- Heatwaves’ killer impact
- JCU and Glencore join forces for critical turtle research
- Study links caesareans and cardiovascular risk
- ‘Cleaner’ fish potential parasite super-spreaders
- Study to tackle concussion head on
- Sharks walk away from climate change
- Breeding better waste munching flies
- Avoiding catastrophe
- Tornado trouble
- Indigenous students shine at awards
- Outstanding Alumni honoured
- JCU’s five stars for success
- Putting the ‘fun’ in functional training
- Cancer self-treatment concern
- Half of First Nations dementia may be preventable
- Snappy idea set to help crabbers
- Coal road to cut through imperilled rainforest
- Termites – busier as the planet warms
- New funding to fight allergies
- Scholarship sets students up for success
- Dino evolution research a huge step forward
- JCU launches full medical course in Cairns
- New reef to be named
- Uni and Army set for showdown
- DNA reveals the past and future of coral reefs
- Mass bleachings – but little change in GBR priorities
- JCU to host job-creating public service academy
- Radio in the golden age
- Djungan and Djabugay artefacts return home
- Apocalypse soon – scientists warn of insect decline
- Snakes’ deadly global toll
- Coral reefs can adapt in response to mild marine heatwaves
- New online tool for prenatal testing decisions
- ‘Wild Abandon’ wins 2022 Roderick Literary Award
- Veterans tap into mindfulness with new program
- Dugong Census Begins
- Students set to take off with scholarship
- Bringing back bushfoods: Australia’s landscape mapped to boost bush tucker
- New $89M national research centre at JCU
- New dates for Māori settlement of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Hit song secrets unveiled
- Game-changing tool to help rehab patients
- Supercharging aquaculture
- Elite scientists recognised
- NAPLAN not remotely working
- Staph spread tracked
- Playing with pride and protection
- Call for harder line on how we judge conservation
- Possums threatened by climate change
- Seagrass restoration project spans two oceans
- Reef businesses adapt to climate change
- New search technique to help find ‘green’ minerals
- Climate techno-fixes keep the planet on palliative care
- Kicking goals against TB
- Coral-eating starfish – another victim of climate change?
- Tyranny of distance impacts mental health in the bush
- Safety courses proposed for farm kids
- JCU helps solar cable power ahead
- Car crash risks higher in rural areas