Media Releases
Browse our Media Releases from 2023
- Venom or silk? Funnel-web behaviour laid bare
- Global variation in the fate of coral reefs
- Fishy project set to turn up the heat
- Early Alzheimer’s detection a step closer
- Indigenous leader elected as JCU’s next Chancellor
- 2624 new places at JCU, and more to come
- Travel industry faces post-pandemic choices
- Most coral reef sharks and rays may be at risk of extinction
- Building standards in cyclone areas need upgrading
- Manufacturing to take off with Area 61
- Professor honoured with Australia Day role
- New tech opens doors for cancer detection
- Breakthrough testing standard developed for COVID-19 RATs
- Soldiers ‘use the force’ to stay fighting fit
- New study to help bush kids
- New study reveals critically low numbers of north Queensland quolls
- Study adds more brains to the brawn
- Citizen scientists tend oyster gardens
- World Radio Day celebrates unstoppable radio
- Veterans’ exhibition arrives at JCU
- Hi-tech is making the seas transparent
- New way to check if turtles are ‘fat and happy’
- Scientists solving micro jellyfish mystery
- When will invasive species be considered native?
- Social work students lend a hand to GPs
- Cairns Medicine degree begins
- Spectacular new species discovered on remote Queensland island
- From jellyfish and corals to a molecular thermometer
- Foundation delivers double for JCU students
- Treating older workers better
- Touch footy star’s scholarship first
- Heatwave risk needs quick response
- Revheads without hats
- Mindfulness can help diabetes sufferers
- Planning a future at the edge of Australia
- Robed and ready: 221 new Cairns graduates
- Curious rats solve puzzles
- Farmers in cyberspace
- Oral cancer warning
- Link between alcohol consumption and partner violence in PNG
- Putting flight patterns under the microscope
- Massive study pinpoints Covid prevention strategies for kids
- Reef fishes are changing
- Scientists track one of the world’s most invasive ants in waterways
- Higher density housing needed - but regions have to be careful
- Students soar with airport scholarship
- JCU program delivers its first Invictus Games competitor
- Suicide link to climate change unfounded
- Tackling the psychology of poaching
- Climate change hits birds’ birth rates
- Mackay JCU campuses gifted Indigenous name
- Building healthier, stronger Torres Strait communities from within
- City cane toads evolving
- ‘Nemo’s’ remarkable gene switch to a life on the reef
- Economics and optics influence environmental program
- JCU to develop a better breeding barra
- Abuse and neglect put kids on fast track to crime
- Small, fast-growing reef fishes evolved in a warming ocean
- Ambos feel the heat
- Funnel-web spider venom varies
- Stroke recovery research: help needed
- History made as JCU honours first Indigenous Chancellor
- Panel to shed light on Voice to Parliament
- Hairdressers to look for dangerous cancers
- Mindfulness program gets a new workout
- Bettong genes reveal a problem
- Saving Sarah the Sawfish
- Covering children checks cancer
- Reef sharks at much higher risk of extinction than previously thought
- Students strengthen connections with marine world
- Human rights vital for conservation
- i-RAT: a new tool for more efficient sugarcane irrigation
- Students thrive at Winter School
- FNQ’s healthy future takes shape
- Radio remains top of the pops
- Bright sparks get taste of engineering with JCU
- Scientists raise alarm over research interference
- Know your enemy – mosquito species in the Pacific
- No refuge from plastic
- New AI tech helps pick the fittest fish
- Threatened plant rescue is a Eureka Prize finalist
- JCU researcher scholarships now highest in Queensland
- Scientists search for adaptive coral reefs
- Youth justice study shows fatal trend
- Tiny worms help with a huge health problem
- Scientists push boundaries in flu fight
- Deep reef dive reveals new discoveries
- Fixing the new dog blues
- JCU’s 5 stars for success
- Tropical forests may be approaching a critical threshold
- Construction starts on landmark CTEC
- Large-scale seagrass restoration takes root in Tropical Australia
- Trevally’s mystery spread probed
- New ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity
- Allergy tests come up short
- Weed sprayer a game-changer for farmers
- $34m support for ground-breaking JCU programs and research
- Deepfakes tricky to spot
- Restoring the Smiles of Yarrabah
- Indigenous students soar at awards
- JCU seeks industry partners for a healthy future
- Corals storm back after ‘sea-weeding’ project
- Plant pathogen threatens rare parrot
- Extremist views infiltrate land claims
- Study links obesity and sleep
- Clear and precise a winner for being liked
- Long-term decline in GBR dugong populations confirmed
- Outstanding Alumni shine at Awards
- Canned fish can still trigger allergic reactions
- Sensor the size of a single molecule a potential game-changer
- Scholarship gives platform for success
- Scientists have nearly eradicated dengue
- Amazon secrets unveiled
- ‘The Jaguar’ catches 2023 Roderick Literary Award
- JCU researchers conduct their first single cell experiments
- Spraying away Pacific island mozzies
- Uni and Army face off for Games showdown
- Roderick prize for Australian literature jumps to $50,000
- Climate change and mental health
- Mindfulness program expands to help women
- The healing charms of music
- Academy opens door to JCU students
- Map project digitally unlocks the past
- Scientists probe nature’s new balance
- Quarantine glasshouse to help fight invasive plants
- Elusive skink found in Queensland after 42 years
- Residents urged to prep for disasters
- Northern bees at risk from insecticide
- Research into new treatments for a deadly disease
- ‘Calm Your Farm’! Farm injury prevention game for teens
- Citizen scientists help discover new mantis species
- Traditional Owners study ancient marine ecosystem as it spawns the next generation of corals
- JCU Welcomes Engineers without Borders
- Stingray diet keeps Hammerhead sharks close to shore
- Coral – algae relationships investigated
- Scientists fight new spread of tropical disease
- JCU wants your flood pics and videos
- Octopus DNA contains grave warning for sea level rise