Media Releases
Browse our Media Releases from 2013
January
Helping inspire local students to further study
Mobile units gather extra cyclone data throughout city
Students getting down to business at JCU
Turtles respond to climate change
Wanted: young males for exercise test
February
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
March
Cicada wings tear bacteria to pieces
Creative talent set to graduate
Examining social change over time
Honorary doctorates for distinguished three
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
April
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
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
May
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
JCU students rewarded with bursaries
Kids keep track of turtle trips
Monster cyclone possible for Cairns
Reefs ‘ruled by earthquakes and volcanoes’
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?
Vice-Chancellor’s speech to the National Press Club
Vital elements under the microscope
June
Helping PNG with mental health
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
July
Indigenous students help identify an “effective teacher”
JCU engineers show off first-generation race car
News and Media Colin Roderick lecture – Drusilla Modjeska
Spotlight on Indigenous research
August
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
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
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
Polio pioneer’s work examined in lecture
Social media stars present a night of hilarity and science
Spotlight on safer roads for both cyclists and motorists
Swiss scholarship for toxoplasma researcher
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
September
A step closer to developing new anti-influenza agents
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
October
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
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
November
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
December
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
