Media Releases
Browse our Media Releases from 2021
- Progress made on youth drowning, but more work required
- Future too warm for baby sharks
- Application Numbers are up at JCU
- Ex-Tropical Cyclone Kimi
- Warning after aid worker vanishes
- JCU Professor honoured with Australia Day role
- Reef fish futures foretold
- Rising Extinction Risk for Sharks and Rays
- It’s not just cricket
- When holidays go wrong
- Refugee stress and molecular mental health
- Planning for COVID-driven regional growth
- Determined to fix outback internet
- Overcoming the email avalanche
- Just add water: the ‘Internet of Things’ goes underwater
- Psychedelic drug may free addicts
- The future of infectious disease modelling?
- Slow lies: sincerity is in the timing
- Magnetic attraction: breakthrough test for malaria
- Pharmacy courses take off
- BESIX Watpac to build JCU’s Technology Innovation Complex
- JCU Professor’s rare honour
- Rock lobster habitat’s rocky future
- ‘Sack the manager’ call supported by science
- Half a trillion corals: world-first coral count prompts rethink of extinction risks
- New scholarship winner
- Both old and young fish sustain fisheries
- Which cyclone prepper are you?
- Indigenous kids are losing sleep
- Weed invaders are getting faster
- Who vanishes?
- Shell middens rewrite history of submerged coastal landscapes in North America & Europe
- Night shift more at risk from Covid
- Motherhood makes crazy ants lazy
- DNA testing reveals hidden coral diversity
- Managing like a Boss
- How do animals solve problems?
- Pre-school mole count shows cancer risk
- JCU hub to fight the effect and impact of drought
- Eddie Koiki Mabo receives Honorary Doctorate from JCU
- Striking Gold! Gold barramundi for aquaculture
- In search of a cure: new findings on cell behaviour
- Migrants not more likely to drown
- New JCU drug therapy to improve healing after ACL reconstruction
- Mapping the ‘superhighways’ travelled by the first Australians
- Limited fishing zones support reef conservation
- Track record predicts future romance
- Complex passwords aren't always best
- Time running out to save coral reefs
- Health check upgrade for the world’s wildlife
- New tech targets crazy ant invaders
- Triage rules needed for health workers
- Feeling lonely? Turn up the volume!
- Busting the Florence Nightingale myth
- Study finds most teens don’t wash their hands
- Wetland increase has multiple benefits
- JCU professor takes on international role
- Sniffing out a solution to protecting wild canines
- Tech can help with lockdown blues
- Three factors exacerbate suicide in bullied teens
- The ethics of food waste
- More ‘fairness’ needed in conservation
- High School Health Heroes
- Is Autism linked to a more ‘male’ brain?
- More focus needed on female travellers’ needs
- Baby reef fishes swim for gold
- AI breakthrough in premature baby care
- Cairns gives a warm welcome to earthly experts
- Emergency departments used for non-urgent cases
- Leading scientists praise UNESCO’s leadership after draft decision on the Great Barrier Reef
- Local responses to the big economic challenges
- Delta a new challenge for herd immunity
- Music listening habits give insight into human nature
- Dogs vs cats in lockdown
- Banishing bandits: other countries bear the cost
- Taking the sting out of stonefish
- AI key to easing back pain
- Lockdown health impact better than Covid
- Funding windfall to accelerate kidney research
- Science superstars shine in Tall Poppy Awards
- Measuring conservation in a way that counts
- $5m grant to turbocharge aquaculture research in the north
- Classes are back at JCU
- Parasites to fight chemical and biological weapons
- JCU soars to success again
- Study finds baby turtles’ stomachs full of plastic debris
- Brain structure differences unlikely to be a major source of sex differences in behaviour
- Repairing wetlands using big business
- JCU researchers uncover possible ‘Jurassic Arc’
- JCU’s global ranking success
- Baring arms against mosquitoes
- A dog’s life – they’re not all equal
- Sea snake attacks may be misdirected courtship
- Massive coral discovered on GBR
- Drought forecasting unlocked by AI
- JCU in ground-breaking effort to restore lost GBR Seagrass meadows
- Dark tourism can lead to dark places
- Chilled vibes ease work stress
- Turtles and dugongs boost Reef health
- JCU’s world-class result
- AI weather forecasting for smart farms
- Kids need the jab for herd immunity
- Corals roll with the punches
- Northern Australian parasites key to diabetes cure
- Sharks and rays under threat
- Re-routing a major mining road to save nature and money
- Harnessing potential treasure trove of modern medicines from tropical plants
- Fight is on to beat exotic diseases
- JCU’s Thursday Island campus Indigenous name unveiled
- Barriers in a sea of sharks and rays
- Review finds remote nurse safety lacking
- Music trumps video during lockdown
- Online book helps explain devastating dementia condition
- New work on climate change
- Understanding recent arrivals
- Professor Simon Biggs appointed VC of JCU
- New technique to find ‘missing’ frogs
- New awards recognise JCU’s sporting excellence
- Indigenous students celebrated at awards
- Scholarship offers ‘life-changing’ opportunity
- New study to deliver biosecurity boost to north’s prawn industry
- Wetlands save thousands, worth billions
- Research focus on gut diseases
- Uni and Army set to battle it out
- Knightly honour for JCU Professor
- ‘Pet prep’ could be key to disaster survival
- A broader mission for TNQ Drought Hub
- 'Splendid' novel wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award
- New agreement sends soldiers from the battlefield to the classroom
- Ghost nets a growing problem
- Tradies to become teachers with JCU
- No joke – male humour helps groups reach goals
- JCU a global ‘engine room’ for marine sustainability research
- If you can read this, it’s time to thank a teacher
- Promising new JCU tuberculosis research funded
- Plankton-eating fish drive fishing ‘sweet spots’
- The secret life of Box jellyfish
- Flying the flag for forests
- A Child of Darkness
- Rapid-fire climate extremes leave the Great Barrier Reef a bleached ‘checkerboard’
- Reconnecting to the sea for coastal wetlands restoration
- Mystery creatures yet to be discovered
- Battle to stop spread of new drug-resistant staph
- Appointment of Prof Martin Nakata as DVC Indigenous Education and Strategy
- New research partnership to champion water security for Northern Australia
- Elite scientists recognised
- Coral identity crisis
- JCU launches ‘lifestyle medicine’ courses
- Gala celebrates international students
- Laptops to make life-changing difference
- Cyclonic book launched
- Seagrass data mapped
- The wicked problem of violence in healthcare
- Reality bites: lack of awareness of oral health-illness link
- JCU’s plan to bolster Mackay region health workforce
- JCU honours Outstanding Alumni
- Keeping males in the fridge – the future of Aquaculture
- Reef trip a turtley awesome adventure
- Cancer-causing ‘junk’ under the microscope
- JCU helps develop next-gen lamb
- New $22M AIMS@JCU partnership to broaden research insights and capabilities
- Female genital mutilation victim care can be improved
- Better survival chances in the bush
- Northern Australia universities launch new alliance
- Same-sex couples find their own way