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Research Profile

FOCUSED ON PARTNERSHIPS, STRENGTH and EXCELLENCE

The UOW's Profiling our Research Partners is now available online and in print.

The profile is a collection of articles describing many of the UOW’s exciting and strategic research collaborations with national and international partners (industry and institutions).
It also includes information on our Research Strengths (2007-2009), the innovation campus and commercialising our research.

> Download the brochure Profiling our Research Partners (1373 KB .pdf file)

 Multi Media Files

2009

• These two UOW business ideas entries (ToughSkin and WarraPharm) were among seven finalists in the annual University of Queensland (UQ) Business School's annual Enterprize competition designed to assist start-up companies. >View press release.
  - ToughSkin is a revolutionary polymer coating technology designed to be applied to upgrades and repairs of major infrastructure projects.
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  - Warrapharm Pty Ltd is a UOW start-up company designing a suite of therapeutic reformulations that offer an improved side-effect profile in the treatment of colorectal cancer.
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• Bridget Munro from the School of Health Sciences conducts Biomechanics Research, more specifically Applied Biomechanics Research - related to the human body. One of her research projects was focused on Hang Gliding injury and prevention. She recently won an award to use her research to work with football clubs in the UK. By Jordan Treddinick from the online/convergence journalism 1 class (BACHELOR of JOURNALISM program), Faculty of Creative Arts, 2009. 
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• Blake Cochran is undergoing his PHD in Biology and currently works at the University of Wollongong as a Researcher. He has always been interested in what actually constitutes something which is alive. Molecular Biology and Cell Biology has allowed him to explore this area. By Melissa Coade from the online/convergence journalism 1 class (BACHELOR of JOURNALISM program), Faculty of Creative Arts, 2009.
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• Recently posted on You Tube: 'Nanostructures as Electromaterials'. A fantastic animation explaining the world of nanobionics. Narrated by Prof. Gordon Wallace from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI)
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• Troy Lowe, a PhD student at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), talks about fabricating micro-sized pH sensitive electrodes made from Iridium and using these to detect local pH changes near the surface of zinc and zinc alloy. This work is part of a larger project to understand corrosion mechanisms of metal coatings.
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• Alberto J. Granero, a PhD student from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) talks on elastic conducting rubber-carbon nanotubes fibres/strings/composites. The aim of his project is to produce conducting strings or fibres that are biocompatible in order to be used in medical applications, for example implanting artificial body parts like muscles.
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• Professors Mike Morwood and Bert Roberts.
  An academic from the University of Adelaide, who tried to discredit a University of Wollongong team's discovery of a hobbit-like human species in Indonesia has faced disciplinary action for serious misconduct.View a video of researchers discussing the Discovery of the Hobbit and read an Illawarra Mercury article.
  >'Hobbit' critic disciplined by his University
  Also - scroll down to see the Flores excavation site
  
  
  
• Hear Dr Pia Winberg being interviewed by Nick Rheinberger from ABC Radio Illawarra for the first Uni in the Brewery for 2009. Pia is the Director of the UOW’s Shoalhaven Marine and Freshwater Centre (SMFC). She spoke about Marine Protected Areas (or MPAs) with A/Prof. Andy Davis at the Five Islands Brewery on Wednesday 11th March.
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• Dr. Simon Moulton from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) recently gave a seminar on his QEII Project "Strategies towards in-vivo Targeted Drug Delivery for Epilepsy Control". For enquiries regarding his research please contact the IPRI on (02) 42213127.
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2008

• Hear Prof.Sharon Robinson, Director of the Institute for Conservation Biology and Law being interviewed by Mr Peter Riley from ABC Radio on the final Uni in the Brewery presentation for 2008:"Climate Change makes life tougher for Antarctic plants"
  Sharon has visited the Antarctic five times, to monitor the mosses growing there and to investigate the effects of climate change.
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• Hear Dr Wilf Yeo from the Graduate School of Medicine being interviewed by ABC Radio's Nick Rheinberger on his Uni in the Brewery presentation "Modern Medicine : How long can we live?"
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  In his presentation Wilf discussed whether Modern medicine serves modern society well, and whether society understands modern medicine...
  
  
  
• See and hear Professor Gordon Wallace (Intelligent Polymer Research Institute) talk about Nanotechnology 
  > view video   (5.33MB .wmv / 3:10 mins)
  "Being involved in the medical applications of nanotechnology is like a dream. Working with people like Professor Clark who developed the Bionic Ear, using nanotechnology to look at new challenges in bionics and how we can make nano materials to solve those things like spinal chord regeneration. "  Sourced from http://www.innovation.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
  
  
  
• Read about the Hobbit a one metre tall human skeleton discovered on an Indonesian island called Flores by a team of archaeologists led by UOW’s Professor Mike Morwood (UOW) and Professor R.P. Soejono from the Indonesian Research Centre for Archaeology.
  > See transcript of interview with Professor Bert Roberts (a geochronologist from the UOW) from an episode of Lateline: "Bone discovery sparks scientific debate" first broadcast on 12 October 2005.
  > View a short video of the excavation site Liang Bua (2007), and learn more about the research project nicknamed "The Hobbit"
  
  
  
  
  
• Hear an interview with Associate Professor Wilma Vialle and Nick Rheinberger from ABC local radio. Wilma is discussing her research and her presentation at the Five Islands Brewery as part of Uni in the Brewery.
  "Negative attitudes to gifted students and evidence-supported interventions such as acceleration are often the result of the stereotypes promulgated by the so-called popular culture. What images of giftedness and gifted education are prevalent in our popular culture? And how do these images affect gifted students? "
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• A research publication Outcomes: Results of research in the real world 2008 has been produced by the ARC in partnership with Palamedia Ltd to showcase examples of Australian research.
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