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Thursday 11 June 2026
UOW celebrates the life of former Vice-Chancellor Ken McKinnon AO
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Children need protection from harmful junk food marketing: report
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Business and Economy
Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics
A mathematical law called Jensen’s inequality shows the Robodebt algorithm should have generated not only debts, but also credits
Education
Using geometry to fight fires and cure blood disease
Dr Valentina Wheeler honoured with the 2023 Christopher Heyde Medal from The Australian Academy of Science
New UOW appointments to transform computational statistics and marine industries
Professor Sumeetpal Singh begins as the Tibra Foundation Chair in Mathematical Sciences and Associate Professor Michelle Voyer as the Keira Endowed Professor in Energy Futures
Students
UOW graduate receives prestigious Engineers Australia Graduate Award
Harry Cameron recognised as a dedicated engineering graduate
Environment and Energy
New ARC hub to turn the TIDE on offshore energy research
UOW contributes expertise in uncertainty quantification, statistical inference and artificial intelligence to new ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub
Science and Technology
How Professor Robin Thompson’s childhood fuelled his lifelong interest in statistics
Honorary doctorate recipient helped develop systems that transformed data from plot and paddock to publication