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UOW partners with Illawarra Disability Alliance to enhance local services
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UOW celebrates the life of former Vice-Chancellor Ken McKinnon AO
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Health and Medicine
Study outlines skills needed for aged care nursing
Rapidly ageing population placing new demands on workforce
Environment and Energy
Workshop looks at how drones are revolutionising science and business
Academics and entrepreneurs come together to discuss innovative new uses of technology
Science and Technology
Handheld surgical ‘biopen’ repairs damaged cartilage in sheep
Researchers have shown that a handheld 3D printing pen can successfully print living cells in surgery to repair cartilage defects in sheep.
Science and Technology
Nanotech breakthrough reduces car exhaust pollution
Researchers create material that improves catalytic converter efficacy by “three to four times”
Health and Medicine
Children with neonatal abstinence syndrome more likely to perform poorly in NAPLAN
Study finds that exposure to opiates in the womb can have a negative effects on a child’s school results
Science and Technology
Primitive cousin Homo naledi much younger than thought
Dating of fossils shows the species co-existed with modern humans