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Friday 24 July 2026
A decade of iAccelerate celebrated with launch of UOW Innovation Catalyst
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International
A record 29,000 Mexicans were murdered last year – can soldiers stop the bloodshed?
Mexico’s war on drugs has left 234,966 people dead in the last 11 years. In 2017 alone, the country saw some 29,000 murders, the highest annual tally since such record-keeping began in 1997.
Business and Economy
UOW finds and fixing superannuation errors
The University of Wollongong (UOW) has today (Wednesday 5 April 2017) committed to fully remediate incorrect superannuation contributions after discovering longstanding anomalies in its payroll system potentially affecting thousands of current and former employees since 2009.
Education
Should gifted students go to a separate school?
Despite two Senate inquiries in 1988 and 2001, it has taken 15 years and a state parliamentary review for the Victorian government to decide to build a specialist high school for students who are gifted, specifically targeting those from rural and regional Victoria.
Business and Economy
Like Pokemon, UOW's innovation is everywhere
Pokemon Go's $9.9 billion boost to the share value of Nintendo is the same as the total research income evaluated by the ARC, writes UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings.
Health and Medicine
‘Living here will make you fat’ – do we need a public health warning?
Men and women living in areas of highest socioeconomic disadvantage have a 29% higher risk of being obese, write Karen Charlton and Abhijeet Ghosh.
Global mobility partner institutions attend UOW’s inaugural ‘Partner Day’
UOW is strengthening its international ties conducting its inaugural global mobility ‘Partner Day’ on 25 February – timed to suit staff from UOW’s global student mobility partners attending the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) to be held in Melbourne from 29 February to 3 March.