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Thursday 30 April 2026
Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regeneration
Read more about Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regenerationThursday 30 April 2026
Eight UOW students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships
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Visionary leaves health legacy
The visionary academic who drove the development of the University of Wollongong’s Medical School described it as “everything I could have hoped for” at his farewell function on Tuesday 11 February.
The story of steel maps the job future for car workers
While the car industry may no longer remain viable in Australia, the workers’ skills are far from redundant, writes human geographer and Director of UOW's Global Challenges Program, Professor Chris Gibson.
Graduate takes injury prevention to SES’ front line
State Emergency Services (SES) members in NSW are exposed to special workplace risks in unpredictable environments.
Research links famous ballad to birth of ALP
Research by a PhD student in UOW’s School of Humanities and Social Inquiry has uncovered a much earlier version of one of Australia's most famous folk songs, linking it to a strike which almost caused a civil war and led to the birth of the Australian Labor Party.
UOW going digital for an Early Start to children's learning
New forms of interactive digital learning and classroom-to-home connectivity are transforming early years education in New South Wales thanks to a revolutionary approach to teaching and learning pioneered at the University of Wollongong.
Prehistoric DNA unearths the diets of ancient Arctic megafauna
A consortium of research groups, including one from University of Wollongong, has helped to create a fuller and more complete picture of the vegetation that existed across the Arctic during and after the last Ice Age and its role in the extinction of ancient megafauna, such as the iconic woolly mammoth.