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Wednesday 3 December 2025
UOW’s Early Years Accelerated program strengthened with $1.9 million in funding
Read more about UOW’s Early Years Accelerated program strengthened with $1.9 million in fundingWednesday 3 December 2025
Discovery Days inspire more than 900 South Coast Year 6 students
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Science and Technology
Animal attraction: how fish scales and magnetism could help mop up oil spills
Discovering what makes oil bond to some surfaces and not others could be the key to environmental clean ups.
Health and Medicine
UOW researchers looking at signs of mental illness
Researchers are calling on the community to help them better understand perceptions of mental illness in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region.
Law, Politics and Society
UOW congratulates its Queen’s Birthday Award recipients
University of Wollongong (UOW) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings CBE, today congratulated four associates whose service was recognised in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Science and Technology
Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
Health and Medicine
UOW welcomes new Dean of Medicine
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nicholas Zwar as its new Dean of Medicine.
Education
Innovative children’s book boosts executive functioning
As an alternative to expensive and time consuming computerised ‘brain-training’ activities, UOW researchers have developed a children’s book that boosts early executive functions.