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Thursday 30 April 2026
Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regeneration
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Eight UOW students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships
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Finding the right words to deliver a vital cancer message to Serbian and Macedonian communities
A campaign to breakdown the stigma of cancer and bowel screening among Serbian and Macedonian communities in the Illawarra was launched this week.
Health and Medicine
UOW researchers win Gates Foundation grant to make next generation condoms
A team of researchers from UOW has received Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding to help develop a Next Generation Condom that “significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use”.
Study to measure the health and wellbeing of Illawarra families
A unique study to track the health and wellbeing of Illawarra families over time has commenced with a feasibility study at the Wollongong Hospital with pregnant women.
Illawarra Flame house finds Sustainability Street a place to call home
The award-winning Illawarra Flame house will be the first working model of sustainable building practices.
UOW joins campaign to put a stop to racism
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is proud to have joined forces with some of Australia’s leading businesses, sporting bodies, NGOs and other universities to support the ‘Racism. It stops with me.’ Campaign from June 2.
Medical students go west to help rural and remote communities
UOW medical students will on Monday (2 June) embark on a week-long road trip through western New South Wales to experience first hand the challenges of health care in rural and remote communities.