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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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Thursday 30 April 2026

Eight UOW students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships

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UOW Vice-Chancellor to deliver HEPI Annual Lecture

The United Kingdom’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has announced that University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings, CBE, will deliver HEPI’s next Annual Lecture in London in November this year.

Wollongong strengthens its research ties with India

UOW signs MoU with two of the oldest and most prestigious Institutes of Technology in India.

UOW launches first national science short film competition

The first national science short film competition will foster creativity and engagement in science education.

New home for Illawarra entrepreneurs underway

Construction on the region’s first high-tech business incubator will officially start today (Thursday 10 April) when the Minister for the Illawarra John Ajaka MLC joins University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings to break ground at the Innovation Campus.

Books created by artists on show at UOW Library

An exhibition of artists’ books will be opened at 12.30PM Friday 11 April at the University of Wollongong Library’s Panizzi Room. 

Discovery could lead to new drug targets to fight Alzheimer's Disease

In collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford (UK), scientists at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), based at the University of Wollongong, have made a significant contribution to the worldwide search for drug targets to prevent or treat age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and other types of dementia, which affect more than 44.4 million people worldwide.