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Tuesday 14 April 2026
New project develops smart surfboard fins to help reduce shark attack risk
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Environment and Energy
Innovative research turning your food waste into energy
Households and businesses in Sydney and the Illawarra are set to benefit from an Australian-first research project between Sydney Water and the University of Wollongong (UOW).
Education
UOW welcomes new Executive Dean of Law, Humanities and the Arts
Professor Theo Farrell to bring outstanding record of scholarship and academic leadership to the role
Health and Medicine
Children with neonatal abstinence syndrome more likely to perform poorly in NAPLAN
Study finds that exposure to opiates in the womb can have a negative effects on a child’s school results
Science and Technology
Primitive cousin Homo naledi much younger than thought
Dating of fossils shows the species co-existed with modern humans
Arts and Culture
Bruce Gordon Scholarship for Journalism awarded to aspiring journo
Hannah Laxton-Koonce receives work integrated learning scholarship.
Science and Technology
World nanotechnology experts to descend on Wollongong
International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to be held in Wollongong in 2018.