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Monday 15 December 2025
UOW appoints new Council members
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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.
Environment and Energy
Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
Coal powered the machinery and lit what English poet William Blake described as ‘dark satanic mills’, writes Professor Simon Ville.
Science and Technology
A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
New evidence shows hobbits were in Indonesia at least 700,000 years ago, writes Dr Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh.
Science and Technology
Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
Environment and Energy
Engineering students map flood risk in megacity of Jakarta
A group of UOW engineering students have investigated the deepest depths of Jakarta in not unchallenging conditions – all in the name of research.