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Wednesday 15 April 2026
UOW appoints Professor Ana Deletic as Provost
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New project develops smart surfboard fins to help reduce shark attack risk
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Science and Technology
Students bound for Rio
Olympic fever has well and truly hit UOW, with a number of students past and present making their way to Rio in the coming weeks.
Health and Medicine
Circle of silence perpetuates chronic use of sleeping tablets in older Australians
Study looks at older Australians’ attitudes to ceasing long-term use of sleeping tablets.
Science and Technology
Dr Karl busting scientific myths at UOW
Curly questions, scientific myth-busting and very loud shirts will be the focus of an evening at UOW with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Science and Technology
Materials scientist named Eureka Prize finalist
Professor Gordon Wallace nominated for a prestigious Eureka Prize for his pioneering work developing ‘intelligent polymers’.
Science and Technology
Harvesting seaweed to make skin from the sea
Researchers from the South Coast of NSW are hoping to develop new treatments for burns and wounds, by using the most plentiful resource at their fingertips – the sea.
Science and Technology
Peeling off the layers for new electronics
Scientists use oxygen ‘scissors’ to make freestanding single-atom silicon layer.