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Thursday 5 March 2026
Dr Tamantha Stutchbury named 2026 Wollongong Local Woman of the Year
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Wollongong academic secures Fulbright for international cybersecurity research
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Academics get a taste of extreme poverty
Associate Professor Karen Charlton from the School of Medicine will survive on just $2 a day as she takes on the five day Live Below the Line challenge to raise awareness about the 1.2 billion people who live in extreme poverty.
Environment and Energy
WA shark cull season ends, and ocean users don’t want it to return
Research by Dr Leah Gibbs suggests Western Australians don't want the shark culling to continue.
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.
Gongfest conference a quantum leap in fundamental maths
When Austrian mathematician Johann Radon came up with a series of calculations in 1917 that would later bear his name, he would have had no idea they would one day be used in everyday medical imaging.
Boost for electronic devices and vehicle batteries
An international team of researchers at the UOW’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) have developed a new way of constructing silicon-based lithium ion batteries that has important implications for the next generation of electric-powered vehicles and electronic devices.