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Wednesday 15 January 2025

As blue carbon dynamos, mangroves can elevate soil to adjust to rising sea levels

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Final teaching workplace change plan announced

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Articles

Visionary leaves health legacy

The visionary academic who drove the development of the University of Wollongong’s Medical School described it as “everything I could have hoped for” at his farewell function on Tuesday 11 February.

Meet the man who has completed the fastest ever circumnavigation of the Earth on foot

In December 2011, Dr Tom Denniss a UOW Bachelor of Mathematics graduate and founder of renewable energy company Oceanlinx, embarked on a run around the world to raise money for Oxfam.

New target identified in fight against Motor Neurone Disease

Researchers publish important paper on the cause and spread of Motor Neurone Disease.

The story of steel maps the job future for car workers

While the car industry may no longer remain viable in Australia, the workers’ skills are far from redundant, writes human geographer and Director of UOW's Global Challenges Program, Professor Chris Gibson.

Graduate takes injury prevention to SES’ front line

State Emergency Services (SES) members in NSW are exposed to special workplace risks in unpredictable environments.

Research links famous ballad to birth of ALP

Research by a PhD student in UOW’s School of Humanities and Social Inquiry has uncovered a much earlier version of one of Australia's most famous folk songs, linking it to a strike which almost caused a civil war and led to the birth of the Australian Labor Party.