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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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New smartphone app promises to keep the doctor away longer
Innovative minds have an opportunity to turn their ideas into reality and share in $40,000 worth of prizes.
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.