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Thursday 18 June 2026
World-first global assessment maps PFAS pollution in whales and dolphins
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UOW maintains its place among the top 200 universities in the world
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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.
SMART researchers partner with Twitter to decipher big data
A University of Wollongong research team harnessing the power of social media to map floods in the Indonesian capital city Jakarta has been chosen to take part in a pilot project that aims to give researchers free and easy access to Twitter’s dataset.