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Friday 16 January 2026
Researchers and UOW alumni to take centre stage at TEDxWollongong
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280,000-year-old fossils rewrite rock wallaby history, epic journeys shaped survival
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Primary school students to ‘taste’ university life across UOW’s regional campuses
More than 2,000 Year 5 and 6 students and their parents will visit the University of Wollongong’s campuses in Wollongong, Shoalhaven, Batemans Bay, Bega and the Southern Highlands over the next month to explore their future career options after they finish school.
Footage of Royal visit to Wollongong published
UOW Library has digitised and published rare footage of the 1954 Royal visit to Wollongong.
One-punch laws risk injustice UOW legal expert warns
The stark ramifications of the one-punch law came into play in the District Court in Wollongong this week with a UOW legal academic again in the media spotlight stressing the difficulties facing judges having to deal with the new law.
UOW congratulates next Governor of NSW
University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings today warmly congratulated the Chief of the Australian Defence Force, General David Hurley, on being named the next NSW Governor.
Finding the right words to deliver a vital cancer message to Serbian and Macedonian communities
A campaign to breakdown the stigma of cancer and bowel screening among Serbian and Macedonian communities in the Illawarra was launched this week.
Health and Medicine
UOW researchers win Gates Foundation grant to make next generation condoms
A team of researchers from UOW has received Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding to help develop a Next Generation Condom that “significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use”.