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Friday 22 November 2024

Could printable organic x-ray sensors transform treatment for cancer patients?

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Friday 22 November 2024

UOW ranks 52nd globally in THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025

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Articles

Annual lecture outlines challenge of coal, climate and nature conservation

Nature Conservation Council of NSW CEO Pepe Clarke outlined a vision to resolve the conflict between conservation and mining as guest speaker at this year’s Allan Sefton Memorial Lecture.

Professor Barry Harper retires after 39 years at UOW

After almost 40 years with UOW, Emeritus Professor Barry Harper – a former Dean of Education and, most recently, Academic Dean of UOW Programmes at INTI International University and Colleges in Malaysia and Pro Vice-Chancellor South East Asia – is retiring. 

Hundreds of UOW graduates attend alumni events in major Asian cities

UOW has further strengthened its relationship with alumni living in Asia, following a three-country tour by members of the UOW Office of Advancement and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Professor Joe Chicharo.

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. 

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.