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Thursday 17 July 2025
UOW pool renamed in honour of Olympic legend Emma McKeon
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Four UOW researchers named among Australia’s 100 Future Fellows
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UOW research keeping soldiers safe on the front line
State-of-the-art robotic welding and fabrication methods developed at UOW are playing a vital role in keeping Australia’s Defence personnel safe.
Marketing scholarship for Campus East resident
Financial strains have eased for one UOW student who is the recipient of The Illawarra Mercury Marketing Work Integrated Learning Scholarship.
Academic investigates how medical history informs today's decisions
How influential has the Nazi analogy been in recent medical debates on euthanasia? Is the history of eugenics being revived in modern genetic technologies? And what does the tragic history of thalidomide and its recent reintroduction for new medical treatments tell us about how governments solve ethical dilemmas?
Discovery could lead to new drug targets to fight Alzheimer's Disease
In collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford (UK), scientists at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), based at the University of Wollongong, have made a significant contribution to the worldwide search for drug targets to prevent or treat age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and other types of dementia, which affect more than 44.4 million people worldwide.
Environment and Energy
Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans?
By Professor Alistair McIlgorm.
Library staff volunteer at Illawarra Book Fair
UOW Library staff volunteered their time and skills at the Lifeline Book Fair last month for the third consecutive year.