Hometown heroes: Regional teachers making a local difference

Meet the graduates of UOW's Master of Teaching program building futures in their own communities.

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Putting a lid on recycling myths

It's National Recycling Week and we asked UOW's Dominique Di Leva to set the record straight.

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Healing, heritage, and higher learning: Sharyn McDonogh’s UOW journey

A resilient woman’s pursuit of healing and knowledge is inspiring others at UOW Eurobodalla.

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Welcome to The Stand Magazine

We bring to life subjects that illustrate the impact our students, teaching, research and graduates make in the world.

The Stand exists to unlock the knowledge and expertise inside the University of Wollongong (UOW), telling stories about our people and their accomplishments that inform, educate and inspire. This magazine was born out of a renewed sense of place, purpose and values that will guide the University in fulfilling its role in exploring how to resolve society’s large and complex social, environmental and economic challenges.

We believe education is one of the most powerful transformative forces on communities and individuals. It opens minds and helps people find purpose, meaning – and solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.

This is our unified story – a story that draws on our past, understands the present, and looks to the future.

Articles

Community, Health and Medicine, Study areas

No-needle diabetes

Managing complex conditions such as diabetes could be made cheaper and simpler following the development of a copper film that detects glucose from sweat or tears.
Community, Health and Medicine, Study areas

Disease freeze frame

Old enemies are making a comeback. Diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and malaria are stealing ground won over the past century. Antibiotics that help patients undergoing chemotherapy and routine surgery to fight infection are under threat.
Health and Medicine

Dementia-fighting plums

Researchers are testing Queen Garnet Plum juice on blood pressure and memory in one of the first human trials on the new ‘superfood'.
Health and Medicine, Study areas

Greener neighbourhoods, healthy start

Does the amount of green space in the neighbourhood have an effect on pregnancy outcomes, on a child’s academic scores, on their overall health? UOW researchers intend to find out.

Hope flows

A humanitarian project to provide clean drinking water to some of the world’s poorest people is showing UOW students what it takes to make a difference in the world.
Alumni

2016 Alumni Awards

Across the globe UOW alumni continue to dissolve the boundaries of what’s possible.