Why mentoring made all the difference

The UOW Mentoring Program continues to unlock the professional power of alumni and student connections.

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Transforming legal minds

How a unique law internship is making a lasting impact on students’ careers

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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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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

A house for all

A people-focused approach to building design will lead to better quality of care for people living with dementia.
Study areas

How fish scales and magnets could mop up oil spills

What started as an off-the-cuff challenge in the laboratory has led to two novel methods of using magnetic forces to control how oil droplets move within other liquids, including water. Research fellow Dr Yi Du, from UOW’s Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), set new PhD student Haifeng Feng a series of tasks to help him familiarise himself with the lab equipment.
Health and Medicine, Science and Technology

Against the odds

 A young village girl from Thailand with a passion for mathematics proved that it doesn't matter where you come from, you can change the world.
General tags, Alumni, Health and Medicine

Quiet healers

These frontline workers might not wear capes, but to many of their patients they are heroes.
Law, Politics and Society

Schoolyard politics on a global scale

The world watches closely as international tribunal rules on the South China Sea
Science and Technology

Finding clues to climate change

UOW scientists are part of a NASA satellite mission to see how the planet breathes.