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

Environment and Energy

How microplastics are impacting our precious plankton

Researching plankton might not seem like the most interesting organisms to study in the ocean.

Education

Vice-Chancellor bids farewell to UOW

Vice-Chancellor proud of University’s immense success in research, teaching, and business partnerships

Business and Economy

How COVID-19 changed transport

Few areas were more dramatically affected by COVID-19 than public transport. How can we do it better next time? And who have been the winners, and the losers?
Health and Medicine

The vape divide

Will banning nicotine-containing vape fluid do more harm than good? University of Wollongong toxicologist Dr Jody Morgan believes it will.
Environment and Energy

Helping oyster farmers to weather environmental challenges

It’s been a crazy twelve months for Batemans Bay oyster farmer Ewan McAsh. This time last year he was fighting bushfire flames at the front door of his oyster farm office and storage sheds.

Arts and Culture

Students sing away the COVID blues

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Australia, student Kaitlin Lawler’s final year was thrown into peril.