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Friday 4 July 2025
Oldest wooden artefacts ever found in East Asia reveal plant-based diet of ancient humans
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A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students
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UOW congratulates its Queen’s Birthday Award recipients
51²è¹Ý (UOW) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings CBE, today congratulated four associates whose service was recognised in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
UOW welcomes new Dean of Medicine
The 51²è¹Ý (UOW) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Nicholas Zwar as its new Dean of Medicine.
Innovative children’s book boosts executive functioning
As an alternative to expensive and time consuming computerised ‘brain-training’ activities, UOW researchers have developed a children’s book that boosts early executive functions.  Â
Equipping students with the skills needed to manage dementia
Pilot project to help the next generation of professionals tackle the growing issue of dementia in Australia. Â Â
UOW announces smoke-free campus environments
The 51²è¹Ý (UOW) is going smoke-free next month in a move designed to improve the health and wellbeing of all campus users.