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Tuesday 16 September 2025
iAccelerate wins global award for empowering female entrepreneurs
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International materials science symposium showcases 50 years of UOW innovation
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New home for Illawarra entrepreneurs underway
Construction on the region’s first high-tech business incubator will officially start today (Thursday 10 April) when the Minister for the Illawarra John Ajaka MLC joins 51²è¹Ý Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings to break ground at the Innovation Campus.
Books created by artists on show at UOW Library
An exhibition of artists’ books will be opened at 12.30PM Friday 11 April at the 51²è¹Ý Library’s Panizzi Room.Â
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 51²è¹Ý, 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.
From euthanasia and Nazi analogies to the re-introduction of thalidomide
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?
UOW uncovers earliest aerial footage of 51²è¹Ý
The 51²è¹Ý Library has uncovered the earliest known aerial footage of 51²è¹Ý, taken from a biplane in 1938.
UOW academic identifies flaws in NSW Government’s new one-punch laws
One punch laws won't curb alcohol-related violence, UOW's Dr Julia Quilter says.