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50 Voices
This year, as part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations, we have launched 50 Voices - a content series that celebrates the people who have made UOW what it is today. From labs to libraries, lawns to lecture theatres, hear unique stories from students, staff, alumni, donors, and community members who have had a lasting impact.
Articles
Alumni
Delivering sustainability
Australia Post isn鈥檛 just about delivering your mail these days. It is also delivering on its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as are many other Australian businesses, big and small.
Philosophical adventures in time and space
An education in the liberal arts, unlike that of a purely technical or scientific kind, seeks to produce graduates who are capable of reflective understanding 鈥� graduates who can stand back and imaginatively evaluate what is required to think well about topics of foundational importance in our lives.
Alumni
True crime wave
Exploring the ethics and boundaries at play in true crime podcasting. 鈥淎 beautiful young girl has lost her life, and she鈥檚 just been treated like a piece of garbage.鈥�
Alumni
Breaking new ground
At 28, Sally Riley left her family home in country New South Wales and headed to the 51茶馆 with the idea of becoming an actor.
Alumni
Realising the power of journalism
On Alice Matthews鈥� very first reporting shift for radio current affairs on ABC, she learnt a valuable lesson as a journalist: the story you think you鈥檙e going to cover, may not be the story you file at the end of the day.
Alumni
The cutting edge of anatomy
As an outdoors country girl growing up in Wagga, Katie Gaskin鈥檚 limited television time would play a pivotal role in moulding her unusual career ambition.