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Wednesday 15 April 2026
UOW appoints Professor Ana Deletic as Provost
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New project develops smart surfboard fins to help reduce shark attack risk
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Five minutes to claim the big prize in iAccelerate Pitch 2015
Female entrepreneurs are flying the flag for a new breed of innovators in the Illawarra.
Liquid body armour to printed body parts: UOW research ahead of its time
We don鈥檛 yet have a flying car or hoverboards, but UOW is developing a range of new technologies that would make Doc Emmett Brown exclaim 鈥済reat Scott!鈥�
Challenge-led funding for research of global importance
Projects to design smart garments for mining and emergency workers, develop new cancer drugs and create a multi-sensory room for people with disabilities have been awarded funding in the latest round of seed funding from UOW.聽
Engineering students create unmanned search and rescue aircraft
A love of fast cars and powerful engines has led a pair of students to develop a new search and rescue tool.聽
From science fiction to reality: the dawn of the biofabricator
Science is catching up to science fiction, writes medical bionics expert Professor聽Gordon Wallace.聽
Students to showcase innovations for prototyping competition
A 3D printed music record and an unmanned search among innovations to vie for innovation competition.