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Thursday 11 June 2026
UOW celebrates the life of former Vice-Chancellor Ken McKinnon AO
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Children need protection from harmful junk food marketing: report
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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
UOW announces smoke-free campus environments
The University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (UOW) is going smoke-free next month in a move designed to improve the health and wellbeing of all campus users.
Students take to the ocean in search of microscopic monsters
Future marine biologists get up close and personal with microscopic creatures of the deep.
Australia’s only children’s museum turns one
The Early Start Discovery Space will celebrate its first birthday, with the 100,000th visitor expected through the door this weekend.Â
New $3.7M training centre to bring 3D bio-printing to patients
Personalised medicine one step closer with establishment of pioneering biomanufacturing centre that will advance 3D printed medical implants.
‘Living here will make you fat’ – do we need a public health warning?
Men and women living in areas of highest socioeconomic disadvantage have a 29% higher risk of being obese, write Karen Charlton and Abhijeet Ghosh.