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Friday 18 September 2026
Teacher Education retains Australia’s top undergraduate ranking
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Future Fellowships back UOW research on society’s biggest challenges
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Budding tech gurus put on the learning-to-earning pathway at career day
The Big Day In gave local high school students the chance to explore technology-based careers.
Professor Barry Harper retires after 39 years at UOW
After almost 40 years with UOW, Emeritus Professor Barry Harper – a former Dean of Education and, most recently, Academic Dean of UOW Programmes at INTI International University and Colleges in Malaysia and Pro Vice-Chancellor South East Asia – is retiring.
98 years of historic Illawarra paper now online
ý City Council Libraries in conjunction with the University of ý have now made 98 years of the Illawarra Mercury available online.
Gongfest conference a quantum leap in fundamental maths
When Austrian mathematician Johann Radon came up with a series of calculations in 1917 that would later bear his name, he would have had no idea they would one day be used in everyday medical imaging.
UOW uncovers earliest aerial footage of ý
The University of ý Library has uncovered the earliest known aerial footage of ý, taken from a biplane in 1938.
Broken bodies pay tribute to a bygone craze in 24-hr dance marathon
“One couple, and only one, will waltz out of here over broken bodies, broken dreams, carrying the grand prize of $1500 silver dollars”, cries actor Gigi Young’s character Rocky in the 1969 Sydney Pollack film They shoot horses, don’t they?