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Tuesday 29 April 2025
Six exceptional students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships
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From vinyl to viral: how streaming rewrote Aussie music charts
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Academic investigates how medical history informs today's decisions
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?
Discovery could lead to new drug targets to fight Alzheimer's Disease
In collaboration with researchers at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of Oxford (UK), scientists at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), based at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp, 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.
Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans?
By Professor Alistair McIlgorm.
Library staff volunteer at Illawarra Book Fair
UOW Library staff volunteered their time and skills at the Lifeline Book Fair last month for the third consecutive year.Â
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 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp Library has uncovered the earliest known aerial footage of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵapp, taken from a biplane in 1938.