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Welcome to the Media Unit
The UOW Media Unit connects the media in Australia and overseas to the considerable resources of the University of Wollongong, by putting journalists in touch with our experts in a wide variety of specialist fields. We also alert journalists to potential stories with UOW academics, management and students involved in research, teaching and other activities.
The Media Unit is staffed by experienced journalists who also keep the University community and other stakeholders informed through regular news stories on the UOW website, and by producing UOW's quarterly magazine Campus News.
Today's Feature Stories
21 November, 2009
Expertise in focus
Associate Professor Adam Dolnik is an expert on terrorist motivations, ideologies, tactics and strategies, weapons of mass destruction, hostage negotiations andterrorist organisations. He recently wrote an opinion piece about homegrown terror threats, with postgraduate student Sam Mullins
Numbers that count
10 - Years UOW has had five stars in key ratings in the Good Unis Guide
50 000 - Degrees handed out by Chancellor Mike Codd over the last 12 years
100 000 - Number of people that have had a bionic ear implant since 1978
Media Releases
Prostate cancer radiation device poised for commercialisation in United States
Radiadyne of Houston Texas launched at this year’s American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) in Chicago a technologically advanced ‘Prostate Immobilizer Balloon System’ which supports adaptive radiation therapy for prostate cancer patients.
This new device to aid in cancer treatment incorporates sensors developed by researchers at the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), under the directorship of Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld.
UOW maintains its spot in top 2 per cent of world universities
Release of the 2009 World University Rankings has again shown the University of Wollongong to be in the top 2 per cent of the world’s 20,000 universities.