We bring to life subjects that illustrate the impact our students, teaching, research and graduates make in the world.
The Stand exists to unlock the knowledge and expertise inside the 51²è¹Ý (UOW), telling stories about our people and their accomplishments that inform, educate and inspire. This magazine was born out of a renewed sense of place, purpose and values that will guide the University in fulfilling its role in exploring how to resolve society’s large and complex social, environmental and economic challenges.
We believe education is one of the most powerful transformative forces on communities and individuals. It opens minds and helps people find purpose, meaning – and solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.
This is our unified story – a story that draws on our past, understands the present, and looks to the future.
Articles
Environment and Energy
Understanding environmental stressors for the Great Barrier Reef
With the future of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef under threat, a newly funded three-year project will expand our understanding of the drivers and context of recent mass coral bleaching on the reef.
Environment and Energy
The three of us: Pauline McGuirk, Gordon Waitt & Hilton Penfold
The 51²è¹Ý (UOW) has so many high achieving PhD students, working towards solving real world problems. Behind every great PhD candidate is a great supervisor (or two). We hear from both to understand their perspective of the postgraduate journey.
Environment and Energy
Shaping a sunburnt country
Fire has shaped the Australian landscape, biodiversity and resources for millennia and in south-eastern Australia, it is the dominant ecological disturbance and a prominent natural hazard.
Environment and Energy
Measuring the health of Antarctica’s ecosystems
Researchers have been granted more than half-a-million-dollars by the Australian Research Council to investigate the cause and consequences of apparent changes to environmental ecosystems in East Antarctica. The funding ($505,000) was awarded through the ARC’s Discovery Projects scheme.
Environment and Energy
Coastal landscape evolution
Researchers will use innovative modelling techniques to document and date the nature and implications of the historic environmental changes that shaped Australia’s modern coastal landscapes thanks to a $391,000 Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant.
Health and Medicine
Solving Schizophrenia
Distinguished Professor Xu-Feng Huang is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow who received a 2019 NHMRC Investigator grant for schizophrenia research. With 252 scholarly publications under his belt, which have been cited over 12,955 times by scientists in over 93 countries*, he is considered a world expert.