Carmela Pain’s innate curiosity led her across the ocean. At UOW College, she found the environment she needed to unlock her true academic potential, find her purpose and chart her course toward a bright future.
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Carmela Pain’s innate curiosity led her across the ocean. At UOW College, she found the environment she needed to unlock her true academic potential, find her purpose and chart her course toward a bright future.
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Embracing physical fitness transformed Jordan Bourke’s health and future. Now, the UOW College fitness graduate has made it his mission to make a healthier, stronger life accessible to all.
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Around 300 Australian native species rely on tree hollows for breeding or shelter. It takes an average of 100 years for hollows to form naturally, and with many older trees lost to land clearing and bushfire, timber nesting boxes have long been the go-to, though imperfect, solution.
Charles Sturt graduate Mick Callan knew there had to be a better way.
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Chris Hammer spent three decades as a leading political and foreign correspondent before bursting onto the global crime fiction scene with an instant bestseller in 2019. And it all began at Mitchell College.
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Power generation is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, placing it squarely at the heart of the global renewable energy transition. But there’s a new player on the scene, putting retired mineshafts to work for our green energy future.
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In our rapidly changing climate, last summer’s fires are unlikely to be a one-off event. The future health of people and the environment hinges on better understanding and managing the risks. That’s where the incredible minds behind the NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub come in.
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Meet Charles Sturt University’s outstanding 2024 Alumni Award winners and discover the remarkable contributions they are making to their communities and professions, in our regions and around the world.
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As one of Australia’s foremost digital transformation experts at the peak of a 30-year career in purpose-led digital innovation, Lynn Warneke is deeply committed to advancing technology as a force for good in the world.
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A trailblazer in reviving and teaching First Nations languages, Aunty Elizabeth Wright is transforming communities through connection to culture. As TAFE NSW’s first teacher of Aboriginal Languages and Culture, her Wiradjuri studies at Charles Sturt have helped shape the vibrant legacy of language and culture she is creating.
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Jody Unterrheiner was working in London as a journalist when a visit to the Northern Ugandan city of Gulu irrevocably shifted her path – and with it, the futures of generations to come.
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Meet the synthetic biology startup on the frontlines of a deep tech revolution, producing sustainable and carbon-negative hydrogen fuel from renewable agricultural waste biomass.
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Annette Ruhotas AM has always been driven to mobilise humanity for the betterment of society. The respected social sustainability expert, board director, and Deputy President of the Australian Red Cross is a passionate and powerful catalyst for positive social change.
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For many, the word algae conjures up images of green slime taking over their fish tank or backyard water feature. But relatively few are aware that this prolific microorganism offers a compelling solution to our planet’s resource exhaustion challenges.
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As experts warn of more frequent and devastating bushfires to come, building greater community resilience to bushfires – through more effective preparation, recovery and rebuild – is vital. Senior Professor Paul Cooper is leading a multidisciplinary team of top UOW researchers on a unique project to holistically explore these issues and map a path forward.
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The best intentions on entering politics often get swallowed up in the game. But for Jihad Dib MP – NSW Member for Lakemba and Shadow Minister for Emergency Services and Energy and Climate Change – his motivation is the same as it has always been: to change lives for the better.
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With its stunning beaches and surf breaks, the Illawarra is renowned for producing talented professional surfers. But for every young athlete that makes it on the competition circuit, countless others don’t – so it’s crucial to prepare for alternate futures.
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On paper, Dr Romina Santos Reyftmann may look like your typical high achiever: years of study in medicine and law, helping establish a successful fertility clinic with one of Australia’s leading IVF teams, and extensive high-impact work in First Nations justice and human rights law. But you don’t have to dig deeply to see that every success has been hard-won.
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For Amanda Essery, Founder and CEO of award-winning premium Australian lifestyle brand Lovekins, creating a business around loving care for people and the planet was like coming home.
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