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UOW Pulse/Latest News (Page 3)

Latest News

July 7, 2021

Indigenous artist Jordan Taunton overcomes adversity

In honour of NAIDOC week 2021, we spoke with 20-year-old indigenous artist Jordan Taunton, from the South Coast of Nowra. Early last month, Jordan was one of 6 feature artists to attended Live Art Week where she painted and brought the campus to life with her amazing traditional piece of aboriginal art, which now sits proudly at her place. Jordan's story is unique, to say the least, and she has overcome a lot of adversity to...

June 30, 2021

Pulse recognised withTAG 7 awards

The annual Tertiary Access Group CampusLink Awards were celebrated last week to acknowledge the best in student services.    Awarding leadership, engagement, outstanding initiatives, marketing, student services and programs, staff development and more - the awards highlight all aspects of excellence and success in the Australian and New Zealand tertiary student services sector.    Pulse is proud to have won five awards and received two highly commended awards, recognising our incredible clubs, volunteer, training program and innovations.    Our Winners   National...

June 4, 2021

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Last week the Pulse team held a picnic on campus to celebrate the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, with students and staff enjoying live music, raffles and of course tea, coffee and sweet treats.  It was a great morning and so nice to see so many people supporting such a great cause. Our Pulse volunteers were also out and about on campus collecting donations to help towards our goal of $250. Thank you to everyone who donated,...

May 24, 2021

Food Allergy Awareness Week 23 – 29 May

Food Allergy Awareness Week kicks today and Kids' Uni children’s services centres are leading the way in allergy awareness and are offering the life-saving program Food Allergy SMART to their children this week.  The program talks about the importance of not sharing food with their friends, washing hands before and after mealtimes, and how important it is to tell a teacher or adult when a friend is having an allergic reaction and being aware...

May 20, 2021

NEW CAFÉ, YOGABAR OPENS AT UNIACTIVE

We are excited to welcome Yogabar to UniActive in Building 13.  Owner George, who also runs Ugly Duckling  and his team are looking forward to bringing a new cafe experience to campus. Yogabar offers a range of food and drinks options including vegan, dairy and gluten free, Toby’s Estate coffee made by experienced baristas, delicious smoothies and smoothie bowls, fresh Yogabar signature salads, customisable nutritious meals as well as all day breakfast pots, raw treats,...

May 11, 2021

LIVE ART WEEK 2021 BRINGS CAMPUS TO LIFE

Live Art Week was back on campus last week and it was great to bring the campus to life once again with live art installations, workshops, music and stalls. Our 6 amazing artists created some breathtaking artworks over the 3 days including Mulga artist Joel, Ayjay Art, Samuel Hall, Jedd Iquib and local indigenous artists Zachary from Saltwater Dreamtime, Rob Naylor and Jordon Taunton. Our workshops attracted loads of students who enjoyed making jewellery, lino art,...

May 4, 2021

IGA Drawing Competition Winners Announced

The window of IGA was bright and colourful last week with over 38 entries received in the drawing competition to celebrate Live Art Week. Our budding artists from Kids’ Uni and Kids’ Uni Early Intervention drew what “Healthy and Fresh” meant to them and it was great to see so many pictures of fruit and vegetables. The team at Kids’ Uni took the kids through a session on healthy eating and the different kinds of healthy...

April 29, 2021

2021 UniSport Nationals Athletics

Sport is back at UOW and great results coming through last week from the UniSport Nationals Athletics meet in Homebush. UOW had a small team of 6 competing who came away with a swag of medals and fantastic results:   Tierney Dunne: Gold Women’s 200m and Silver Women’s 100m Karlee Symonds: Gold Women’s T11 100m Rosie Tozer: Bronze Women’s High Jump Kiahna Soroka: 5th Women’s Hammer throw,  7th Discus and 5th Shot Put Andrew Goshnik: Silver Men’s 200m and 4th...

April 22, 2021

2021 UniSport Nationals

After the cancellation of the 2020 UniSport Nationals due to COVID-19, UniActive is excited to be taking part in the 2021 UniSport Nationals. The Nationals will run from 25 September to 1 October on the Gold Coast and attracts over 7,500 participants from Australia’s 43 universities. Trials have commenced at UniActive for athletes to form a number of teams across a range of sports including Soccer, Rugby 7's, T20 Cricket, Basketball, Cheerleading, Volleyball and much...

March 18, 2021

Clubs Day 2021

It was exciting to have over 78 clubs and societies showcase what they do at Clubs Day last week on campus. From cosplay to e-sports, dancing and physics it was great to see so many club members out and about talking to students about what they do and how to get involved. Clubs and Societies are a great way to meet new friends, connect with people who have similar interests, strengthen your resume and most importantly...