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Physics PhD Student giving new hope to brain cancer sufferers

It kills more children than any other disease but now there's new hope for brain cancer sufferers. University of Wollongong PhD student, Elette Engels, is among... Read More...

Antarctica flight the living laboratory for radiation sensor testing

Researchers board 14-hour flight to collect particle data from upper atmosphere to progress cancer research. A research team from the University of Wollongong ... Read More...

New technology to treat brain tumors

Professor Michael Lerch and Dr Enbang Li from the Centre of Medical Radiation Physics were recently featured on Vox FM and 2ser radio. The devastating impact of cancer is only too well known and the incidence of cancer unfortunately continues to g... Read More...

CMRP honoured at MedPhys 2017

MedPhys17, the annual Student Research Symposium of the NSW/ACT Branch of the Australian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, was held on D... Read More...

PhD student, Elette Engels takes the AIP Postgraduate Excellence Medal

Elette Engels, one of our PhD students from the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), was awarded the 2017 AIP Postgraduate Excellence Medal at the Postg... Read More...

Kenneth Clarke journal prize goes to Student from the school of Physics

CMRP PhD student Sarah Alnaghy from the school of Physics won the Kenneth Clarke journal prize for the best publication in the Australasian Physical Sciences in Medicine (APESM) Journal. This is the most prestigious award that the college presents an... Read More...

November 7: Celebrating Women in Medical Physics

The International Organisation for Medical Physics (IOMP) initiated the International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) on the 7th of November. On this day, we cele... Read More...

Catalina Curceanu visits Bulli High School

Romanian Nuclear Physicist, Dr Catalina Curceanu, has captured the imagination of year nine students at Bulli High in a presentation about the history of the un... Read More...

Results from recent Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences 3MT Competition was held on Tuesday 27 June, 2017 and it is with great pleasure to congratulate the following HDR students: Winner Elette Engels (CMRP/Physics) “Metal oxide nanoparticles for imag... Read More...

Biggest Radiation Oncology Conference in the World

I recently had the chance to attend one of the biggest radiation oncology conferences in the world, ESTRO36 in Vienna, Austria. The conference brings together r... Read More...

Working with CERN on the Monte Carlo code Geant4

Farrington Daniels Award for best paper goes to UOW’s CMRP researchers

Physics at UOW is on top of the world

Brain cancer researcher receives Dr Margaret Gardiner Scholarship