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The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students. To recognise these achievements, an article is published on the UWA news page on the website and in UWA Forward on the first week of every month.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Dental School"},{"title":"Education"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Medical Education"},{"title":"School of Allied Health"},{"title":"School of Population and Global Health"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Innovation"}]},{"title":"New imaging technique reveals bone building at a microscopic level","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/bone-imaging-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/new-imaging-technique-reveals-bone-building-at-a-microscopic-level","publisheddate":"2026-08-21","summary":"
Biomedical scientists have developed a new nanoscale imaging technique that allows researchers to directly see how bone-forming cells use nutrients and build bone inside the body.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Health and biotechnology"},{"title":"School of Biomedical Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Data Connect Australia wins innovation award","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/data-connect-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/data-connect-australia-wins-innovation-award","publisheddate":"2026-08-21","summary":"
Data Connect Australia is among the nation’s leading health and medical researchers, innovators, advocates and philanthropists to be recognised at Research Australia’s Health and Medical Research Awards, winning the Digital and Data Health Innovation Award.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Data Science"},{"title":"Digital"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"New modelling enables safer offshore facility design","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/green-water-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/new-modelling-enables-safer-offshore-facility-design","publisheddate":"2026-08-19","summary":"
Researchers have developed a novel model to accurately and efficiently predict the impact of ‘green water’ – water washing on to the deck of an offshore facility during extreme wave conditions.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Mining Engineering"},{"title":"Regional rural and remote"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Clean energy transition and sustainable resources"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Aboriginal children helping tooth fairy on a mission","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/tooth-fairy-project-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/aboriginal-children-helping-tooth-fairy-on-a-mission","publisheddate":"2026-08-18","summary":"
An innovative sand-animation video created by Aboriginal children from the Goldfields is helping spread the word about a project to identify childhood exposure to heavy metals across remote communities.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health"},{"title":"Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis"},{"title":"Dental School"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Health and biotechnology"},{"title":"Rural Clinical School of WA"},{"title":"School of Human Sciences"},{"title":"School of Earth Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"CorporateHomeFeatured"},{"title":"CorporateHome"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Regional rural and remote"}]},{"title":"Project launch: Australian AI legal safeguards","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ai-law-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/project-launch-australian-ai-legal-safeguards","publisheddate":"2026-08-17","summary":"
A new project that aims to establish a national set of regulations for the effective governance of artificial intelligence systems in Australia will be launched at UWA.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"title":"Data Science"},{"title":"Cyber security"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Frontier technologies"},{"title":"Mathematics"},{"title":"Computer Science"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"}]},{"title":"Discovering science through art exhibition","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/watercolour-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/discovering-science-through-art-exhibition","publisheddate":"2026-08-17","summary":"
An innovative exhibition that aims to present complicated science in a simple-to-understand and artistic way will be hosted by UWA as part of National Science Week.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Current students"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Human Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Our People"}]},{"title":"Talk explores solving the riddle of universe's missing piece","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/dark-matter-talk-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/talk-explores-solving-the-riddle-of-universes-missing-piece","publisheddate":"2026-08-14","summary":"
Did you know a huge part of the universe is missing? Australia’s role in the search for dark matter and what the discovery might mean for our understanding of the world around us will be explored at a public lecture.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"Physics"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Space"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Event explores how AI is reshaping our future","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/gen-ai-event-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/event-explores-how-ai-is-reshaping-our-future","publisheddate":"2026-08-10","summary":"
How generative artificial intelligence is reshaping education, government and law enforcement will be explored at a free public lecture hosted by The University of Western Australia next week.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"title":"Digital"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Tall Poppy researchers celebrated for science impact","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/uwa-aerial_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/august/tall-poppy-researchers-celebrated-for-science-impact","publisheddate":"2026-08-06","summary":"
Five researchers from The University of Western Australia have been named Young Tall Poppies for their work in diverse fields including astrophysics, chemistry, advanced imaging, nutrition and how artificial intelligence influences human behaviour.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"title":"Astronomy and Astrophysics"},{"title":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"title":"Computer Science"},{"title":"Gingin Gravity Precinct"},{"title":"Medical School"},{"title":"Mathematics"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Physics"},{"title":"Health and biotechnology"},{"title":"Clean energy transition and sustainable resources"},{"title":"School of Biomedical Sciences"},{"title":"School of Molecular Sciences"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"Space"}]}]}