{"results":[{"title":"Big Day In for students eyeing tech careers","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/uwa-aerial-2025-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/big-day-in-for-students-eyeing-tech-careers","publisheddate":"2026-06-15","summary":"
Top Australian technology and innovation experts will share their wisdom with WA high school students this week as part of an annual event designed to develop the next generation of tech and IT talent.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Media statements"},{"title":"Education"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Industry"},{"title":"Frontier technologies"},{"title":"Health and biotechnology"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"STEM"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Engineering and Technology"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"World-first project to help save endangered Carnaby's Cockatoos","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/c4c-adobe-carnabyscard.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/world-first-project-to-help-save-endangered-carnabys-cockatoos","publisheddate":"2026-06-10","summary":"
More than 200,000 trees will be planted along a 10km stretch of land south of Mandurah as part of an ambitious plan to save Western Australia’s iconic Carnaby’s Cockatoo from extinction.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"UWA School of Agriculture and Environmental Science"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Outstanding Western Australians honoured in King's Birthday list","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/david-blair-2026-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/outstanding-western-australians-honoured-in-kings-birthday-list","publisheddate":"2026-06-08","summary":"
A gravitational wave physicist, former State Treasurer, leading diabetes researcher and glaucoma specialist are among 33 alumni, staff and former staff from UWA recognised in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours list.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Alumni"},{"title":"Staff"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Our People"},{"title":"Our-community"}]},{"title":"Exploring and protecting our blue frontier","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/ocean-day-2026-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/exploring-and-protecting-our-blue-frontier","publisheddate":"2026-06-08","summary":"
World Ocean Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the ocean's extraordinary contribution to our planet and reflect on our responsibility to understand and protect it.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Environment"},{"title":"Oceans Institute"},{"title":"Nature and Science"},{"title":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Science and Environment"}]},{"title":"Supermarkets are going back to the future","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/supermarket-trolley-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/supermarkets-are-going-back-to-the-future","publisheddate":"2026-06-04","summary":"
If AI Agents  plan our meals, order and pay for our groceries and robots pick and pack those orders, it's likely fewer of us will venture into a supermarkets.","sxaTags":[{"title":"UWA Public Policy Institute"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Business-and-law"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Policy-and-opinion"}]},{"title":"Many young carers failing to get support in school","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/sibling-carer-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/many-young-carers-failing-to-get-support-in-school","publisheddate":"2026-06-03","summary":"
Thousands of young carers in Western Australia support family members every day, but many remain invisible and unsupported in schools, according to new report.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"School of Allied Health"},{"title":"Social Work"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Dr Jim Giumelli one of three UWA alumni winners in Western Australian of the Year 2026","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/western-australian-of-the-year-2026-source-celebrate-wa.png","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/dr-jim-giumelli-one-of-three-uwa-alumni-winners-in-western-australian-of-the-year-2026","publisheddate":"2026-06-03","summary":"
UWA Engineering graduate and Honorary Doctorate recipient, Dr Jim Giumelli (BE '69, DEng '17), has been named 2026 Western Australian of the Year for his visionary civil construction career and youth mentorship. It was a big night for UWA’s community, with three winners from a pool of eight alumni nominees in this year’s awards.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Alumni"},{"title":"Engineering"},{"title":"Philanthropy"},{"title":"Awards and Achievements"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Philanthropy"}]},{"title":"Complex history of 'pride', from shame and sin to symbol of protest and power","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/pride-march-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/complex-history-of-pride-from-shame-and-sin-to-symbol-of-protest-and-power","publisheddate":"2026-06-02","summary":"
Pride is primarily a social emotion. It is about position, confidence, and power. This is why, for the LGBTQIA+ community, collective pride is adopted as the primary emotion to fuel unity and belonging.","sxaTags":[{"title":"School of Humanities"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"}]},{"title":"New partnership to transform healthcare in Vietnam","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/marshall-vinmec-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/new-partnership-to-transform-healthcare-in-vietnam","publisheddate":"2026-05-29","summary":"
A strategic partnership between The University of Western Australia's Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training and VinMec Healthcare System is set to transform how gastric cancer is detected and prevented across Vietnam. ","sxaTags":[{"title":"Global Engagement"},{"title":"Global Partnerships Office"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"International"},{"title":"Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"International relations"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Learning-and-teaching"}]},{"title":"Funding boost to strengthen linked health data nationwide","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/phrn-funding-card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/may/funding-boost-to-strengthen-linked-health-data-nationwide","publisheddate":"2026-05-29","summary":"
The Population Health Research Network at UWA will receive an additional $11.88 million through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Data Science"},{"title":"Digital"},{"title":"Health"},{"title":"Innovation"},{"title":"Research category"},{"title":"Home Page"},{"title":"Health-and-Medicine"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]}]}