âSo much deathâ: New uni boss fighting COVID in US says vaccines bringing hope
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When Australian nurse Patricia Davison administers a coronavirus vaccine in her adopted home of Baltimore, a US city hit hard by COVID-19, some patients are in tears. âSome people become really emotional,â she said. âItâs amazingly rewarding.
âThe vaccine has offered a lot of hope. I didnât cry, but when I was lining up to get mine, I had this feeling of, âSo much has happened, and there is a way out of thisâ. Thereâs been so much death. So much suffering.â
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Step one of a masterplan for a health and well-being precinct for Fairy Meadow is now before Wollongong council.
Wollongong University has sent through a Development Application outlining a plan for a 3.5-hectare area located at the southern end of the University’s Innovation Campus.
Announced in 2018, the University’s Health and Wellbeing Precinct aims to combine health research and teaching with patient-centred, multidisciplinary health facilities and independent housing for over 55s.
The Development Application outlines a concept masterplan for Phase 1 including:
• A new large, green open space, situated at the heart of the Precinct and open to the whole community;
Body parts for less than $40 â with an iPhone and 3D printer
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Researchers at Wollongong University are exporting low-cost, portable 3D printers that can make body parts for less than $40 to medical centres in India.
The 3D Genii printer costs between $2000 and $3000, compared with up to $250,000 for a commercial 3D printer. It was developed by engineers at the universityâs Intelligent Polymer Research Institute and at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
Sepidar Sayyar, left, with PhD student Sepehr Talebian. âAt the moment we are making ears but we can make a nose or fingers or even a foot.â Â
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