What's On at UWA

It is with great pleasure that The University of Western Australia’s Deans of Science, Professors George Stewart and Tony O’Donnell invite West Australian secondary school science teachers to attend a Free science teachers' breakfast event...

"UWA: Linking Schools with Science" (...)

Opera Scenes performed in English from:

Britten's "Albert Herring" Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" Purcell's "The Fairy Queen"

Tickets all $8 and available on 6488 2054, or at the door.

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The School of Biomedical, Biomolecular & Chemical Sciences will host its Biannual Honours Expo on Tuesday 14 October. The Expo will showcase Honours Projects available for the Semester 1, 2009 intake. Prospective Students will have the opportunity to (...)

Professor Joseph Sirgy will describe how people tend to enhance their own feelings of life satisfaction and overall happiness by using psychological strategies that deal with the manipulation of - 1. Relationships between life domains. Examples include bottom-up spillover; top-down spillover; (...)

The world’s most powerful microscope, the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Switzerland, will soon begin to probe the subnuclear frontier. At these distances a new theory is required to explain the shortcomings of our current understanding of particle physics. The two leading candidate theories (...)

Join popular olive specialist Stan Kailis to learn about the enigmatic olive tree in mythology and history as well as its place in horticulture and humanity. Learn how to grow olives, which varieties to plant and how to get the best out of your fruit. Your pressing olive questions will be answered (...)

Opera scenes performed in English from:

Britten's "Albert Herring" Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" Purcell's "The Fairy Queen"

Tickets $12 full, $8 concession, available on 6488 2054 or at the door.

Join us for some interesting philosophical exchange. Things to consider: Consider the kind of evidence and manner you would choose to convey your claim to truth. How would you justify your response to any objections raised? All Welcome for a friendly and open philosophical discussion.

It is worrying to plan for retirement even when one receives a salary from an organisation with structured superannuation. How secure are we at the prospect of old age when we will no longer have the chance to earn our keep and become dependent on a pension, whatever form this may take? Thomas (...)

What constitutes a community; how do people identify themselves as belonging to a community? Does belonging to a community contribute to psychological or indeed physiological health? In Western Australia, have we created communities that will sustain us through this century, or do we need to do (...)

Course Director, Professor Geoff Shellam welcomes all interested people to The University of Western Australia’s Master and Graduate Diploma in Infectious Disease information evening.

The information evening will provide an overview of the academic program for prospective students (...)

The Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 delegated responsibility for all historic shipwrecks of the Western Australian Coast to the Western Australian Museum. Since then, staff from the Museum began monitoring developments with HMAS Sydney II and its adversary the raider HSK Kormoran. They assisted (...)

Where and when did Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, that support life, originate given a run-away greenhouse on Venus but lost oceans on Mercury and Mars?

Our Solar System accreted from a gas and dust rich nebula at 4.57 billion years, or 8 billion years after the Universe emerged.

Speakers Leonie Khoo and Mohamed Al-Mushaiqri will share insights into their home cultures of Malaysia and Oman. Celebrate diversity at UWA in a social setting and learn something too. Food will be provided. All are welcome to attend and there is no charge.

UWA Be With Buddha Society will be conducting a series of "Guided Meditation Sessions" among the tranquil and magnificent Norfolk Pines of Somerville Auditorium. This is an ongoing event which will be conducted fortnightly. The theme will be "True Peace Comes from Within". (NB: (...)

The UWA Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics is hosting a fundraising walk along Cottesloe Beach on Friday 17 October at 2.00pm. The purpose of the walk is to raise awareness of brain tumours and raise funds for The Cancer Council of New South Wales (TCCNSW). TCCNSW supports brain (...)

Australia’s Ambassador to China, Dr Geoff Raby, will provide us with his expertise and insights into a changing China at this critical historical juncture.

Join an enthusiastic group of people who love to sing. Discover (or re-discover) the absolute joy of the sing-along, and give your lungs a good workout! Includes all your favourite songs from the past to present day. No experience necessary. Be prepared to have FUN! Please visit our website to (...)

Professor Morwood is well known for his work on Flores site of Liang Bua and the Homo floresiensis (Hobbit) finds. In this seminar he will present the most recent research on these finds.

Up to twelve Scholarships for Honours, Masters and PhD students at the UWA Business School are available each year, valued from $20,000 up to $153,000.

BHP Billiton operates globally to provide the natural resources essential for the world’s economic and social development, now and into (...)