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12:00 - EXPO - BBCS HONOURS EXPO 2008 - - School of Biomedical, Biomolecular & Chemical Sciences : EXPO showcasing Honours Projects offered in 2009 by BBCS
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HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED!
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 (...)
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18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - UWA Business School Stan and Jean Perron Visiting Fellow - Professor Joseph Sirgy - PUBLIC LECTURE : The Psychology of Quality of Life
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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 (...)
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19:00 - EVENT - UWA EXTENSION EVENT: ALL ABOUT OLIVES : Join popular olive specialist Stan Kailis to learn about the enigmatic olive tree
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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 (...)
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19:30 - CONCERT - May-King Songs with Fairy Tales : An elegant semi-staging of opera and music theatre excerpts from the Baroque to Broadway given by the outstanding vocal studies students of UWA
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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.
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19:45 - TALK - Friends of the Library talk : Speaking up for the aged: Thomas Hoccleve’s advice to a medieval king in the Regiment of Princes, London c. 1411)
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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 (...)
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