What's On at UWA

Australia is sometimes portrayed as a dangerous place, bulging with an array of deadly animals. Envenoming syndromes (toxicity due directly to the venom) occur most commonly to snake and redback spider bites on land and a variety of jellyfish in the sea. However the majority of deaths are caused by (...)

Connect your career to the world, enhance your degree and improve employment prospects with postgraduate courses in Integrated Human Studies and Science Communication. Investigate postgraduate educational possibilities with course coordinators Prof Neville Bruce and Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker.

The talk: Energy, Climate and People - The world is running out of cheap oil and gas. If the past is any guide, energy demand is set to increase as the global population both increases and looks for higher living standards. There will be parallel but different pressures on water. The way (...)

Two-Day Media Skills Workshop

9am to 5pm on December 4 & 11, 2009

The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA

Have you ever wondered… What makes a media friendly story? Why doesn’t the story look like the information I provided? Why do I feel at the media’s (...)

A free public lecture by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research (...)

The Science Experience (formerly Siemens Science Experience) is a three-day program of events aimed at high school students about to enter Year 10, and will be held at UWA from the 19th to the 21st of January 2010.

It aims to showcase the courses and facilities available to future (...)