What's On at UWA

South Western Australia supports a unique freshwater fish fauna including a high proportion of species that are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these are showing declines in distribution and abundance due to a variety of environmental and human influences including habitat destruction (...)

Between 1939 and 1941 middle-aged housewife Leonarda Cianciulli killed three women in the small northern Italian town of Correggio. She - or so goes the legend - boiled the bodies into saop and made teacakes with their coagulated blood. Was Cianciulli simply mad, a deranged woman who regarded her (...)

Honeybees and their pollination services are important for the production of about a third of what we eat. However, massive losses of bees have been reported globally over the last decade. In some regions where bees have now been entirely lost, trees now need to be pollinated by hand. He will (...)

In this public lecture Professor Peter Eastwood, Head of the Centre for Sleep Science at UWA, will discuss the causes of sleep apnoea and its current treatments. He will talk about the cause of sleep apnoea, and in particular the importance of the structures of the face, head and neck.

Our Science Experience event is now open for registration!

UWA/ConocoPhillips Science/Engineering Experience - 19-21 January 2016!

Budding scientists/engineers in Years 9/10 (this year) are welcomed to UWA’s campus for three days of fun and to fuel their passion for science (...)

Lake Seppings is a vital wetland for Albany. It is the place of the 'tjuirtgellong': the long-neck turtle. The area is significant as a resting and nesting place for birdlife. Join Dr Leah Beesley and Geraldine Janicke for an informative presentation. The event commences with a birdwalk at 8am (...)

Over the last decades, the world has discussed the continuing use of our limited natural resources and the production of waste and contaminating materials. Some alarming figures show that our lifestyles are not sustainable and that some changes need to be made. This is particularly relevant to the (...)

Chaired by Professor Stephen D. Hopper AC from UWA’s Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management (CENRM), the inaugural Great Southern International Colloquium on Biodiversity will focus on global advances in understanding of granite outcrop organisms, including their relationships with (...)

Get close up and personal with the granite rock environment and all its secrets during this unique event. Professor Stephen Hopper and a team of international experts will lead a stimulating and inclusive excursion to local granite outcrops. They will share their knowledge and expertise in a (...)

Join Friends of UWA Albany for an entertaining public lecture with the West Australian Ballet. Starting from the beginnings of ballet as an art form, to the history and people of West Australian Ballet, and through to the processes of putting on a production such as Five by Night, showing at the (...)

The democratic system touches our everyday lives. In our current democracy what is the role of political parties? How can the democratic system be reformed to make it more effective? Come and enjoy afternoon tea and explore this topic.

Professor Lydon will review the history of collecting Australian Aboriginal photographs and discuss the many ways that Aboriginal people are now using them. Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous (...)

J.R.R. Tolkien has been called ‘the author of the century’ — an indication of the enormous popularity of The Lord of the Rings but also a reference to the ways in which his fantasies translate the traumas of the twentieth century. He has also been called a fascist. This lecture will (...)

Being psychologically or spiritually unable to accept the kind of distortions found in Egypt, the Greek figures retained a correct size regardless of the status of that figure Different masters had their individual ideas about what this canon was and even though flexible, it was still codified in a (...)

A nurse, midwife and medical warrior, Anne Carey has spent her life helping others – even when it has been at great personal risk. Volunteering in some of the world’s hotspots, including Darfur, Papua New Guinea and most recently Sierra Leone, where she spent three assignments battling on the (...)

Are you a student or a parent of a student in Years 9-12? Are you taking a gap year this year or planning on taking a gap year next year? Just want more information on study options at UWA Albany? Just want some advice? Then come along to the information evening to have all your questions answered (...)

The UWA Albany Science Communications class is hosting an exciting Upcycling event on the Wednesday 31st May, commencing at 3.30pm. The forum is intended for environmentally interested children and adults. There will be presentations, displays, craft stalls and games - all intended to stimulate (...)

Einstein’s gravitational waves have been directly detected, one century after his original prediction. The waves are ripples of space and time that travel through empty space at the speed of light. The discovery, which was heard as a brief chirp, confirms our ability to obtain new understanding (...)

Ensemble Vagabond represents Australia’s newest chamber music ensemble of national profile, performing at the highest international level. As an ensemble-in-residence at the University of Western Australia School of Music, Ensemble Vagabond delivers a vibrant artistic program encompassing (...)

Eucalyptus. The name is thoroughly European, a product of the Enlightenment and age of global exploration. The plant is antipodean in origin, predominantly Australian. It is found in many countries today via human agency for commercial or aesthetic purposes. This lecture, based on a book in (...)