What's On at UWA

Commissioned by Perth Festival in 2006, the canvas remains of the most significant collaborative arts projects of recent times and represents a powerful image of the unity of the Noongar nation. The canvas will be hung in the Albany Entertainment Centre for the opening of the 2013 Great Southern (...)

Have you travelled to a developing country and been confronted with the obvious challenges faced by local communities trying to best manage the health & welfare of their people, and realised how fortunate you are living in a western society?

Since the 1970s, motivated by his family (...)

Have you travelled to a developing country and been confronted with the obvious challenges faced by local communities trying to best manage the health and welfare of their people and realised how fortunate you are living in a western society? Since the 1970s, motivated by his family connection with (...)

Public pools play an important part in the Australian way of life. But how well do we understand them? What is their nature? How are they managed? Where does their water come from? This Skywest lecture gathers three specialists who will share their knowledge on public pools and water management (...)

In this lecture, internationally renowned and highly cited plant scientist, Prof Rana Munns, will show how the combination of fundamental plant biology and targeted plant breeding can produce significant outcomes for crop production in saline soils.

Saline soils restrict plant growth in (...)

The science and practice of ecological restoration have depended for several decades on key touchstones such as ecological integrity and historical fidelity to provide moral guidance on appropriate action. The intensification of human-caused environmental and ecological change is giving rise to (...)

One of Albany’s most elegant buildings, the Old Post Office on Stirling Terrace has been used for many purposes in its 144-year life. Now home to the University of Western Australia in Albany, its strong granite walls can tell many tales. Historian Malcolm Traill will take you back to the convict (...)

You hear that insistent message, echoing through the philosophical traditions of East and West: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated. The basic message never alters, whether your moral heritage is Socratic, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, humanistic or anything in between. A (...)

To some, the transformation of Western Australian landscapes as encountered by first European settlers has been so dramatic as to have seen irrevocable alteration, the early countryside effectively lost to modern experience. In many ways this interpretation parallels views about Aboriginal cultures (...)

The Great Southern Science Council, the Western Australian Chief Scientist, the WA Museum (Albany), and the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management are hosting a conference in Albany to showcase the excellent science taking place in the Great Southern region.

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Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.

There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)

There is a deep problem with beauty. Beauty is commonly equated with sexual attractiveness. Yet there is also the beauty of art, which arouses an aesthetic response of disinterested contemplation. As Roger Scruton writes in his recent book, Beauty (2009): “In the realm of art beauty is an object (...)

Come along to discover the range of courses available at UWA Albany. UWA career advisers will be on hand to offer advice on the best course for you point you in the right direction for an exciting and rewarding career. Displays, demonstrations, hands-on activities and campus tour will make this an (...)

This conference explores the possibilities of scientific and technological applications to crop improvement and crop management under drought-prone farming, by linking progress made at the molecular level to that at the whole plant and crop levels in the field. The conference will also provide (...)

The topic of the origin of species in southwest Australia and its global significance will be the focus of the upcoming UWA Albany public lecture on Tuesday October 8 at the Albany Town Hall. Chaired by the UWA's Professor Steve Hopper, the presentation will summarise the deliberations of an (...)

The conference is an initiative of local schools and UWA to provide professional support for staff in the education sector.