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Bottlenose dolphins are one of very few species that use vocal learning to develop their own unique vocal signature early in life. Many animals may encode identity in a signal through general voice features, but each bottlenose dolphin produces one stereotyped whistle type, called a signature (...)

The next meeting of the Faculty of Science, Women in Science group will be a morning tea. All are welcome.

The morning tea is a great opportunity to network with other scientists in an informal setting. We will be discussing the implementation of the Faculty of Science mentoring (...)

Find out what opportunities are available in management consulting. Six firms will present over 2 days. This is your chance to meet and network with employers.

Presentation/Networking (Mon 22 February):

9.00am-10.30am: McKinsey and Company

10.30am-12.00pm: Bain (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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"Rites of Passage" Seminar

The Seminar: The gibbons and siamangs (family Hylobatidae) are renowned for their unusual social organisation (social monogamy) and were once thought to (...)

Seminar is scheduled for Monday 29 Feb at 4pm

The Seminar: The gibbons and siamangs (family Hylobatidae) are renowned for their unusual social organisation (social monogamy) and were once thought to be inflexible in their social behaviour; however, hylobatids share many characteristics (...)

"Rites of Passage" Seminar

The Seminar: : In an effect known as the attentional filter, quiet tones that are presented in background noise are more detectable if they are presented at frequently occurring expected frequencies over rarely occurring unexpected frequencies (...)

Please join us to hear about the 2016/2017 Raine Medical Research Foundation funding programmes including Grants, Fellowships, Research Collaboration Awards, Visiting Professor Awards and Publication Prizes.

The Raine Foundation has allocated in excess of $36m for medical research since (...)

You are invited to join many of Australia's leading organisations at the year’s most important free careers event – The Big Meet.

Whether you're looking for graduate employment, a new job, vacation work, an international internship, a gap-year experience, voluntary work, travel (...)

The Seminar: Primates live in diverse social organizations that differ markedly in their sizes and composition. Primates also vary substantially in the degree to which they express sexual dimorphism in body mass and secondary sexual traits (ornaments). In this seminar I explore the evolutionary (...)

The cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal and Africa’s most endangered big cat. Cheetah numbers have declined from around 100,000 in 1900 to fewer than 7,000 today due to habitat loss, decline of prey, and conflict with livestock farming. Historically, cheetahs have a small gene pool (...)

The analysis of thin films introduces numerous unique complexities compared to bulk materials. A thorough knowledge of thin film XRD enables researchers to gain a detailed understanding of their structure and composition and hence, arms them with the knowledge to better predict their in-service (...)

Research has tended to focus on the top-down cognitive-biases that drive cultural evolution, with little consideration of bottom-up social interactional processes. In this talk I’ll present evidence (experimental & computational) that cognitive-biases plus social interaction are critical to (...)

Your application is a powerful marketing tool that can gain an employer's interest. This session hosted by Goldman Sachs will talk through ideas for your application that will sit you on top of the pile.

RSVP - CareerHub - http://uwa.careerhub.com.au

The bottom-up approach is considered a potential alternative for the low cost manufacturing of nanostructured materials. It is based on the concept of self-assembly of nanostructures on a substrate, and is emerging as an alternative paradigm for traditional top down fabrication used in the (...)

Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

Jaya Matthews: Socioecology of eastern chimpanzees in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda: Assessing the impact of food availability on grouping patterns

Group-living provides many individual benefits but inevitably there are associated costs, principally surrounding competition for shared (...)

The Seminar: Imagine a technique that requires minimal or no sample preparation and allows you to explore the internal structure of your sample down to the micrometre scale without the need for a single cut. This can be achieved using X-ray microscopy (XRM), which, as for medical CAT scanners (...)

In this public lecture, editor of 2014 book The Art and Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders, Dr Michel Meuret shares experience and scientific knowlegde about herding animals and optimising rangeland resources. He describes the essence of the engagement he has had with (...)

The Seminar: The contractile capacity of airway smooth muscle (ASM) is labile and an abundant literature reports that a great diversity of inflammatory mediators increases its contractile capacity. This acquired hypercontractility is allegedly implicated in the variable component of airway (...)

Last year the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) launched a red chilli futures contract as a way for farmers and other market participants to manage their risks in this volatile commodity which is of such significance for the rural economy of parts of Pakistan. Why did it do so, what will its (...)