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October 2011
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Friday 28 |
It’s the perfect marriage of art and meditation. The ancient art of Chinese calligraphy can strengthen your mental powers through meditation on art and beauty. Learn basics such as posture, brush holding and layout. Explore different styles of calligraphy, including the individual styles of (...)
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Saturday 29 |
Hon. Hina Rabbani Khar Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan will be presenting a lecture on "Pakistan's Role in South Asia."
Hon. Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar is the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan. She is a business woman by profession and hails (...)
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Monday 31 |
9:00 - EVENT - Art Under the Microscope : A showcase of the surprising physical beauty of world class pathology diagnostics and research in WA
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"Art Under the Microscope" will showcase the surprising physical beauty of world class pathology testing and research in WA and is an opportunity to see the majesty and wonder of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Lung Institute of WA - Medical Research Seminar Series : Future Directions in Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
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A/Prof Ros Francis is a Nuclear Medicine Physician in the Department of Nuclear Medicine / WA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Service at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and has an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Molecular Imaging, UWA (School of Medicine and Pharmacology).
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17:00 - LECTURE - Prof Alastair Compston Lectures at ANRI : The world's leading authority on MS research Lecture on Neuromyelitis Optica
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The world's leading authority on MS research, he'd be embarrassed to be called Mr MS, but this would certainly befit the Professor of Neurology and HOD Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge and Editor of Brain. Prof Alastair Compston Lecture is Visiting Professor at Royal Perth Hospital, he is an (...)
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November 2011
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Tuesday 01 |
Dr. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia will be presenting a lecture on “Islamic Art in Western Art Museums: A Century of Displays and Interpretation” in loving memory of Dr. Joan Trevelyan.
The lecture will discuss the history of displays of Islamic art (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
13:00 - EVENT - Raine Lecture - Helen Mayberg, MD, FRCP : Rethinking depression and its treatment: Insights from studies of Deep Brain Stimulation
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Dr Helen Mayberg is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine and holds the Dorothy C Fuqua Chair of Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics.
Dr Mayberg’s laboratory has systematically examined depression pathophysiology in both psychiatric (...)
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Thursday 03 |
17:30 - SCREENING - Film Fundraiser-FOL : Film-Anonymous-$20 Fundraiser for FOL
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Friends of the Library is showing the film 'Anonymous' as a fundraiser event at the Windsor Theatre, Nedlands on Thursday 03 Nov. Tickets are $20 each and include drink and nibbles prior to the movie. Tickets from [email protected] FOL secretary/treasurer
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Friday 04 |
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Revisiting the role of the MCMV-encoded m157 protein in NK cell anti-viral response
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Dr Jerome Coudert, from the Lions Eye Institute, will give a talk on "Revisiting the role of the MCMV-encoded m157 protein in NK cell anti-viral response" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 04 November 2011 at 9:00am. The Ly49H activating NK cell (...)
15:00 - EVENT - Walk Around the Globe for Brain Tumours : Australian Genomics and Clinical Outcomes of Glioma Walk for Awareness
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The Australian Genomics and Clinical Outcomes of Glioma has organsied a 3km walk through King's Park at part of the International Brain Tumour Alliance's Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours.
The walk starts and finishes at the Saw Avenue picnic area, there will be afternoon tea (...)
Bertrand Russell has suggested that learning begins with inarticulate certainty and moves towards articulate doubt. Creative endeavour requires doubt, and failure: studios and workshops open spaces for it, practitioners accept it as an ever-present possibility, a state to embrace, or as the (...)
16:00 - ORATION - 2011 WESFARMERS HARRY PERKINS ORATION : DO OUR CLINICIANS NEED TO BE CLEVERER OR DO WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO BE SMARTER
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Professor Smith is the Vice-President (Research) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Founding Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.
Professor Smith’s address will focus on the changing face of health care and the need for improved integration (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - Grads presents Arthur Miller's All My Sons : Dolphin Theatre November 4 to 12th 2011
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Directed by Barry Park, a compelling family drama about betrayal, guilt and greed - and a terrible secret revealed at the Dolphin Theatre, UWA beginning the 4th of November 2011. Starting at 7.30pm (Sunday 6th November -2pm matinee) Tickets on sale at BOCS at only $25 or $20 concession.
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Saturday 05 |
UWA, with the Australian Mathematical Olympiads Committee, is hosting the 2011 WA Junior Mathematics Olympiad for all bright Year 9 and exceptional Year 8 students. The aim of the competition is to identify the most gifted students in Mathematics, with great prizes on offer for the winners.
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Monday 07 |
8:30 - EVENT - UWA Co-op Bookshop Sale : UWA Co-op Bookshop Book Last Chance Sale
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The Co-op Bookshop Sale finishes Tuesday November 15th.
All Sale Books now 50% off Marked Sale Price. Last chance to grab a bargain from the huge range of gifts, reference books and fiction for summer reading.
Co-op Members receive Member prices on Sale books.
Opening Hours:
8.45am-5.30 (...)
18:30 - PRESENTATION - Engineering Information Evenings : If your passion is to become an engineer, then give yourself a great career start and study engineering at UWA.
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A UWA engineering qualification combines practical and theoretical learning in an exciting and engaging environment that will make you a sought-after graduate, with an internationally recognised education.
To find out more about how to become an engineer, come along to one of our free (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
19:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : A Mania for Manuscripts-Sir Thomas Phillipps world's greatest collection
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Sir Phillipps spent 60 years assembling a vast collection of medieval manuscripts - approx 60,000 items. After his death the collection was broken up and sold.
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Wednesday 09 |
12:00 - SYMPOSIUM - �The Conversation� : Andrew Jaspan, Editor of “The Conversation” will talk about his experiences.
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Launched in March 2011, The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector.
Speaker Bio:
Andrew is a co-founder The Conversation. He previously edited The Age, The Observer (London), The Scotsman and Scotland on (...)
Australia unlike most other parts of the Western world does not have a national comprehensive Human Rights law. However, there have been some
recent developments in case law in Australia, based on a patchwork of Commonwealth and State statutes which indicate that there are at least some protections (...)
19:00 - SEMINAR - Mature-age Information Session : Learn about the various ways that you can gain entry into UWA as a mature-age student.
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Mature-age entry provides flexibility for entering UWA, particularly if you don't have any previous academic results. Anyone who is 20 or over on 1 March of the year of entry qualifies for our mature-age entry pathways. This information session will provide guidance to mature-age students to help (...)
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