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April 2012
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Tuesday 10 |
Quit Smoking Successfully! The Robin Winkler Clinic at The University of Western Australia will be conducting a smoking cessation treatment program commencing on Tuesday 10 April 2012. The group will meet for ten consecutive weeks, with a follow-up session four weeks after completion. Sessions are (...)
20:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Friends of the Library Speaker : A Tale of Two Theatres
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The London season of 1774 with its mounting competition between two Royal theatres: Drury Lane and Haymarket. This presentation looks at how, not only the season, but also the music can impact upon the rivalry.
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Wednesday 11 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Integrated surface water and groundwater modelling to support the Murray Drainage and Water Management Plan, south-west Western Australia
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The Murray region in south-west Western Australia is characterised by a high water-table, sandy soils, wetlands of significance, and an extensive agricultural drainage system to relieve water-logging in winter months. Urban growth pressures in the region have led to the requirement of a Drainage (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - The Stars are Getting Closer: the European Extremely Large Telescope
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A public lecture by Dr Joe Liske, staff astronomer, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany.
403 years after Galileo Galilei first pointed a telescope at the night sky European astronomers are set to build the largest optical telescope ever in the Chilean Atacama desert: with a (...)
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Thursday 12 |
The Centre for Social Impact (UWA), together with the Department for Communities, is delighted to present a public lecture with Dr Alex Nicholls. Dr Nicholls, one of the world’s leading thinkers in social enterprise and innovation, will share his insights on 'Social Entrepreneurship: Context and (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Repeat Lecture - The sexualisation of girls and the digital age: navigating the debates, averting moral panics and responding to another challenge for gender equality : The 2012 Grace Vaughan Lecture
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Speaker: Donna Chung, Winthrop Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, The University of Western Australia.
In the last decade there has been increasing concern by a cross section of the community about what has been termed the sexualisation and ‘pornifcation’ of children (...)
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Friday 13 |
Australian-born pianist Cameron Roberts is recognised as an artist of great distinction and originality. He performs in Australia, England, and Spain as soloist and chamber musician whilst gaining growing success as a composer and arranger. Roberts opens the Keyed Up! season with a performance of (...)
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Wednesday 18 |
8:30 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of an Arts Student : Experience a typical day in the life of a UWA Arts Student
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*Applications have now closed* Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be an Arts student at UWA? "A Day in the Life of an Arts Student" gives year 11 and 12 students the opportunity to explore the different types of Arts majors currently available at UWA.
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents: : Building Global Resilience: Recognizing There Is A Next Generation.
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This talk is about the importance and suggestions for building global resilience for the benefits of our next generation and us. The content is effectively addressing the four focuses summarized below,
The History of life: 5 Million years of building the DNA inventory
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Thursday 19 |
8:30 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of an Environmental Science Student : Experience a typical day in the life of a UWA Environmental Science Student
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*Applications have now closed*
Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be an Environmental Science student at UWA?
"A Day in the Life of an Environmental Science Student" gives WA secondary students the opportunity to discover what studies in this field would (...)
18:00 - PRESENTATION - Mature-age Entry Information Evening 19 April 2012 : Find out about UWA's Mature-age entry pathways
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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-a (...)
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Friday 20 |
8:30 - EVENT - A Day in the Life of a Music Student : Experience a typical day in the life of a UWA Music Student
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Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Music student at UWA?
"A Day in the Life of a Music Student" is a great opportunity for you to discover what a typical day at university is like.
The School of Music is offering WA secondary school students the (...)
9:00 - SEMINAR - Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Is Clostridium difficile infection part of a zoonosis?
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Professor Thomas Riley will give a talk entitled "Is Clostridium difficile infection part of a zoonosis?" in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 20 April 2012 at 9:00am.
15:00 - EVENT - Adaptation and Visual experience : Psychology Colloquium Open to Public- review of Studies exploring Adaptation and Visual experience
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Saturday 21 |
14:00 - GUIDED TOUR - UWA Historical Society, Crawley Park Walk : Explore the history of the Crawley Park House and site
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Crawley Park House (now known as Shenton House) is significant as a rare surviving Colonial house dating from 1846 and as the initial element of the fabric of the University of Western Australia Crawley Campus in 1914.
The place is historically and socially significant for its origins (...)
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Thursday 26 |
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Masterclass: Endoscopic optical imaging technologies : Integrating endoscopic confocal and OCT imaging technologies into biomedical research
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The focus of this IAS Masterclass will be on advances in instrumentation for biomedical optical imaging. We will see how improvements in fibre optics, wavelength-swept lasers and miniature optical components improve the resolution, acquisition speed and signal to noise ratio of single fibre (...)
Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Moral Pragmatism:Thin Universals and Thick Practices : Second in the 2012 series of the Three Universities Lectures
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Given there is no consensus, in the history of philosophy or theology, about how a rational agent ought to solve complex moral dilemmas, Dr. Matthews will advocate that the thick theoretical differences that separate us are not as significant as the thin universals that unite us as rational moral (...)
A public lecture by Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck College and 2012 UWA Fred Alexander Fellow.
War is atrocious. In this this talk, Professor Joanna Bourke will explore the changing ways in which stories of murderous violence in wartime been told, reflecting on the terror (...)
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