What's On at UWA

Team Purple Hearts was established in 2015, a group of Perth women with a passion to make a positive difference against women’s cancers. We took part in the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers™, a 2-day, 60km walk to raise vital funds for the Centre for Women’s Cancer Research.

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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.

Presenter: Prof Brett Hayes

Brett Hayes is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of New South Wales. He is a former Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW, and has held previous appointments at the University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, and honourary appointments (...)

A training workshop for researchers and students who are looking to involve consumers and community members in health and medical research. This workshop is designed to help: • Increase awareness of the value of involvement • Develop understanding and skills on the ‘how and why’ of (...)

Simon Denegri, Patient and Public Involvement Director for the National Institute for Health Research, UK and chair of INVOLVE talks about consumer and community involvement in research and shares his UK perspective. Researchers, students, consumers and community members all invited to this FREE (...)

All are welcome to attend the annual Postgraduate Showcase: Frontiers in Agriculture.

The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research. It highlights relevant research and progress being made in the area of Agriculture and (...)

Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.

The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

One hundred early-caree (...)

The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)WA Branch invites you to share and enjoy the fellowship of the health and medical research community at our annual gala dinner to celebrate ASMR medical research week (MRW®)

Friday 10th June – 6:30pm for 7pm start Ballroom - Duxton (...)

Join this exclusive meet and greet with a specialist Defence Force Recruiter to learn about opportunities within the Health Field over light lunch. Hear and discuss life in the ADF, career opportunities and the recruitment process.

This session is exclusively for UWA students and staff.

The application of small molecules for the modulation of large biomacromolecules has seen much research in the last decades. This includes molecules capable of interfering with phosphate-transfer proteins such as kinases and phosphatases. These proteins have been identified as being of importance (...)

The '7th Wave' reflects the ever changing landscape in Higher Education - every 7th wave is larger than the rest and will bring the biggest learning innovation changes.

The first of the 7th Wave Conference Series is a two-day event exploring opportunities to build on the momentum of (...)

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission offers Scholarships to Australian citizens across all career stages: Postgraduate,Postdoctoral, Professional, Senior Scholars and Distinguished Chairs.

The 2017 Fulbright Scholarships round closes on 1 August 2016. It's not too late to learn (...)

YOU can meet our UniHallers and join us for a free exclusive breakfast and a tour before heading over to UWA Open Day.

This is a great opportunity for you to discover what it’s like to live on campus at UWA. On the day you will meet our UniHall ambassadors who will take you on a tour (...)

Visit UWA from 5 – 9 September for UWA Research Week and imagine what is possible when we showcase UWA research and its impact on local and global communities.

With over 50 events it is a great opportunity for people to come and see the sorts of problems we are working on, the (...)

The “epidemic” of myopia or short-sightedness has grabbed headlines over the last year. There is an increasing rate of myopia in the cities of East Asia, now affecting more than 80 per cent of school leavers.

A higher level of education is a well-defined risk for the development of (...)

UWA Farm Ridgefield and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are hosting a community based festival event to celebrate astronomy and Australian science on Saturday, 17 September 2016. The event will feature fun and engaging activities in a beautiful rural setting, at UWA (...)

Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)

Pluripotent (embryonic) stem cells have long been an elusive target for livestock as they were seen as the exclusive route for effecting precise genome editing. The first generation of cattle and reprogrammed sheep induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from our lab raised exciting possibilities to realise (...)

Robert C Robbins MD is the President and CEO of the Texas Medical Center. This medical center employs over 106,600 staff in 54 institutions including 21 hospitals which take eight million patient visits a year.

Prior to joining the Texas Medical Center, Dr Robbins served as professor and (...)

55th Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) National Scientific Conference

“NEXT-GENERATION HEALTHCARE: MERGING BIOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY”

November 13-15, 2016 – Bond University, Gold Coast

Look beyond disciplinary boundaries and join us at NSC 2016 for (...)