What's On at UWA

A special seminar to be held on Friday 1st April, 1 – 2pm in the Jennifer Arnold Lecture Theatre, Ground floor, Zoology Building (South).

Dr Robert James will speak on “Community-Based Development and its Application to Marine Turtle Conservation in Drake Bay, Peninsula de Osa, Costa (...)

The Travelling Scientist accompanies the SPICE team when they visit regional schools. The Travelling Scientist, a young PhD student, talks to students about their journey in science.

In this 40th anniversary of the first Bayliss Youth Lecture, Professor Allan McKinley, from the University of Western Australia, and Dr Jeff Davis, an Industrial chemist, will discuss some of the major ways chemistry has improved our lifestyle and standard of living. These chemical advances will be (...)

The School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health is hosting a visit by Professor Gareth Stratton the 2011 Healthway Visiting Fellow. Professor Stratton will be presenting a lecture entitled "From Fitness to Fatness and Back Again". This presentation maps out decreases in childhood (...)

Karen Campbell is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research (C-PAN) at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. With a background in dietetics and health promotion, Dr Campbell undertook her Masters in Public Health and then a PhD which focused on home (...)

To Cre or not to Cre? > A SymbioticA Friday Seminar Date: 15th April; Speaker: Dr Rob James; Time & Location: 3:30 - 5:00pm @ SymbioticA

Molecular solutions to ethical obstacles precluding human enhancement through genetic engineering.

Emerging biotechnologies promise (...)

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is offering WA secondary school students the chance to take part in a wide range of hands-on activities that will be interactive, fun and very rewarding.

Students will have the opportunity to*: • Observe a sun spot through a (...)

Media artist Anne Niemetz (Victoria University Wellington) and cell biophysicist Andrew Pelling (University of Ottawa) will speak about their past projects and present experiments in the art-science realm. They first met in 2003 in Los Angeles, where they created “The Dark Side of the Cell”, an (...)

Applications open for the Science Experience 2012. Current year 9 and 10 students apply on-line at the Science Experience website.

The Science Experience is a three day program of events for students about to enter Year 10 and Year 11. The program is designed to excite students about (...)

Closing date for applications for current year 11 students for the National Youth Science Forum 2012.

The National Youth Science Forum is a two weeks in January program of events for students about to enter Year 12 and who are considering going on to a tertiary education in the sciences (...)

The Travelling Scientist accompanies the SPICE team when they visit regional schools. The Travelling Scientist, a young PhD student, talks to students about their journey in science.

The SPICE team visits schools or district offices and offers professional development to secondary science teachers.

‘A day in the life of an environmental science student’ gives WA secondary school students the opportunity to find out what studies in this field would be like at UWA.

Students will take part in a variety of workshops and demonstrations throughout the day that are designed to give (...)

Composing Catastrophe: Robert Polidori’s Photographs in “After the Flood” and Comparative Visual Records of Post-Katrina New Orleans.

The form of cities, their design, and construction have long made it possible to think about human society, its representation and values. Likewise (...)

The word educate is derived from educare (Latin), meaning to draw out, to bring out potential. Educational systems, the world over, are based on thrusting knowledge onto students, instead of drawing it out of them. As a result, students become well informed on one or more subjects. Such education (...)

Intelligence is acquired knowledge of a particular subject or subjects. But being knowledgeable in no way renders your intellect clear to think, reason and decide on matters pertaining to life. A person could be highly intelligent, yet impractical in day to day living. For example, a scientist may (...)

Cat Hope is the artistic director of Decibel, a new music ensemble based in Perth, Western Australia devoted to performing works that explore the nexus of acoustic and electronic instruments. Pioneering unique electronic score formats and giving electronic music instruments a voice in the acoustic (...)

The Travelling Scientist accompanies the SPICE team when they visit regional schools. The Travelling Scientist, a young PhD student, talks to students about their journey in science.

The SPICE team visits schools or district offices and offers professional development to secondary science teachers.