What's On at UWA

As part of SolarisCare Foundation's 10th Anniversary a play by Alan Hopgood in conjunction with Molly Carlile will be performed at UWA Octagon Theatre.

We invite you to join us for this final lecture by Kevin Goss in his role as head of Future Farm Industries CRC.

This public address is a reflection on the wicked, unintended consequences that can arise from rapid economic development, the high cost of government policy inertia to deal (...)

Applications close for current year 9 and 10 students who want to attend the Science Experience 2012. Apply 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 (...)

Science Investigation Awards

Student interviews

The Postgraduate and Honours Expo showcases a host of opportunities for further study, including honours and postgraduate coursework and research possibilities.

Discover the courses each faculty has to offer, learn about postgraduate scholarships, attend information sessions and talk to (...)

Friday talk with SymbioticA resident artist Amy Congdon Date: 7 Oct 2011 Time: 3:30pm Venue: SymbioticA HQ Speaker: Amy Congdon

Current resident Amy Congdon will be talking about a selection of her previous projects and research interests. As well as this she will be reflecting on her (...)

It’s been nearly two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope began giving us its awe inspiring view of the cosmos. The images it has sent back to Earth have revolutionised astrophysics and inspired people all over the globe, both in terms of scientific understanding and pure artistic beauty.
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Meaningful encounters with artefacts in museums have always generated thinking about difference. In this context the term ‘difference’ ranges from an encounter with something unfamiliar and therefore strange to the philosophical notion of difference as singularity, that is, of difference without (...)

The Science and Engineering Challenge is a competition for year 9 high school students which aims to present science and engineering in an inspirational manner, excite the imagination of prospective students and provoke their interest through a variety of well designed tasks.

Activities (...)

Presentation evening - Albany

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Learn how to teach with interactive white boards (IWB). Register on the Spice website.

Learn how to teach with interactive white boards (IWB). Register on the Spice website.

This talk will be about the tension the Museum of Human Disease faces between acts of law and being interesting. And will link this to the types of ways art fits into trying to resolve these tensions.

Derek Williamson is currently manger of the Museum of Human Disease at the University (...)

This lecture will discuss the challenges of population growth and meeting the growing needs for energy and water, while neither destroying the other ecosystems on which we depend, nor pushing the Earth’s climate yet further from the norm of the last ten thousand years, and moreover, to do this (...)

Lake Clifton is well known for the largest array of living Thrombolites (a type of Microbialites similar to Stromatolites) in the southern hemisphere. They were first described in 1980s when the lake ranged in salinity between 7 and 35 ppt. Within the last 25 years the salinity in the lake has (...)

Residential camp

The Coppelia Project is a programme of research, development, and artwork production aimed at the creation of a troupe of four robot ballerinas able to learn and perform dance movements and interact with an audience. The project is being undertaken by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman with assistance from (...)

Over the last 50 years ethical issues associated with medical research have focussed on how individuals are informed and give consent for participation in experimental studies. They have also focussed on how the participant's privacy is protected. Parellel efforts to address privacy and consent (...)