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The UWA Co-op Bookshop’s Book Sale runs until Tuesday May 31st

UWA Hoodies on sale from $39.95

Extra 50% off the Sale Price of all books until May 31st. Novels, non fiction, reference and selection of UQP titles available.

Co-op members also receive Member (...)

Professor Simon Brown has comprehensive specialist clinical training in Emergency Medicine (FACEM) with additional experience in the fields of anaesthesia, critical care, prehospital care, retrieval medicine, disaster medicine and health management, combined with a PhD in immunology/allergy and (...)

We gain a lot of different information from faces, even when they are unfamiliar to us. For example, we can almost instantly determine the gender or emotional expression of a face, evaluate how attractive we find it, and decide whether or not that person is looking at us.

Although most (...)

The presence of Neanderthals in Central Europe during the Weichselian glaciations (Pleistocene) was sporadic and likely resulted from migrations during warm phases only. While cold climate restricted habitation of Central Europe by Neanderthals, evidence from hundreds of human–made flint (...)

Excessive growth of cyanobacterial biomass, commonly known as cyanobacterial blooms, appear to be increasing in magnitude and frequency worldwide, thus posing an additional threat to the safety and security of water resources With the increasing global water stress, there is a need for effective (...)

The focus of the paper is on the everyday negotiations and engagements between sometimes competing discourses of identity in the lives of individual actors. Specifically, I look at the intersections and collisions between discourses of work, masculinity, and sexuality in the context of Japanese (...)

The “less is more” hypothesis suggests that one reason adults and children differ in their language acquisition abilities is that they also differ in other cognitive capacities. According to one version, children’s relatively poor memory may make them more likely to over-regularize (...)

Law School staff, Library staff and Law students will be invited and encouraged to discuss current teaching and learning related stories and share their teaching and learning experiences, research and scholarship with colleagues. All welcome

Bob Muir’s career as chemometrician; part analytical chemist, part statistician has spanned over 16 years. He is the Senior Chemist and Research Officer for ChemCentre, Perth. Previously Bob worked for DSTO, part of the Australian Department of Defence and prior to that the Defence Science & (...)

All interested staff are welcome at this cross-faculty forum on rural practicum or field placement experiences.

Three presenters will outline the approach taken to rural placements before inviting a wider sharing of ideas in an open forum.

We hope to generate opportunities for (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Sabina Pannek (UWA/Aachen)

will speak on

Fat elements in quasi-simple groups of Lie type

at 12 noon on Tuesday 31st of May in MLR2

Abstract: We call an element of the general linear group GL(d,q) fat, or more pre (...)

The Seminar: Jim Chisholm describes his fieldwork among the Navajo (1968, 1972, 1974-76). He provides an overview of Navajo society and culture then focuses on neonatal behaviour (temperament), the development of fear of strangers, and mother-infant interaction, especially as affected by use of the (...)

Assessment is what makes a university’s world go round! Despite this being a universal truth, there may be some that disagree. Two dedicated teams of combatants will hotly debate that “assessment is a waste of time”.

The UWA Toastmasters Club Team will argue the positive while the (...)

Adjunct Professor Lynne Hunt has worked in British and Australian higher education for 40 years, and is recognised as a leading member of the learning and teaching development community in Australia.

This interactive two-hour workshop will be run as a community of practice in which (...)

The University service learning working party defines “service learning” as an activity that combines community service with educational processes and objectives so that the service is beneficial to both the recipient and the provider. Service learning also differs from community service (...)

BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute, http://www.genomics.cn/en/index.php) is one of the largest genome centres in the world. As you may know, the complete genome of one species will define the related biological research through the coming decades. Since 1999, BGI has been a core (...)

It might be easy to imagine but what of the consequences? No assessment? How will the students know what to learn?

At least there would be no need to be concerned with instilling academic integrity in students because there would be no motivation to cheat. And all this talk of soft (...)

This workshop has been cancelled. Please contact [email protected] for further information.

In November 2010, Ross Garnaut was commissioned to provide an update to the 2008 Climate Change Review for the Australian Government and community. Since then, the Garnaut Climate Change Review—Update 2011 has released a series of papers addressing developments across a range of areas including (...)

A lecture by Professor Gareth Stratton,a Healthway sponsored Visiting Fellow in Paediatric Exercise Science from Liverpool (UK).

This presentation will summarise Professor Stratton’s experiences in WA during his Healthway Fellowship. He will address the potential for world leading (...)