What's On at UWA

We invite you to listen and engage in a lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of ‘what matters to me and why’. The next session is Friday 20th April 2012, 12-1.30pm at the seminar room on the 3rd floor of the Science Library.

At each session an (...)

We invite you to listen and engage in lunch time conversation with members of the UWA community on the topic of 'what matters to me and why'. Bring your own lunch!

The Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Research Centre (SKMRC), based within the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR), is dedicated to enhancing outcomes for people with melanoma by conducting high quality medical research.

The Centre was established in memory of young Perth (...)

Professor Nick Evans, Head of Department of Linguistics at the ANU. Topic: Puzzles of Aspect in Nen. Nen is a langauage of the Morehead-Maro family (Nambu branch) spoken in just one village (Bimadbn) in the Trans-Fly region of PNG. Friday, April 20, 2.15pm SSCI:2.29, Social Sciences Building

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 (...)

We are incredibly fluent in perceiving emotions from facial expressions and this ability plays an important role in our everyday social interactions. However, the exact cognitive mechanisms underlying this ability are still unclear. In my talk, I will focus on a few studies in which I have (...)

Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students

Worldwide fisheries production, from capture fisheries, has leveled off at a little less than 100 million tonnes annually, whilst aquaculture production still continues to expand rapidly. In Australia, the annual rate of growth in aquaculture production has increased at more than 10% per year since (...)

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 (...)

The PHT1 high affinity Pi transporters belong to a highly multigenic family of genes. They are tightly regulated spatially and temporally by Pi supply at transcriptional and post-translational level. Combinations of genetic, cell biology and molecular biology experiment will be presented to (...)

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 (...)

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr will discuss the Tissue Culture and Art Project(TC&A) retrospective in Lazina Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gdansk; they will use the opportunity to reflect on some of TC&A’s earlier works, and attempt to create a kind of a narrative to culminate with TC&A’s (...)

It is an inherent characteristic of humans that we want to know the reason for everything.

That “need to know”, to understand the reasons, is not confined to the physical world. It extends to decisions made by another, especially if they affect us.

Who has not, at some (...)

For all members of the health care team including physicians, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals.

UWA staff are invited to Preview the Co-op Bookshop May Sale on Monday April 30th. Refreshments will be available during the day and each docket can be placed in a draw to win a Mother’s Day Pamper Pack. Wide selection of titles from $5.95. Select from fiction and non-fiction, academic remainders (...)

This presentation will provide information on Canadian research grants in all disciplines available to academic staff and postgraduate students.

LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Pleural Fluid Biomarkers" by Professor Jose Porcel from Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Spain. Time: 12 noon for light lunch with 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.

A public lecture by Derek Elsworth, Professor of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University & 2012 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

Shale gas is just one of a variety of approaches that may be taken to reduce the carbon footprint (...)

The Co-op Bookshop May Sale ends Thursday May 31st

All Sale stock half marked price this week only. Wide selection of fiction and non-fiction, academic remainders and children's books.

The University Co-operative Bookshop Limited Guild Village, UWA, Nedlands Campus