What's On at UWA

The Confucius Institute will celebrate Chinese Mid-autumn day on 19 September and we are welcoming students and staff to sample traditional mid-autumn delicacies while enjoying performances by local artists.

Ochre Contemporary Dance Company Founder and Director Louise Howden-Smith OAM will share intsights into the Company's unique structure and position as Company-in-Residence within the University of Western Australia’s Cultural Precinct. Penny Mullen and Simon Stewart will discuss their research (...)

Convocation invites all graduates and other members of Convocation to attend the Second Ordinary Meeting

Guest Speaker Hon Justice James Edelman of the Supreme Court of Western Australia will be speaking on "Challenges for University education in the next century".

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

This seminar has been postponed to later in the year.

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Dr Mark Shackleton, one of the world’s leading cancer experts is a Medical Oncologist and a Group Leader of the Melanoma Research Laboratory at the (...)

Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA will host a free forum on genetically modified technology and its future in agriculture.

The public forum is an opportunity for city-based consumers and decision-makers to further their understanding of GM technology.

It will be (...)

The UWA centenary celebration for the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be held in Kalgoorlie. We will have a mini-med school with various demonstrations that include suturing, plastering and painting of muscles and skeletons onto volunteers. Other exhibits include the RFDS (...)

The University Bicycle Club is holding the UBC Rolling Weekend on October 12th and 13th of 2013. The event is a cycling weekend, held to coincide with the South West Cycle Club’s annual event; the Lighthouse To Lighthouse. The LTL event is a charitable, team event and this year is aiming to (...)

Abbie completed a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Biomedical Science and a Bachelor of Forensics double degree in 2011. She also achieved a concurrent Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration as part of Murdoch University’s MasterClass Program. In 2012, she completed her (...)

The Warren Centre’s annual Innovation Lecture Series puts successful Australian innovators in the public spotlight.

Dr Alex Zelinsky, Chief Defence Scientist and head of The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), presents The Warren Centre’s 2013 Innovation Lecture (...)

While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world, paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker´s arousal and emotional state, and extralinguistic cues reflect more stable speaker characteristics including identity (...)

The Distinguished speaker for the 2013 Bruce Hunt Oration is Associate Professor Jenny Gunton, President of the Australian Diabetes Society and Group leader, Immunology Program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Dr Bruce Atlee Hunt was a foundation member of the Royal (...)

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares. The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftsmen and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall. Incorporating a dedicated (...)

For Danza Viva’s 28th season, renowned Spanish dancer Paloma Gomez returns to Perth to feature as star of Danza Viva Spanish Dance Company’s new production Viva España at the Octagon Theatre on Saturday 25 January.

Famed as both dancer and teacher, Paloma Gomez was a member of (...)

The AgLTAS project aims to develop a National Academic Standards Statement for agriculture – representing what a student in Agriculture and related disciplines should know, understand and be able to do on graduation.

You are invited to attend an upcoming workshop, led by Dr Tina Acuna (...)

Dr. Ferdinand, author of the Gold Standard GAMSAT textbook which is available at most university Coop bookshops will be teaching GAMSAT Science Review course in the Junior Common Room (JCR),St. George's College, UWA on February 10-11 2014. The Science review course is being held to help students in (...)

Prof Magnus von Unge (Karolinska Institute and Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo) will speak at 130pm Thursday February 13 in Uniclub Case Study Room.

Prof von Unge was the first to apply embryonic stem cell therapies to the middle ear and will present his recent work on (...)

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares. The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftsmen and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall. Incorporating a dedicated (...)

Announcing the 2014 Bayliss Youth Lecture presented by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Western Australian Branch. This is a free public lecture. Please come along and advertise this lecture to all students, friends and family.

Making Molecules: Big ideas from small molecules Dr (...)

RAG Summer Lecture Series 2 Illustrated Lectures on The Baths of Caracalla, and Rome, Renewed.

Saturday 22nd March, 2014 1:30pm – 4:00pm

1:30pm - ”Building the Baths of Caracalla” presented by Winthrop Prof. David Kennedy. Dr. Sandra Ottley lectured on the Baths in a RAG (...)

Isabel Hede, a guest of the UWA and a visiting artist from the Australian National Academy of Music puts her best forward in a program of MOODY modern music! She will showcase works for violin and piano from composers such as Prokofiev and Messiaen, and finish with the universally adored Dvorak's (...)