What's On at UWA

Following retirement from his academic position as Director of the Maternity Hospital at the Insel Spital in Berne, Professor Henning Schneider has remained active in the field of placental research. This activity is based on international collaborations developed over several years, and involve Dr (...)

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, with the Faculty of Education, offer the following Health Professional Education postgraduate courses in 2010: Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master’s degree (by coursework or research). These courses suit a range of health (...)

Energy and materials have a long-standing and mutually enriching relationship. In this lecture Professor Ploog will show that materials science offers unique possibilities to improve key properties of energy supplies. In the long term, materials science will help to promote the use of revolutionary (...)

This informal Q & A session will examine the legal, social and humanitarian ramifications of the Howard Government's Northern Territory Intervention on Indigenous communities. We are lucky enough to have distinguished guests on the panel including Dr Carmen Lawrence. Organised by UWA's (...)

Everyone is welcome to attend this free event: bring a friend and join us for some interesting philosophical exchange. A "community of inquiry" will be established to discuss the topic, led by a trained philosopher.

From the establishment in 1605 of Port Royal in what is now Canada, France’s colonial empire ebbed and webbed in size and significance over the following centuries. If the French empire has a birth date it also has a date when its death became inevitable: 1954, the battle of Dien Bien Phu in (...)

Sarah Lovett - Final BSc Neuroscience Honours Seminar - "Human bone marrow stromal cell transplantation following complete spinal cord injury". Presents at 4:30pm. Supervisors: Dr. Giles Plant and Dr. Stuart Hodgetts.

Christina Mo - Final BSc Neuroscience Honours Seminar - " (...)

Slow Food’s founder, Carlo Petrini, came to prominence two decades ago when he stopped McDonald's opening by Rome's Spanish Steps. His non-lethal weapon of choice at the time? Plates of penne. He started Slow Food in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food (...)

An Institute of Advanced Studies Masterclass with Katharine Parkes, Reader in Applied Psychology, University of Oxford and 2009 Senior Gledden Visiting Fellow, UWA. This masterclass takes a broadly-based approach to psychosocial and human factors aspects of FIFO work, including mining and, in (...)

Despite four decades of good faith effort to teach Ethics in business schools, readers of the business press are still greeted on a regular basis with headlines about egregious excess and scandal. It becomes reasonable to ask why these efforts have not been working.

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The UWA Big Band has been working hard to bring you the best of Glenn Miller, Thad Jones, Jerry Gray, Sammy Nestico and much more... Enjoy a drink at the fully licenced bar with nibbles also available. Come and dance along or just relax to the swingin' sound of the UWA Big Band. Tickets are (...)

The Annual St Luke's Day Service will be held on the evening of Thursday 15 October 2009 in Perth. The Service is an opportunity for people from all walks of life to come together with palliative care service providers to remember the lives of people close to them who have died in the previous (...)

It's free, it's fascinating, and it's friendly: it's Diversity at University. Join us to hear an informal talk about Saudi Arabia by MSc student Majed Aldehri, ask questions in convivial company, and eat some delicious ethnic food. Everyone is welcome.

SymbioticA Friday Seminar > Synthetic Kingdom

What does design have to offer to a biotech revolution?

Daisy Ginsberg uses design to explore the implications of emerging and unfamiliar technologies, science and services. This includes creating compelling narratives that (...)

The Royal Society of Western Australia Symposium will cover a range of wide ranging subjects: from classic palaeontology to modern concepts in evolution, including evolutionary microbiology, neoLamarckism, transposable elements as facilitators of evolution, to exploration of the predecessors and (...)

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, with the Faculty of Education, offer the following Health Professional Education postgraduate courses in 2010: Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master’s degree (by coursework or research). These courses suit a range of health (...)

Everyone you have ever known will die. And so will you.

And yet we dance in the looming shadows of mortality, we dance and we talk and we eat and we argue. We read books. We care for people. We buy houses. We plant trees and we start to drive and we learn how to make milk frothy. Because (...)

The lecture is entitled Empirical Model Discovery. In it Professor Hendry re-interprets model evaluation as discovering what is wrong, robust statistics as discovering which sub-sample is reliable, and model selection as discovering which model best matches the criteria. Automatic methods enable (...)

Islamic art can be defined with an elaborate sentence as the art produced for the most part by (but by no means exclusively) Muslim artists and craftsmen beginning from the 7th century CE in those areas of Asia, Africa, and Europe that were for the most part ruled by Muslim leaders and which was (...)

The global financial crisis has tested business leaders worldwide and found many unprepared. Shareholders, employees and suppliers have been dramatically impacted. But what is the wider impact on our community? Have business leaders been socially responsible and how should we have been better (...)