What's On at UWA

9.00 – 10.30 am Session 9: Ground Water & Leakages Session 10: Corporate Finance Session 11: Innovation & Education 11.00 – 12.30 pm Session 12: Labour Economics Session 13: Executive Compensation and Ownership 2.00 – 3.30 pm Session 14: Choice Modelling Session 15: Bubbles, Crises (...)

Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth’s oldest and best loved park, is a living collection of the State’s natural and cultural heritage. This special guided tour, lead by the Kings Park Guides, will take the group on a walk to explore the bushland through landscaped parklands and garden’s (...)

IN THE ZONE is a major international public policy conference initiated by The University of Western Australia. The conference's key objective is to stimulate debate on the public policy, geopolitical and business challenges facing Australia and its major trading partners in China, Japan, India (...)

Drinks followed by AGM of the UWA Historical Society and talk on the progress of the official Centenary history for the university : $5

The UWA Geoscience Foundation will be holding a celebration of the Foundation’s 5th Anniversary on Tuesday 10 November from 5.30pm to 8pm at the Banquet Hall, The University Club. The cost is $35 per person. The guest speaker will be Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Chair of the Australian Nuclear Science (...)

‘We are saddling our kids with a $300 billion national debt, and so far we have offered them only a promise of $1.5 billion worth of renewable-energy infrastructure in exchange. It is a poor bargain.’

Tony Kevin, author of 'Crunch Time: using and abusing Keynes to fight the twin (...)

Assistant Professor James Dimmock will host an information evening for the new Graduate Diploma in Sport and Recreation Management on Tuesday 10th November, 2009.

Prospective students and anyone with an interest in the program are invited to attend the information session.

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When the University completed Stage 1 of the new Science Library earlier this year it was received with overwhelming enthusiasm by the students. Within weeks, it had its own Facebook fan club and a music video singing its praises had had thousands of hits on YouTube. How can a building generate so (...)

The global distribution of remote work sites and availability of sophisticated communications technology has resulted in a new way of working in a virtual world. Are we more productive in these new work arrangements? Is our work still as meaningful to us? Are we able to establish healthy work (...)

The longstanding debate as to whether prostate cancer screening is a worthwhile exercise has been bought back into the limelight following the recent completion of the combined European study into prostate cancer screening.

At a similar time further conflicting data has come from the USA (...)

At 5pm guests will view artworks. Conversations: 100 artists in the UWA Art Collection (Part 2)http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions

At 5.20pm guests will take their seats. Professor Ted Snell, UWA Director, Cultural Precinct will talk to guests about the exciting plans for the (...)

The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Visual Arts is holding its End of Year Exhibition in the Cullity Gallery from 16 - 24 November 2009.

View the innovative designs created by Architecture and Landscape Architecture students from 2009.

PLEASE NOTE: The Gallery is open (...)

Abstract: Fusion energy promises to be a major contributor to future global energy supplies because of the ready availability and affordability of the basic fuel, Deuterium, which makes it a ‘sustainable’ resource. In addition, fusion appears to be safe, environmentally-friendly and cost-competi (...)

Dr. Barry Green, formerly of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project and the European Commission Directorate for Energy, will give a public lecture entitled "The Status of Fusion Research and Development". WIth the long held hopes for fusion research and the (...)

Come join us for an evening of Philosophical discussion based on a community of inquiry model. This FREE friendly open forum is supported by Philosophy at Notre Dame, Curtin and UWA. All welcome - no background in Philosophy is required :)

Centre for Land Rehabilitation seminar, School of Earth and Environment - All Welcome.

This informative and entertaining event will show how Earth's changing Poles affect weather, climate and the environment everywhere on our planet.

The presentation includes visualisations (generated by NASA's satellite views of Earth) of our shrinking Arctic sea ice, and high definition (...)

You are invited to the Official Opening of the UWA Future Farm which is situated at Page Road, West Pingelly. The Farm will be officially opened by Hon Robyn McSweeney at 11am on Friday 20 November 2009. There will be food available from a local Pingelly community organisation. Please see (...)

Diversity at University seminars celebrate diversity - why not join us on Friday and learn something about Bangladesh from PhD student Mohammad Mynuddin Mazumder. There'll be food from the Indian subcontinent - no charge to attend and eat! You don't have to join, just come along. Staff, students (...)

Course outline: In this five-day course, students are given an overview of Aboriginal lifestyle, focussing on traditional and environmental responsibilities and the social practices of indigenous communities during pre- and post- colonial times.

The post-colonial section of the unit (...)