What's On at UWA

Prof Constable is recognised as one of the world’s leading ophthalmic surgeons and is founder of the Lions Eye Institute. He is a consultant retinal surgeon at Royal Perth, Sir Charles Gairdner and Princess Margaret Hospitals.

Prof Constable was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal from (...)

From the Australian Global Studies Research Centre at UWA, AIESEC UWA is proud to present you with a guest lecture being given by Professor Robert Lambert. He will be speaking about Globalisation and Industrial Relations and explaining what they mean and how they interrelate. Don't miss out on what (...)

The Japan Exchange & Teaching Program Alumni Association of Western Australia is holding a Careers Seminar for graduates and others who are interested in working in a Japanese company or in Japanese related industries either in Australia or globally.

A number of speakers will be (...)

Come view the Top Four and Viewer’s Choice videos from the 2010 UWA International Centre Student Video Competition and find out who won the competition!

To see the videos submitted for the event, take a look at the YouTube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/UWAInternational#grid/user (...)

Sanam Mustafa obtained an M.Sci. (Honours) in Genetics with Industrial Placement in 2004 from the University of Glasgow and completed her PhD, also at the University of Glasgow, in one of the world’s leading G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) laboratories under the supervision of Prof Graeme (...)

Blue whales in the Australian context

This talk will showcase the use of long term passive acoustic data sets in defining the habits and abundance of wide-ranging, oceanic great whales, notably the blue whale complex with an emphasis on pygmy blue whales.

The Centre for (...)

The UWA AIPN Student Petroleum Club invites you to our End of Year Sundowner sponsored by DLA Phillips Fox. Come along to network with professionals from the petroleum industry (including leaders from BP, Shell and Woodside and others) and enjoy complimentary drinks and canapés.

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At the invitation of the UWA Law School and the ALLY network, prominent gay activist, Rodney Croome will visit the Law School on Thursday 28 October to speak on 'The implications of the 2010 federal election for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) issues'.

As part of their studies, Graduate Diploma of Education students will present short papers that address selected works in the Gallery. This is an excellent opportunity to support UWA education students and to learn more about some of the rarely seen prints and drawings from the university art (...)

The course is designed as an introductory, applied course in the use of SEM using the Amos7 or Amos16 program. SEM is used widely by researchers in a diverse array of fields (including business and management, economics, epidemiology, education, marketing, nursing and health sciences, psychology (...)

Eighteen graduating students of the 2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts programme will present their final exhibition, a culmination of three years of study at UWA's ALVA Faculty, marking the end of their journey as undergraduate students and their emergence into the art world.

The 2010 (...)

This symposium is open to all clinical and academic researchers and will be an opportunity to hear from some of the world’s experts in Melanoma clinical and academic research. With the 7th Annual International Melanoma Congress being held in Sydney this year, we have been fortunate to lure (...)

The Seminar: To date, a number of potentially clinically relevant cellular transplantation approaches have been used in animal models of incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), with varying degrees of success and at least some functional improvements. The research conducted in the Eileen Bond Spinal (...)

Ross Bathgate is the leader of the Neuropeptides division at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes in Melbourne. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellow and an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the (...)

Our Generation is a powerfully provocative film that clearly outlines the undeniably devastating effects of the NT intervention, as told by the Galiwin’ku people in the remote far north east Arnhem Land, NT.

It looks at Australia’s ongoing policies of paternalism and assimilation (...)

SKMRC - Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Research Centre

If you are concerned about melanoma this is a valuable opportunity to hear a talk by Professor John Thompson, a world leader in the subject and the Director of the Melanoma Institute of Australia, one of the world’s largest melanoma (...)

Recent studies have shown that coral reefs rely heavily on the delivery of offshore particulate matter to sustain their high productivity. Off North West Australia, the Leeuwin Current, an anomalous eastern boundary current flows adjacent to Ningaloo Reef, Australia’s longest fringing reef. Using (...)

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in perhaps the swiftest and largest response by the oceanographic community in history to a single incident. An ocean observing system was created on the fly from many disparate parts. Happenstance and my research history gave me a (...)

Historically water resource management has been concerned with water supply, sometimes waste water disposal and in some instances with flood control; in brief the domain of the civil and sanitary engineer. Then in the 1960's, water resource managers and planners had to include the concept of "e (...)

Dr Kaylene Simpson is Head of the Functional Genomics Facility at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The group encompasses the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics (VCFG) which enables whole genome screening using a short hairpin RNA interference (shRNA) approach or a high throughput small (...)