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"Challenges of Publishing in an era of Impact Factor and Open Access - a view from the BMJ group"

It’s hard to maintain hope for the future of our civilization in the face of the flood of bad news in the media. But without hope, there is no hope.

It has been estimated that over a million organizations worldwide are working to change hearts and minds, create global networks of (...)

Muhammad Fazril Razif is a PhD student based at WAIMR. In 2007, he graduated from Murdoch University with a Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Science/Molecular Biology) and Bachelor of Forensics. He subsequently pursued an Honours degree under the supervision of Prof. Luba Kalaydjieva, in which he (...)

Muslim feminists argue that there are at least two factors that contribute to the women’s subordination in Muslim societies. First, patriarchal interpretations of the Qur’an which tend to subordinate women and blur the Qur’anic message of gender equality. Second, many Muslims cannot (...)

Got some Questions? Want some Answers? Come join us in Mental Health Week to pick the brains of our diverse panel of experts at SPAMH's inaugural Q&A event: Adventures In Mental Health. No issue is off-limits! Stalls from 7pm, Q&A from 7.30pm. Light supper provided. Dress code is smart (...)

This workshop introduces the historical and difficult epsilon-delta definition of a limit. Students learn to understand and read the definition properly, before applying it to prove the existence of basic limits. The focus is intuition, as this usually yields the solution before pen hits paper.

If you want to improve how you respond to IELTS essay task questions, this workshop is for you! You can apply the skills you learn to essays you write at UWA. This workshop runs for 2 hours. Free for UWA degree course students.

The second concert in the series in which UWA students present the Opus 20 string quartets of Haydn

Ms Jamie Summerfield, postgraduate student (PhD), will give a talk on a search for marine bacterial quorum quenching compounds in the Microbiology & Immunology Discipline Seminar room, Friday, 14 October 2011 at 9:00am. Bacteria use a process called quorum sensing to communicate with each other (...)

A. Professor, Jon Tarry, will discuss the art works in Recent Past as explorations of the 70s and 80s Australian vernacular which focussed on the local, the everyday, and the 'here and now' of the times. Much of this has been replaced today by internationalism, and a desire to seek out Otherness (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Simon Guest (UWA)

will speak on

The spread of a finite group

at 1pm on Friday 14th of October in MLR2

Abstract: Let G be a finite group. We say that G has spread at least k if for any k distinct nontrivial (...)

The Cancer Council Relay for Life at UWA is a Guild Volunteering run event. In it's inaugural year in 2010 Relay@UWA raised over $100,000 for The Cancer Council and we hope to go above and beyond that this year. The event will be held on the 15th and 16th of October. We require as many teams and (...)

Interested in finding out more about Student Exchange? It's not too late!

The next deadline for applications is FRIDAY 2nd December (for exchange in Semester 2, 2012). Come along to a helpful info session and talk to a friendly Exchange Adviser and the Engineering Faculty's Academic (...)

Come along to practise using vocal variety and learn techniques that will help you to clearly get your points across.

These workshops are for postgrads writing a dissertation as part of a coursework degree. Each workshop provides a brief session on a different aspect of writing and an opportunity to get individual help.

The 2011 Ian Constable lecture will address the topic; “Now, free, and perfect? How to live a long and healthy life in the 21st century.”

This will be presented by Professor Ian Frazer, the internationally renowned co-creator of the technology for the cervical cancer vaccine and (...)

Students and staff, bring your lunch and meet the new UWA Museums Student Committee on the verandah of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Hear about the committee's plans for future events to be held in conjunction with the gallery. After lunch enjoy a tour of the gallery's current exhibition led by (...)

Event Management Training aims to provide current and prosective Event Managers smf event staff with: increased knowledge of the processes for planning and managing an event that will involve alcohol on unlicensed Univeristy premises or at an external venue; increased knowledge about planning a (...)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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The Seminar: Human breastmilk is the gold standard for the nutrition of the human infant at the early stages of life. In addition to its valuable nutritional components, breastmilk also contains (...)