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October 2012
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Tuesday 30 |
14:00 - PRESENTATION - Study in the USA (Student Exchange) : An information session about exchange in the USA
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Want to go on exchange to the USA? Come along to the info session to hear specific details on studying in the USA. Meet UWA students who have studied there as well as students studying at UWA from the USA.
18:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Guild Education Council Elections : Nominate to be on Education Council
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Elections for the positions of Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, or one of two Ordinary Committee Members. Position descriptions for Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer can be found here: http://calendar.publishing.uwa.edu.au/latest/partd/guildregulations/subsidiarycouncils
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Wednesday 31 |
South-western Australia was a part of Gondwanaland, and some of the most ancient parts of the Earth’ crust can be found here. Other parts of the landscape originated more recently from calcareous marine deposits [1]. Therefore, the soils of Western Australia are amongst the most heavily leached (...)
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November 2012
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Thursday 01 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music Presents: Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Flute Choir and Wind & Brass Ensembles
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Be transported away from the everyday with our exciting line-up of Thursday 1.10pm, free lunchtime concerts. This year's revamped Lunchtime Concert series features the best of our students in solo and small ensemble performance.
16:00 - PRESENTATION - Study in Canada (Student Exchange) : An information session about exchange in Canada
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Want to go on exchange to Canada? Come along to the info session to hear specific details on studying in Canada. Meet UWA students who have studied there as well as students studying at UWA from Canada.
17:30 - VISITING SPEAKER - From Convicts to Carrollup: a history of Fremantle Prison art : Guest Lecture - Fremantle Prison Curators
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In the late 1970s pioneering art teacher Steve Culley transformed the Fremantle Prison art program from traditional watercolour painting into a course where ‘ideas unfold in the mind and lock into the creator’s hands, as each pursues his own style of art.’ (Shackles prison newsletter, Spring (...)
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Friday 02 |
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: Music Ensembles Concert
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The School of Music invites you and your guests to join us as we celebrate the musical achievements of students from across UWA, who have chosen to broaden and enrich their degrees with music!
In a concert that will take you on journey from the heady lights of Broadway, to the carnival (...)
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Wednesday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Hydrological and biogeochemical pathways in hillslopes of coastal plain catchments: How does seasonality affect phosphorus fate and transport processes?
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Nutrient loss from terrestrial ecosystems causes nutrient enrichment in receiving waterways (eutrophication) threatening their water quality and biodiversity values. The Peel-Harvey estuary (WA), RAMSAR-listed wetlands and their contributing waterways in coastal plain catchments in the Peel-Harvey (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - �BARD1 and its isoforms: functions essential in healthy tissue, hijacked by cancer cells�
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Professor Irminger-Finger studied biology and biochemistry in Zurich, where she graduated in molecular biology and biochemistry and obtained a PhD in molecular genetics. After a three year postdoctoral period at the Molecular Cell Biology Department at the Harvard University, she returned to (...)
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Friday 09 |
13:30 - SEMINAR - Kimberley Marine Science Seminar 9 November : Free seminar about current and planned marine research in the Kimberley
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The final of 3 FREE seminars on past, current and planned research in the Kimberley
Afternoon tea provided.
SEMINAR 3: FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Dr Chris Simpson (DEC)
The WAMSI Kimberley Marine Research Program: A once in a lifetime opportunity
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Tuesday 13 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Developing therapies for age-related muscle wasting - sarcopenia : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: With ageing, the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function (sarcopenia) results in frailty, loss of independence and is a major cause of increased falls and fractures. Surprisingly little is known about the mechanisms of sarcopenia and these will prove to be complex. We (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
12:30 - PERFORMANCE - Free performance - Ramayana: Indonesian Dance-Drama
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Combining music, dance and story-telling, this performance will be an unforgettable opportunity to experience the riches of the Balinese performing arts.
Featuring some forty musicians and dancers from the Indonesian Institute of Arts, Denpasar.
Presented as a free ticketed (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Numerical modeling of the Long-term transport, dispersion, and accumulation of Black Sea Pollutants into the North Aegean coastal waters.
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The present ecological situation of the Black Sea in relation to increased shipping from ports in the Black Sea, the prospect of considerably high tanker traffic carrying Caspian and Central Asian oil through the Aegean and the excessive loads of nutrients and other harmful substances flowing from (...)
Dr Terry Boyle is an early carer investigator whose research aims to identity and improve our understanding of modifiable risk factors (particularly physical activity and sedentary behaviour) for cancer. His recently completed PhD research involved investigating the effects of physical activity (...)
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Wednesday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - �New insights into Diabetes and other complex diseases from developing genetic technologies�
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Grant Morahan is the inaugural Diabetes Research Foundation Professor and Professor of Systems Genetics at the University of Western Australia, and the Director of the Centre for Diabetes Research at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research. Before coming to WA, he was at The Walter (...)
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Thursday 22 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Special Plant Biology Seminar: Peta Clode (CMCA): "The CMCA: An old dog with new tricks" : CMCA now offers many new and exciting opportunities for bio-researchers.
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The Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) provides local researchers and students in biology and biomaterials with access to infrastructure and expertise across imaging (small animal, optical, confocal, 3-D and electron microscopies), analytical (elemental, isotopic, and (...)
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Monday 26 |
14:00 - SEMINAR - Gibbon Ecology and Distribution: Unanswered Questions : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Despite the considerable knowledge we have accumulated about gibbons (Primates: Hylobatidae), which now include 17 recognized species, some of the most basic questions about their biology remain unanswered. One challenge is to explain why there is so little overlap in ranges (sympatry) (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Respiratory load-induced cardiorespiratory failure : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Respiratory loads have long been used to stress the respiratory muscles. When these loads cause failure, however, this has been attributed to inadequate pressure generation by the respiratory muscles, especially the diaphragm. Recently, we discovered that in a rat model of load-induced (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Student Exchange HERMES-HELP Session : Seminar on how to complete your Student Exchange application
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Seminar on how to complete your Student Exchange application. Staff and Exchange Reps will be available to assist you. Bring your laptop!
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Wednesday 28 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia.
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A target to reduce phosphorus flows into the Gippsland Lakes in south-eastern Australia by 40% in order to improve water quality has previously been established by stakeholders. This target, like many others worldwide, has been set mostly on the basis of environmental concerns, with limited (...)
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