What's On at UWA

Monitoring of the ice shelf and sub-ice shelf ocean temperatures represents an important component towards understanding ice sheet stability and the potential for rapid sea level rise.Continuous monitoring is challenging due to difficult surface access, the difficulties to penetrate through the ice (...)

Prof Forbes completed her PhD in Paediatric Nephrology in 1999 at the University of Melbourne. In 2012, she became the Group Leader for the Glycation and Diabetes Group at the Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. She is currently an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and holds (...)

It’s the perfect marriage of art and meditation. The ancient art of Chinese calligraphy can strengthen your mental powers through meditation on art and beauty. Learn basics such as posture, brush holding and layout. Explore different styles of calligraphy.

This sesssion introduces limits (left hand, right hand and limits at a point), including visual representations, and discusses a collection of tools to help you calculate limits. You will see that most limits can be calculated mentally and develop thought processes before writing down your workings (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

What is the relationship between Higher Education and Social Justice? Is there one? Does Higher Education promote social justice in society or, rather, does it create social injustice? These troubling questions are the ones we attempt to address in our recent publication ‘Social Justice and (...)

The University Physics Society will be having its annual Quiz Night this Thursday night at the Tav. It's a chance to show off your general knowledge whilst enjoying a few drinks with your friends, and have a chance to win great prizes! Doors open at 7pm. Quiz starts 7.30pm.

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Special talk during Honey Week 2013

A mixture of old and new works for cello and piano covering the last 100 years. Older pieces from the start of the century with new interpretations plus new works from the later part of the century. There will also be original music written by a UWA Music School student.

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Learn techniques to help you better understand the written and spoken components of the IELTS test. You can apply what you learn to your unit readings and lectures at UWA. This workshop runs for 2 hours. Free for UWA degree course students.

Scott Stephens from the ABC will speak on current ethical and social trends from a Religion and Ethics point of view. Scott is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer. This event is one of several events commemorating fifty years since the death of Prof CS Lewis, a very significant post war author (T (...)

Scott Stephens of ABC Religion and Ethics will speak on "The Missing Middle: How we lost our sense of the Good (and our sense of God along with it)." This is one of several events commemorating C.S.Lewis and his impact. One of 2013 UWA CHaplain's International Lecture series.

We start to demystify the logarithm by exploring its definition with simple examples and finding its place in your mathematical toolkit. The rules for manipulating logarithm expressions (the "log laws") are introduced and used in standard test style questions. After that we demonstrate (...)

This Skillshop will help students identify stressors affecting your studies; understand the impact of stress on wellbeing; explore strategies to manage stress; learn relaxation techniques; and develop resilience.

Louise Devenish (DMA candidate)

Writing essays in an exam situation can seem like a slightly chaotic process! This workshop will describe the range of things you can do to prepare yourself for essay exams.

“This presentation will outline some of the public health challenges facing Australia, discuss the role of advocacy, and describe campaigns that have helped to change policy, behaviour and public health in Australia”.

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Mike Daube is Professor of Health Policy (...)

Gina Ravenscroft is a postdoctoral researcher, and currently holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Early career Fellowship and a Raine Priming Grant, within Prof Nigel Laing’s Molecular Neurogenetics Laboratory. Gina joined Prof Laing’s group as a PhD student after (...)

This session uses our knowledge of 1-variable functions and their limits to define limits for 2-variable functions. After that we discuss the various different types of calculation required to establish whether a limit exists. Recommended for MATH1001 and higher level MATH students wishing to (...)