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This one day event will help you to understand and limit the impact of mental health issues in the workplace, provide sound strategies to minimise your workplace psychological injury risk and generate ideas for how you can shift your organisations mental health culture. The topics to be explored by specialists in workplace and mental health issues at the symposium:

· Mental health issues and crises in the workplace

· Dealing with difficult people

· Stress and bullying – risks and strategies

· Reasonable adjustments to support mental health issues

· Developing individual and organisational resilience

Professor Jones received his Ph.D. from the University of London. Joining the University of Southern California, he went on to be the Director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1993-2011. He is a past President of the American Association for Cancer Research. He has published more than 300 scientific papers and received several honours, including the Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Cancer Institute.

He will discuss the revolution in the field of epigenomics, and how drugs are already in the clinic to cure diseases by altering epigenetic states. He will also explain that the International Human Epigenome Consortium has begun work to complete the mapping of 1,000 epigenomes from normal and diseased cell types to define the mechanisms responsible for somatic cell inheritance, cell development and diseases such as cancer.

Students are invited to spend an evening at the gallery observing the vibrant colours, eclecticism and innovation of the Western Desert’s Ngaanyatjarra artists, rediscover some forgotten treasures from the Berndt Museum and view important pieces from Australia’s largest collection of women’s art.

- Special Guest Speakers and Performers

- Tours of the Gallery

- Free Food and Drink Provided

For all students who might be interested in paid, short term positions as English Language assistants in Spain, the Spanish Counsellor for Education, Prof Gonzalez Fernandez-Corugedo will be giving a presentation. To be eligible you need to be an Australian national, have completed a university degree or be a final year student of a degree, have English as a first language and some knowledge of Spanish.

Behind the scenes at Tokyo's Sony ExploraScience interactive science museum - a summer of science performances, blogging, media releases and workshop planning

At this point of the year staff and students throw themselves at a semester full of things that change them, new knowledge, new relationships, new inner challenges and new questions. This service is an opportunity to make time to orient towards what God is doing with this world and with them, and to tune in. This year, Commencement Prayers are hosted by Unichurch, 260 Bagot Rd Subiaco.

The Seminar: A large body of work has been produced in the laboratory of Prof. Newsholme detailing the importance of amino acids to insulin secretion. While long-term exposure to high glucose induces oxidative stress in beta cells, conflicting results have been published regarding the impact of ROS on acute glucose exposure and their role in GSIS. Although beta cells are considered to be particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage, as they express relatively low levels of some peroxide-metabolizing enzymes such as catalase and glutathione peroxidase, other less known glutathione-based antioxidant systems are expressed in beta cells at higher levels. Specific interactions between RNS and ROS may be the cause of the vulnerability of pancreatic beta-cells to oxidative damage. While this presentation will provide background information as to the importance of metabolic integration of nutritional and endocrine signals in the beta cell for insulin secretion, the emerging role of amino acid availability for glutathione synthesis and for the maintenance of beta cell function and viability during periods of metabolic disturbance will be described.

The Speaker: Prof. Philip Newsholme was educated at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford, UK. He then was involved in Postdoctoral training at the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, USA and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK under the supervision of Prof Donal Walsh and Prof Nick Hales, respectively. Philip Newsholme moved to University College Dublin, Ireland in 1993 to take up a lectureship in Biochemistry and where he set up a research team investigating nutrient, endocrine and immune regulation of insulin secretion and also metabolic adaptions to exercise in healthy and diabetic individuals. This area of research is critical to understanding the pathophysiology of Type-2 diabetes. Philip was promoted to the position of Associate Professor of Metabolic Science in 2007 and was appointed to the Position of Head of Biochemistry in UCD Dublin in September 2008. Philip Newsholme moved to take up the position of Professor and Head of School, Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth WA, in September 2011. He also collaborates with colleagues in industry via Food for Health Ireland (FHI) and also collaborates with scientists in AstraZeneca (Manchester, UK). Prof. Newsholme is hoping to develop collaborations with companies in Australia, working in the areas of metabolic health and nutrition.

BCG is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Our customised approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets, with close collaboration at all levels of the client organisation. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organisations, and secure lasting results.

We have offices in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney and would like to invite you to our on-campus presentation on full-time graduate career opportunities. This presentation will be a good opportunity for you to find out more about the high impact work we do and a terrific opportunity to meet people from the local offices of BCG.

Arup staff members from the Perth office will be presenting on the Arup graduate development program to kick off their recruitment activities for the 2013 graduate intake.

All Civil Engineering graduating or vacation students of the University of Western Australia are welcome to attend. Come prepared with questions!

LUNCH PROVIDED! Bookings essential on CareerHub.

Just signed up with EWB (or even just thinking about it) and want to get involved for real?? This event is for YOU! Come CONNECT with new friends, LEARN about who we are and what we do, TAKE ADVANTAGE of opportunities and GET INVOLVED!!!

Why just FLOAT through uni? Do you want to....

- Make new university MATES? - Spend time OVERSEAS? - NETWORK with corporate engineers? - Learn leadership SKILLS you can't get in lectures? - Give something BACK to society? - GET INVOLVED at uni? - Have something EXTRA for the RESUME?

AND HAVE SOME SERIOUS FUN??

Then come to EWB UWA's FireUp! where you can learn all about the wide range of volunteering activities EWB can offer you! FREE PIZZA FOR ALL ATTENDEES!!

Last November a 27 years old Hazara asylum seeker was about to be deported to Afghanistan. The Federal Magistrate Court put a temporary injunction against his forced removal because of ‘lack of procedural fairness.’ Now a legal challenge is underway in the High Court to determine the fate of all Afghan refugees listed for forced deportation under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Australian and Afghan governments in early 2011. Increasingly, the Hazara refugee applications have been rejected as the Australian government argues that the situation for Hazaras has improved in Afghanistan and thus have ‘no need of international protection.’ Abdul Hekmat will discuss this controversial deal against the background of continuing persecution and suffering of Hazara people in Afghanistan. He made a personal trip to Hazarajat, Afghanistan in 2010 to document Hazara lives. He has produced a striking photography exhibition touring around the country and a first-hand report detailing the current situation of Hazaras in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This will be a rare opportunity to see the ‘Unsafe haven’ exhibition at the University Club on a closing day and hear his talk on the exhibition and the Hazara situation in the context of Afghan politics in the post Taliban period.

Speaker Bio: Abdul Karim Hekmat arrived as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2001. He spent five months in Curtin detention centre in WA and then lived for over three years under Temporary Protection Visa. He has participated in many forums, conferences and media debates, the Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has articles published about refugees at The Australian, National Times, The Age and the Drum. He also writes short stories and his first short story will be published an anthology ‘Alien Shores’ in May, 2012. He lives and works in Sydney helping young people from refugee backgrounds with their settlement and capacity building.

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Representatives from Deloitte will be in the Business School foyer to answer your questions about their graduate and vacation programs. Don't miss out, their applications close in March.

Find out more about the CPA at the drop-in session in the Business School foyer.

McKinsey & Company is the world's most influential management consulting firm. In 2011 we served private companies and public sector institutions from more than 89 offices in over 50 countries. In a career with McKinsey, you will build unparalleled expertise, work with leading corporations around the world, and have real impact. We are looking for bright, creative women and men, of exceptional intellectual ability and character, to join our consulting team. We offer one of the most attractive opportunities in Australia for new graduates. We give you incomparable work experience, cutting-edge training, and exposure to many industries around the world.

Speaker Bio: Ehud Toledano is a Professor of Ottoman and Middle Eastern History, and the Director of the Graduate School of Historical Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Previously, he held the role as Head of the University’s History Department. He is a leading Israeli academic specializing in Turkey and the Ottoman legacy as well as contemporary Middle Eastern politics.

He holds a Princeton PhD (1979), and has occupied teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA. Among his books are The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression, 1840- 1890, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982 (also published in Turkish),State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998 and As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.

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Do you want to be challenged with original problems every day? Be trained in how to communicate your ideas concisely and powerfully? Make a difference to leading Australian and global businesses?

Then, this presentation is for you!

Refreshments and networking following presentation.

Have you considered a career in Management Consulting? Do you want to find out more about working for Bain & Company and the type of work we do? If so then come along to our recruiting presentation to meet Bainies and hear all about the work we do.

L.E.K has establised a global track record of helping companies achieve tangible, high-impact results. We have proven experience in applying sophisticated analytics to devise solutions to complex issues, giving executives the answers they need to make critical business decisions. L.E.K Consulting will be on campus to promote our graduate opportunities. Come along to our presentation to find out more about a exciting career in management consulting. REFRESHMENTS TO FOLLOW!

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Museums presents an informative lunchtime conversation this Friday 9 March, 1pm. This is a free public talk, all welcome.

University Art Collections play a vital role in the acquisition, presentation and interpretation of Indigenous art to a diverse Australian public. Pauline Williams, Exhibition Coordinator, John Curtin Gallery, and Mark Stewart, Art Curator, Murdoch University, will discuss this responsibility in relation to the curatorial premise of an exhibition they co-curated in 2011 titled 'Evolving Identities – Contemporary Indigenous Art'.

This talk is part of a series of Friday lunchtime conversations focusing on the role of collecting in the Indigenous art sector. For details on further Friday talks refer to the public program at www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions.

The aim of this research is to examine Australian and Malawian students' connections between scientific and cultural knowledge through a story box activity and the production of short films.A total of 39 films were produced by students from Years 7-10 from a regional Aboriginal student group, a multicultural Perth group and a group in Malawi. This presentation will showcase student films, data on student perceptions of scientific and cultural knowledge and evidence on the impact on students of producing and viewing films that connect science and culture.