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A NASA astronaut, a world-leading astronomer, and WA Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley AO hosting a "science café for girls", are some of the headline events at The University of Western Australia as it celebrates National Science Week from August 15-23.

The University will offer a range of science events for schools to excite a new generation's interest in science, as well as public lectures for a broader audience.

Astronaut Megan McArthur's first mission into space, in May this year, was to help to repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope.  On the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble, she clocked 12 days and 21 hours, travelling 5,276,000 miles in 197 Earth orbits.  Next week, she will talk to students and host a public lecture at UWA, co-hosted by Scitech and the WA Government.

Australian National University Professor Charley Lineweaver will pose the question Are we alone in the Universe? to school students and the general public in two lectures at UWA next week.  A world-leading astronomer, Professor Lineweaver is the coordinator of ANU's Planetary Science Institute and will deliver the 2009 Australian Institute of Physics De Laeter Youth lecture.

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK AT UWA

Dr Megan McArthur, NASA astronaut, Repairing the Hubble Space Telescope - an Astronaut's Experience.
Free public lecture, no booking required. Friday 14 August, 6-7.30pm, UWA Social Sciences Lecture Theatre , Hackett entrance 1 (Years 8-12 schools event is earlier the same day)

Professor Garry Lee, Professor of Food Science at UWA, Bayliss Youth Lecture 2009 - Attack of the killer tomatoes and soylent green: what science has done with food .
Free public lecture, no booking required. Monday 17 August 7-8.30pm, Wilsmore lecture theatre, Hackett entrance 2.

Professor Charley Lineweaver, Is There More Than One Universe?
Free public lecture, no booking required. Wednesday 19 August 6-8pm , Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, Hackett entrance 1 (Years 10-12 schools event, the De Laeter Youth Lecture, is the following day)

Science Café for Girls ( hosted by WA Chief Scientist and UWA Prof Lyn Beazley AO and WAs top female scientists). Schools event for female students, years 9-11 (event fully booked). Friday August 21, 10-11.30am. Molecular and Chemical Sciences building, Hackett entrance 2.

Media references

Jenni Wallis (UWA Life and Physical Sciences)  (+61 8)  6488 3263
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716