Winthrop Professor Alex Coram suggests that economic theorists cannot be blamed for the global financial crisis and that, for the situation to improve, we may have to start thinking about things in a radically different way …

At the opening of the Centre for Genetic Epidemiology on 1 October 2009, Winthrop Professor Lyler Palmer spoke of an extraordinary – even transcendent – time in the history of bioscience.  This is an edited version of the speech.

We are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in our ability to understand the causes of common disease, powered by a genomics revolution.

Students from The University of Western Australia have won recognition for design concepts for the redevelopment of Royal Perth Hospital and its health precinct.

The University of Western Australia's Ridgefield Future Farm will be officially opened next week with the aim of integrating cropping, livestock and native ecology and being carbon neutral by 2020.

Changes in marine and atmospheric conditions will have significant effects on Western Australia's coastline, inlets, estuaries and rivers in the next 100 years.

A Western Australian architect who has taught at The University of Western Australia for the past 20 years has been appointed to lead the University's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts as its Dean.

Two Nobel Laureates - one who has an asteroid named after him - will visit The University of Western Australia for the 10th Frontiers of Fundamental Physics Symposium - the first time the international conference has been held in Australia.

Asia has the greatest potential for growth of media markets in the world, according to a panel of international media experts at the In The Zone conference at The University of Western Australia.

A lack of concern about the most dangerous weapons on earth - nuclear weapons - is a major issue in the Asian zone and throughout the world, according to the Emeritus President of the International Crisis Group and Co-Chair of the International Commission for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Gareth Evans.