Engineering students from The University of Western Australia who won a national competition with a water filter and a washing machine specially designed for Cambodian conditions will meet Australia's Ambassador to Cambodia on Friday. 

The University of Western Australia has been awarded $2.4 million to help disadvantaged students from the Pilbara and the outer Perth metropolitan area to achieve their dreams of a university education. 

The results of more than four years' research involving almost 3,000 Papua New Guinean children aged from six months to five years - a collaborative effort between The University of Western Australia and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research - have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

An independent review investigating the effectiveness of a publicly funded graphic anti-methamphetamine advertising campaign in the United States has found that the campaign has been associated with many negative outcomes, including increases in the acceptability of drug use.  

The University of Western Australia has appointed Dr Helen Wildy as the new Dean of the Graduate School of Education, replacing Professor Bill Louden who takes up the position of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor early next year. 

The University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Committee for Perth have teamed up to appoint two international experts to lead a project benchmarking the liveability of Perth and its global connectedness. 

Professor Jorg Imberger has been named Western Australian Scientist of the Year in the Premier's Science Awards. 

For most high school students, being keyed up for summer means dusting down the surfboard and investing in a new pair of bathers or boardies.  

The role of The University of Western Australia's authority on all aspects of herbicide resistance from basic biochemical understanding of how plants develop resistance to practical management on-farm, has been expanded.