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Future Fellows to ignite passion for research

Friday, 27 July 2012

Using plants to discover new drugs, digital technologies to transfer Indigenous knowledge, and molecules to build digital memory are just some of the projects at The University of Western Australia that attracted more than $4.5 million in raw funding from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme.

Associate Professor Rob Cover

Same-sex marriage not the answer: expert

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Same-sex marriage and anti-bullying policies will not prevent the high rate of suicide among young gay people, according to a researcher at The University of Western Australia.

Assistant Professor Carolyn Harris Johnson

Family homicide expert dispels myths on ABC Radio

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Keeping the community informed and dispelling myths around family homicide after separation - so that danger signs may be recognised and crimes prevented - is the aim of a social worker and researcher at The University of Western Australia.

Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger

Acclaimed mathematician celebrates 36 years at UWA

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

A mathematician who is in the top one per cent of highly-cited mathematicians in the world, Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger, will present the Annual Lecture of the UWA Historical Society next week.

Sara Macliver

Nine German Arias

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Handel's Nine German Arias (Neun Deutsche Arien) were written in around 1725, in somewhat mysterious circumstances.  We do not know the singer for whom they were composed, nor the exact instrumentation originally used; they are scored for soprano, another treble instrument, and basso continuo.

David Childs

When things get brassy

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

A father and son who are world-renowned euphonium and brass band specialists will play at The University of Western Australia this week.

Shipwreck becomes time capsule

Thursday, 5 July 2012

The wreck of a 16 metre colonial ship - the Clarence - in Victoria's Port Phillip Bay has been transformed into a buried ‘time capsule' under the sea.

Ignore oceans at our peril: Expert

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

If we ignore our close emotional attachment to the ocean, then the future is dire for our species and for our planet.

Cullity Gallery

Mid-Year Exhibition on now

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

The Mid-Year Exhibition of student work is on at UWA's Cullity Gallery until Wednesday 11 July, 2012.

Stranger than Fiction

Monday, 2 July 2012

Albany booklovers were reminded of the oft-repeated saying that the truth is stranger than fiction during a lecture at the Albany Town hall by Susan Swingler, step-daughter of one of Australia's best loved authors Elizabeth Jolley.