Ground-breaking work on human lactation by a computer expert and a biochemist from The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious international award - the UK Rank Prize for Nutrition. 

The first awards in Australia to recognise the often unheralded and sometimes criticised work of social workers will be given out in June this year. 

The fine achievements of UWA music students were acknowledged at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2009 Prize Giving Ceremony, held at the Octagon Theatre on 11 May.

Two of Western Australia’s young scientists have been spreading word of their work across Australia via ABC Radio National’s The Science Show.

In early May, Science Show host Robyn Williams interviewed WA’s 2008 Science Student of the Year Jacinta Delhaize and 2008 Young Scientist Dr Ben Corry about their past and future research.

UWA researchers have been awarded more than $1.2 million in US funding for research into the treatment of the devastating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

A powerful spotlight is shining on the Institute of Agriculture (IOA) at The University of Western Australia (UWA), with a long list of prestigious awards, scholarship grants and healthy student enrolments impressing the scientific community, governments and industry. 

The recent prize windfall for three young UWA IOA students at the Young Professionals in Agriculture Forum, hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA and Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, underlined why UWA is the university of choice for undergraduates seeking to excel in agricultural and related natural resource management studies. 

The Faculty wishes to offer our warmest congratulations to both Professor Andrew Deeks and Dr Wenge Liu on being awarded the ‘Fellowship in Teaching and Learning' by the Teaching Fellowship Scheme Committee.

High school students from outer suburbs who aspire to become doctors will have the chance to be given a financial helping hand from a new array of Faculty scholarships established through bequests.

Four registered nurses are pursuing PhD studies this year through the School of Population Health, with the help of substantial external scholarships.