UWA Business School
True social entrepreneurship requires co-operation between the public, private and community sectors, social entrepreneurship expert Dr Alex Nicholls told an audience at The University of Western Australia's Business School.

UWA Business School
The Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team at The University of Western Australia has partnered with Oxfam Australia and the WA Fair Trade Collective to establish the first Fair Trade Pop Up Shop in Australia.

Global miner Rio Tinto and The University of Western Australia have signed a multi-million dollar partnership that will focus on creating a sustainable supply of graduates and expertise for the mining industry.

UWA Business School
Business students at The University of Western Australia are gaining practical experience while assisting local organisations to solve problems and explore new opportunities.

The Business Practicum unit, which is available to undergraduate students who have completed at least half of the units for the major relevant to their project, requires students to spend 100 hours working on an approved  project for an organisation. Upon completion, the unit provides students with one credit towards their degree.

The May issue of Information Services News features the long-awaited opening of the refurbished EDFAA Library.

Access the May issue in PDF (or RTF for screen readers) from the Information Services News page.

Photo by Ian Ferguson

Science alone may not be able to describe every aspect of complex environmental systems, but a little local knowledge gives it a better chance, according to a young researcher at The University of Western Australia.

The Geophysics group at UWA recently blasted away the opposition at an international conference in Brisbane.

Two of the five major awards for best papers went to UWA, which was the only university to win any prizes.

The memory of medical missionary and anti-slavery campaigner Dr David Livingstone will be evoked when a field microscope to detect malaria, tuberculosis, infections caused by HIV/AIDS and other diseases is donated this month to a Malawi mining community.

A disease that affects WA lupin crops will be researched by a student from The University of Western Australia - in Japan.