Can the movement of an audience through a mechanical forest help to calm down cultured nerve cells in a remote laboratory?

UWA Publishing is delighted to have three writers with 'first' books in the Brisbane Writers' Festival in September.

A NASA astronaut, a world-leading astronomer, and WA Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley AO hosting a "science café for girls", are some of the headline events at The University of Western Australia as it celebrates National Science Week from August 15-23.

In what could be a world first, the launch of a real-life art exhibition at The University of Western Australia will be held simultaneously with a launch of the same exhibition in the 3D virtual world of Second Life.

Organised crime, AIDS, piracy, food security, access to medicines and the digital divide are some of the compelling topics to be discussed at a forum at The University of Western Australia this week.

The Great Southern Development Commission welcomed twenty-five postgraduate students to the Great Southern last Friday. The students, from Africa, Europe, South Asia, the USA and Australia, are currently visiting the UWA Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management in Albany, to undertake a two week program studying water issues in the Great Southern as part of the International WaterCentre’s Master of Integrated Water Management Program.

Stephen Hopper, director of the world heritage-listed Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, UK, will return to his alma mater to deliver the annual George Seddon lecture.

The question of whether bioenergy is a viable option will be discussed at The University of Western Australia next week.