How can Western Australia take advantage of its resource richness and geographic positioning to lead the rest of Australia in this Asian Century? This is just one of the ‘big' questions on the agenda for November at the IN THE ZONE conference.
The University of Western Australia's Motorsport team achieved another success by claiming 3rd position in the 2009 World Championship for Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), which took place in Hockenheim, Germany, earlier this month.
An academic from The University of Western Australia has co-authored a book that analyses workers' responses to work restructuring in three fridge factories based in three places - Orange in Australia, Changwon in South Korea, and Ezakheni in South Africa - and has won an international prize.
A book that documents the relationship between Western Australia and Japan, published by The University of Western Australia's Westerly Centre, will be launched at Parliament House next week.
The wife of Faculty dental graduate Dr Gary Hewett, who was honoured with an OAM this year for his work with the charity Awareness Cambodia, occasionally reminds him of a couple of things.
Professor Gordon King made significant medical and personal contributions in five major world arenas, namely the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Australia and Africa.
Painting a verbal picture of post-Soviet health care in Tajikistan has earned medical student John van Bockxmeer the Alan Charters Elective Prize for 2009.
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.
