University News

An international conference focused on the place and role of German language teaching and German studies in the global environment will be held at The University of Western Australia this month.

Foreign Minister Steven Smith, US ambassador-designate Kim Beazley, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett and other leading political, business, academic and media figures will meet at The University of Western Australia next week to debate the geopolitical, economic and social issues confronting our region.

The public is hungry for knowledge of the true dimensions of Australia's climate crisis and what can be done about it without wrecking our economy - a subject to be examined at The University of Western Australia next week.

A team from The University of Western Australia, in partnership with industry group Better Bees of Western Australia, has secured $800,000 to study male fertility in honey and feral bees.

The University of Western Australia has moved a significant step closer to its goal of becoming one of the top 100 universities in the world with the official release today of the foremost international ranking of Universities.

An ambitious research program will be launched tomorrow focused on engaging community action by delivering up-to-date information on the health of the Swan-Canning River Basin to every West Australian with the click of a button.

A student from The University of Western Australia who wants to inspire school students to develop a passion for science has won the 2009 Rhodes Scholarship for Western Australia.

A consortium led by The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University will install Perth's first Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations in early 2010 as part of a research project which has been awarded $229,000 funding under the Australian Research Council's Linkage grant scheme.

The high number of Indigenous children suffering middle ear infections will continue to rise unless urgent action is taken to tackle overcrowding, provide appropriate housing and water supply, adequate access to medical care and education on the issue for parents, according to eminent West Australian paediatric ear, nose and throat specialist Professor Harvey Coates.

Research at The University of Western Australia into the role of family history in preventing certain cancers, heart disease and diabetes is among dozens of UWA projects awarded National Health and Medical Research Council funding.

The University of Western Australia will celebrate a successful decade at its Albany Centre on Monday. 

The 40th anniversary of The University of Western Australia's Octagon Theatre will be celebrated this Saturday.

Busselton/Crawley resident Elena Vettorel is glad she's only acting in the latest production by The University of Western Australia's Graduate Dramatic Society.

World-class research at The University of Western Australia was significantly boosted today with the Federal Government announcing more than $19.5 million for research projects at the University.

A team of researchers from The University of Western Australia, Kings Park and Botanic Garden (KPBG) and the Australian National University is racing the clock to save an orchid unique to Western Australia's south-west.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia have dominated the list of finalists for this year's Western Australian Science Awards.

A postgraduate student and lecturer in mechanical engineering at The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious national scholarship.

Kate Leeming (BPhysEd 1987; DipEd 1988) has set her sights on breaking the cycle of poverty in Africa by cycling 24,000km across the country.

Associate Professor Eugene Ivanov, a physicist from The University of Western Australia, has won a major American Physical Society award for his work on measurement.

The University of Western Australia (UWA) and its Institute of Agriculture continue to play an important role expanding the capacity of Iraqi agriculture and reducing the country's dependence on imported food by training Iraq's brightest and best graduate agriculture students.

An international research team that includes The University of Western Australia has released details of a breakthrough which holds promise of a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), an incurable muscle-wasting disease.

Researchers at The University of Western Australia are investigating whether tea tree oil can prevent the development of potentially disastrous antibiotic resistance.

UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson has been appointed to an expert committee advising the Federal Government on scientific priorities for a multi-million national endowment fund.

How much Australia's next economic boom will affect the sustainability of Perth and other Australian cities will be discussed at a major national conference to be held at The University of Western Australia next month.

Literacy, science and the impact of emotion on child development and learning are some of the issues to be discussed at the Early Years Forum at The University of Western Australia on this Friday 23 October.

A staff member of The University of Western Australia with a passion for saving the planet, Jonathon Thwaites, has been recognised for his leadership and achievements in the WA Department of Environment and Conservation 2009 Environment Awards.

The ‘liquid frontiers' of Islamic Art:   Interaction and exchange in the medieval period is the title of a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia on Tuesday, 20 October.

The University of Western Australia scooped two major Employment and Inclusion Awards at the Diversity@Work Awards announced in Melbourne last night.

Undergraduate medical teaching at The University of Western Australia will be significantly boosted with a $5 million grant from the Federal Government.

A project team that mapped 1500 square kilometres of coastline from the Abrolhos to Esperance has been awarded a 2009 WA Coastal Award for Excellence in Marine Science and Education.

The high standard of teaching at The University of Western Australia has been recognised in the 2009 Australian Awards for University Teaching.

A major breakthrough study, published today in Nature, has provided a complete roadmap of the human epigenome and has major implications for the treatment of human diseases and development of stem-cell based regenerative medicine.

A public lecture series to allow the community to engage with Nobel Laureates from around the world has been named in honour of Professors Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, joint winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2005.

The University of Western Australia will join universities across Australia in glowing pink for a week to mark the official launch of the National Breast Cancer Foundation's (NBCF) annual Pink Ribbon Campaign.

Slow Food hero Carlo Petrini, famous for instigating the eco-gastronomy movement that is sweeping the world, will give a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia during his one-day visit to Perth.

A Winthrop Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious first prize in the British Medical Association book awards' respiratory medicine category.

Deaths from lung cancer are higher than for any other form of cancer, with more than 8,000 Australians diagnosed each year - but the latest technology being demonstrated at The University of Western Australia offers new hope to sufferers.

A new premises for investigating genetic and environmental causes of common human diseases such as cancer, heart disease and depression was launched at The University of Western Australia yesterday.

Two Professors of Anaesthesia at The University of Western Australia have won prestigious first prizes in the ‘Anaesthesia' and ‘Basis of Medicine' categories of the British Medical Association Book Awards.

The University of Western Australia has appointed mathematician and computer scientist Professor Robyn Owens to be its new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).

The University of Western Australia has today sought leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia in a case involving the University's right to protect its investment in intellectual property developed by its staff.

Former journalist and television executive turned Conservative politician Ted Brocklebank will lead a delegation of Scottish MPs delivering a public lecture at The University of Western Australia on Monday October 12, 2009 to mark the first 10 years since devolution.

Runaway climate change, species loss, ecosystem collapse - these predictions for the future are so dire that many people believe nothing can be done to prevent ruination.  But Australian Laureate Professor Richard Hobbs from The University of Western Australia argues that we are not doomed, that there is room for optimism.

A World Health Organisation influenza expert, Professor Anne Kelso, will present this year's Ian Constable Lecture, The 21st Century Pandemic, at The University of Western Australia.

Two teams of chemical engineering students from The University of Western Australia will tomorrow compete against four other finalist teams from around Australia in a competition to design and construct a car powered by a chemical reaction.

East Timor's chronic food shortages are easing, thanks to the development of higher yielding varieties of cassava through the ‘Seeds of Life' project, managed by the Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) at The University of Western Australia (UWA).

Winthrop Professor of Law

Christopher Steytler QC, Parliamentary Inspector of the Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia, has been appointed as a Winthrop Professor of Law at The University of Western Australia.

Eric May, an Associate Professor from The University of Western Australia, has been appointed as the Chevron Chair in Gas Process Engineering.

Developing positive mental health for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is the focus of a key Mental Health Week event, to be opened next week by WA Minister for Mental Health, Dr Graham Jacobs.

The University of Western Australia will be launched in Second Life soon and residents of the popular 3D internet virtual world will be able to walk around campus, attend lectures and enter a competition to design the University's Second Life cultural precinct.