Award-winning Australian novelist Robert Drewe is one of several leading writers who will help The University of Western Australia launch its 2013 Centenary celebrations this weekend with a two-day Writers' Corner at Winthrop Hall.

Is WA's ageing population being disadvantaged by laws governing housing and accommodation?

This is the question raised by researchers at The University of Western Australia who want to talk to seniors, carers and people involved in aged care to find out.

The United Nations aims to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land world-wide by 2020 - but restoration ecologists at The University of Western Australia warn this will prove to be a significant challenge unless people understand it will take more than simply planting trees.

An internationally renowned professor and asbestos diseases specialist from The University of Western Australia has been recognised in the 2013 Australia Day honours for his outstanding commitment both to medicine and the community.

The power of two million candles will transform landmark Winthrop Hall into a panoramic spectacle of light and sound to launch LUMINOUSnight, a free one-night pageant of art and culture to inaugurate an event-filled 2013 Centenary Year at The University of Western Australia.

Millions of people in developing countries may benefit from a breakthrough in chickpea farming thanks to an international project involving a researcher from The University of Western Australia.

The University of Western Australia's campus is often described as one of the world's most beautiful - and an eminent UWA historian has written a book about its landmark buildings.

People with more liquor outlets in their neighbourhood have higher levels of harmful drinking and worse mental health than those who live further away from such outlets, according to new research at The University of Western Australia.

The University of Western Australia has maintained a steady rate of undergraduate first-round offers to students in its 2013 Centenary year, following last year's record and the successful introduction of UWA's flexible new courses.