University News

Wednesday 9 December, 6 - 7.30pm

Once the books have been closed, the study timetable taken down from the wall and the exams finally over, it's tempting to move straight into holiday mode and not give another thought about your results or university preferences until after Christmas. Whilst it's important to take the time to celebrate the end of school and enjoy your holidays, we'd like to make sure you are as prepared as possible for when your results finally are released- that's why we'd like to invite you to our ‘Making the Most of Your TER' information session.

Here are some tips about admission and enrolment, orientation and starting uni to help make the transition to university life a success.

New courses in Sport and Recreation Management, Food Science and Adult Sleep Science provide students with the opportunity to specialise in one of these areas after the third year of a science degree.

The Science Experience is a three day program of events for students about to enter Year 10. It will be held at UWA from the 19th to the 21st of January 2010. The program will give you a unique insight into the science courses and facilities available at UWA, the multitude of career options as a science graduate, as well as the opportunity to experience first hand what university life is like.

Staff at the UWA Admissions Centre and Prospective Students Office are available to answer questions and provide advice about admission into UWA courses. Please note the alteration of our opening hours during the Christmas and New Year period.

Read on to find out more about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

Among the other fantastic things taking place on Open Day, UWA will be playing host to some special guest speakers who will be talking about a variety of issues including Obama, astronomy and the global financial crisis.

For this issue Prospects asked Conor Bush, a recent Engineering and Arts graduate, to tell us about her combined course, why she chose to study it and the opportunities she got involved in as a student at UWA.

If you're a student currently in Year 12 you probably have many things to consider at the moment—exams, study, holidays, graduation, post-school options, to name a few! If you are thinking about university study next year, there is something else we recommend you think about—applying for scholarships.

Read on to find out more about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

Would you like to know how our universe started? Are you interested in how stars work, or how our universe has developed the properties we see today?

If you answered yes to these questions and you're a current WA TEE student in Year 11 or 12, check out UWA's ‘A Day in the Life of an Astronomy Student'.

The UWA Business School is offering all Western Australian high school students the chance to be involved in a challenging competition with exciting prizes, including a laptop or an iPod. If you have an inquiring mind and a knack for constructing compelling arguments then UWA's UNIfy Essay Competition is for you.

UWA Astronomy and Astrophysics student Jacinta Delhaize is Western Australia's 2008 Science Student of the Year.  In this issue we hear about why Jacinta is so passionate about Astronomy and the unusual places her study has taken her...

A team of Health Science students and staff from UWA recently travelled to a remote area of India to promote the benefits of rainwater harvesting and to get stuck in with some practical help. What's more, they stayed, despite the Mumbai attacks occurring the day after they arrived.

UWA graduate Steve Vigilante's work as a landscape architect has taken him all over regional Western Australia from the Kimberley, to Lancelin and Exmouth. He has worked on projects that have required him to plan National Parks spanning thousands of hectares, right down to the intricate details of designing park furniture.

Present and future climate change and environmental issues are among the foremost scientific challenges presently facing the global community. UWA is now offering a new Science major, Climate and Environment. This is an exciting area of study for those who want to become leaders in their community on environmental problems.

Come and hear about the flexible study options and exciting career opportunities available to you with a science degree from UWA. We will be holding careers and information evenings on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd of June.

Read on to find out about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

Year 10 Girls: Have you ever wanted to experience life as a university student? Are you interested in engineering, computing or maths? Then come and take part in one of the UWA Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) days during the April school holidays!

Come along to The University of Western Australia for Out there!, an exhibition focussed on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA radio telescope (which will cost around $3 billion) will be up to 50 times more sensitive than present-day instruments and will revolutionise our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe.

The Prospective Students Office is running a series of campus tours this year, aimed at prospective students who would like to find out more about entry requirements and courses at UWA whilst taking in the beautiful gardens and buildings at the Crawley campus.

Read on to find out about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences offers seven scholarships to commencing first-year students. Applications are open now for students who are applying for entry into any of the courses offered by the faculty in 2009.

UWA has been declared overall winner of the 13th National Indigenous Tertiary Education Student Games held in Perth in September.

Over the three days of competition, the teams competed for championship cups in netball, basketball, touch, volleyball and fly, a traditional Noongar game that involves running through sticks placed on the ground.

The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OZCLO) is a competition for high school students that UWA is organising in 2009.

Linguistics is about the nature of human language. It's concerned with what languages have in common and how they are different, including how they are structured, how they are learnt, how they are used in different cultures and societies, and how they change over time.

A number of UWA students studying Architecture and Landscape Architecture have recently had the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in the ‘real world'. Fourteen Landscape Architecture students returned from India recently after starting work on plans for the gardens around the newly completed Australian High Commission's Chancery building in New Delhi, whilst a number of first year Architecture students have also put their skills into practise in a way that was enjoyed by the wider community for the Kings Park Festival.

From 2009, science and mathematics (including statistics) have been classified as "National Priority" areas by the Commonwealth Government. This represents a big reduction in fees (student contributions) for students undertaking studies in science and mathematics.

If you want to work with children and to play a pivotal role in their lives, you may want to consider becoming a primary school teacher.

In this issue we hear from Oliver Jones, a UWA Dental Science graduate, about his experiences working as a volunteer in Vietnamese orphanages:

Since finishing uni I have worked privately as a dentist in rural and city settings, but by far the most rewarding experience for me is being a member of an aid organisation. Being part of an aid team is great, because you get the opportunity to help people that have a lesser capacity to help themselves... people who have nothing and the last thing they can afford to worry about is their teeth.

Yiyun Loei, a UWA music student, was the only Australian selected to perform at a recent major international piano competition held in the Czech Republic.

The Leoš Janácek International Piano Competition is for pianists under 25, and is held every four years at the Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.

Is it art or science?  Do I drink it or wear it?

A dress made from fermented red wine by scientist Gary Cass in the laboratories at UWA was the centrepiece of National Science Week in Sydney. The dress has also been exhibited at the Venice Biennale fringe festival.

Inspiration for the cellulose garments came when Gary noticed a skin-like layer covering a vat of wine at his friend's winery.

Read on to find out more about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

The University of Western Australia's Expo 2008 is gearing up to be the University's most informative and exciting ride yet. It's a great opportunity for prospective students and their families to visit UWA and see what goes on inside a world class university. The expo is being held on Sunday 10 August between 9am and 4pm.

Students who are entering university in 2009 have a variety or new courses and new majors within existing courses to choose from. Climate and Environment, and Computer Science will be available as majors in the Bachelor of Science, and there are four new majors within the Bachelor of Computer Science and the Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences. Primary teaching will be offered as a combined degree at UWA for the first time in 2009.

The University of Western Australia is proud of its commitment to the promotion, recognition and reward of secondary school students who have demonstrated excellence within their lives- whether it is through academic studies, involvement in extra-curricular activities or community work. There are a variety of awards and scholarships on offer for students from all backgrounds who are interested in studying at UWA in 2009.

The Prospective Students Office is now hosting Sunset Campus Tours. Running after office hours, these tours give you and your family the chance to come down and explore the campus, find out more about the university and get a picture of what life is like for our students. The tour will include a stop at the Prospective Students and Admissions Office where you will be able to collect information and course brochures, and speak to one of our advisers about courses on offer and the admissions process.

The University of Western Australia's Motorsport team has been crowned the 2008 World Champions for Formula SAE, having won the international competition for a student designed race car.

The 12-strong team, all UWA students, edged out German teams from the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Munich, and more than 100 other teams from around the world, to win the competition held in the US city of Michigan in May.

For this issue Prospects spoke to two students who are studying different courses within the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Taya Clarke is studying Animal Science. She tells us about her course and what it is like studying in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UWA. She also has some advice for anyone considering a similar field of study...

For this issue Prospects spoke to two students who are studying different courses within the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Fiona Kelly is a fourth-year Agricultural Science student. We asked her tell us about her course and why she chose to study it, life as a uni student, what she plans to do when she graduates, and what advice she has for anyone considering what to study at university...

The UWA Albany Centre is holding its Open Day on Thursday August 20 from 10am until 1pm and 4pm to 6pm. School groups and members of the community will be able to tour the Centre during these times.  Faculty and admissions staff visiting from Perth for the day will be available to answer any questions.

Read on to find out more about upcoming events and important dates for prospective students.

Elizabeth Shaw, a law student at The University of Western Australia has been chosen to represent Australian youth at the United Nations.

As an Australian Youth Representative, she will present the concerns of Australian youth to the UN headquarters in New York. Ms Shaw, 24, will travel to each Australian state and territory to meet young people, politicians, youth organisations and bureaucrats to identify issues relevant to young Australians.

In August she will meet  fellow European Youth representatives in Europe.

The annual PROSH newspaper has once again been successfully delivered to the community of Perth by UWA students to support local charities.

Every March, a team of dedicated writers get together during a series of writers' nights to produce the PROSH paper. Here, the students dissect recent papers looking for current affairs, photos, and celebrity scandals to mock. At the same time, the Uni becomes abuzz with PROSH fever.

More than 75 girls from all over the state recently had the opportunity to spend a day as a university student at UWA. The Women in Science and Engineering initiative is aimed at increasing inclusivity and participation of females in Engineering, Computing and Mathematics through awareness, information and support.

In this issue we speak to Melissa Heth, an archaeology student who lives at St. Thomas Moore College, about uni life and living at college.

Melissa also talks about the amenities, the Student Club, support services, why she chose UWA and her course, as well as an host of other topics.

Scientists begin with what is known and try to go beyond that point to extend the boundaries of human knowledge.

This means science is for those who have a sense of adventure, a desire to explore, to think creatively, to get to the root of things. As a scientist you will study the nature of the universe, its properties, the life that exists within it, and the laws that govern the behaviour of all matter.

The University of Western Australia is home to two science faculties, the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences and the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Psychology is a fascinating and wide-ranging discipline that examines the way people think, feel, perceive and act.

The study of psychology is relevant to many other areas of study and provides a wealth of different career opportunities. In this issue we speak to Rochelle Jones, a psychology graduate from UWA.

Find out about important dates and upcoming events for high school students and anyone who wants to know more about going to uni.