Perth researchers are using National Dementia Awareness Week* to encourage people who care for someone diagnosed with Alzheimer's to take part in groundbreaking research. 

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.

A sensitive barometer and an inspiring political model of international cooperation, Antarctica is the subject of a free public lecture to be delivered by Antarctic traveler Professor Tom Griffiths at The University of Western Australia.

A disabled student who left her wheatbelt hometown of Kununoppin to study at The University of Western Australia is among more than 1,300 graduands to be awarded degrees during the spring graduation series starting on Monday.

Dennis Haskell, English and Cultural Studies Professor at The University of Western Australia, is the new Chair of the Australia Council Literature Board.

The University of Western Australia's reputation for research excellence in radio astronomy, fundamental physics, molecular genetics and offshore engineering technologies has been recognised with the awarding of ten prestigious national Future Fellowships.

The University of Western Australia is leading the State in recycling as the first West Australian University to sign up for a national program, Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin.

A team of West Australian researchers have made a breakthrough which has the potential to lead to development of drugs to reverse effects of a devastating childhood disease.

The newly appointed Director of The University of Western Australia's Cultural Precinct, Professor Ted Snell, will outline the future of the precinct when he is guest speaker at UWA Convocation's next meeting.