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The University of Western Australia, one of the leading science research universities in the world, is bringing its Science for our Future Festival to Singapore.

More than 5,000 Singaporean students have graduated from UWA and the message at the Science for our Future Festival is: society needs more science graduates to tackle the big issues confronting our planet.

The Festival will be an exciting and engaging mix of talk show, audio-visual and outrageous science experiments, hosted by professional science communicator Sarah Lau.

The presenters are world leaders in areas of research, industry and government including:

Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall, former WA Premier, and former Australian Federal Health Minister Professor Carmen Lawrence , and winner of the 2010 ATSE Clunies Ross Award Medical Physicist Professor Tim St Pierre as well as UWA's Chair in Agriculture, Professor Kadambot Siddique and Dean of Sciences, Professor Tony O'Donnell.

The University of Western Australia looks forward to bringing this event to Raffles Institute and Ngee Ann Polytechnic and its students and staff with the support of the Australian Government through Australian Education International and Austrade, IDP Education, Taylors College and Perth Education City.

Science for our Future Festival schedule:

• Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 12 noon - 5pm at Ngee Ann Polytechnic
• Thursday, 28 July 2011, 12 noon - 5pm at Raffles Institution
• Friday, 29 July 2011, 12 noon - 3pm at A*STAR.

Media references

Shaun Wellbourne-Wood (UWA Science for our Future Festival)  (+61 8)  6488 3620
Janine MacDonald (UWA Public Affairs)  (+61 8)  6488 5563  /  (+61 4) 32 637 716