Ever increasing concerns over the future of Western Australia’s energy supply are being brought to the fore. With the current energy climate of rising costs, increasing demands and declining production of conventional oil and gas reserves, the need to look to unconventional alternatives such as “t (...)
9:30 - EVENT - EXSCITEMENT : A free National Science Week event for selected high schools
Australian of the Year (2005), Clinical Professor Fiona Wood who is also Director of the Royal Perth Hospital’s Burns Unit and Premier’s Fellow, Professor Peter Quinn, School of Physics, UWA, will be the two key note speakers at EXSCITEMENT, a National Science Week event for high schools.
12:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Healthier, Happier, Stronger, Longer : Public Lecture. WA Health experts provide practical ways to combat age related diseases.
Be amongst the first in Perth to hear about the centre’s latest research findings. Discover practical ways to combat age related diseases and how to implement prevention strategies in to your daily routine. Presentations will be made by the Centre’s experts, who are leaders in the field of health (...)
16:00 - EVENT - Overview of dietary practice in the development of immune tolerance : CWR Seminar Series
There has been a clear and worrying increase in a diverse range of allergic and autoimmune diseases, which are associated with an underlying failure of immune tolerance (to allergens and self-antigens). Development of immune tolerance is a critical process in early life. The rising rates of (...)
17:30 - SEMINAR - IHS Seminar: Health : An interdisciplinary approach to the topic of human health
Is there an evolutionary or physiological basis for the psalm’s “three score years and ten” summation of human lifespan? Historically, what have been the threats to human health? Human beings now have vast medical knowledge and skills, and many diseases that would have killed us last century are (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Acceptable Levels? The threat and use of violence in British Central Africa, 1945-65
This lecture considers the use and the threat of violence in the British territories of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the two decades after the end of the Second World War. It will suggest that, although this period was relatively peaceful, the threat of violence was a constant (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Why Darwin Matters : Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Battle for Science and Religion
***Special school's presentation for National Science Week 2008***
Ever wonder why people believe in UFOs and alien abductions, mind-reading and psychics who talk to the dead, reincarnation and life after death, out-of-body and near-death experiences, urban legends and satanic panics (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - What in the World Does Ethics Have to do with Health Research?:Some Musings on Whether Morality is Local or Global
Health research is now a global enterprise. For example, the vast majority of studies that test new drugs are funded by the private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies) and an increasing number of studies are funded by philanthropies and charities. National and international (...)
Friday 22
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Neuro 2008 : A free one-day information session.
You are invited to a free one-day information session for people with a Neurological disorder, Carers and Health Professionals. The topics being discussed include Stroke, Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimers, Epilepsy and Spinal Injury. Morning tea and lunch will be provided. RSVPs (...)
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - SymbioticA Seminar > National Science Week : SymbioticA- The art and science collaborative research laboratory
An introduction to the work undertaken at SymbioticA the first research laboratory that enables artists to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department.
SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, is an artistic laboratory dedicated to the research (...)
18:00 - Book Sale - Save the Children Fund Book Sale : The annual mega-book sale
Meet Melbourne-based guest curator Andrew Gaynor who will discuss each of the artists included in the exhibition and their importance to the notion of modernism.
Tuesday 26
13:00 - EVENT - Inner Balance : Free DVD presentations featuring the message of Prem Rawat
Prem Rawat is an international speaker on the topic of inner peace. There will be a DVD presentation each Tuesday from 1-2pm in Social Science Building Room G210. All interested are invited to attend this free event. For more information email jgilbert@global.net.au or visit www.whoUare.org
19:00 - DINNER - Coffee Connoisseur Dinner : Coffee Lovers- you won't want to miss it!
Coffee lovers will not want to miss The Club Restaurant’s first Coffee Connoisseur Dinner. Club Executive Chef Tony Ouschan has created an innovative three-course menu featuring coffee infused cuisine. Lino Costanza of Vittoria Coffee will provide an insight into the fine art of coffee production (...)
Wednesday 27
18:10 - EVENT - The end of French Colonialism: The Algerian War
From the establishment of Port Royal in what is now Canada in 1605, France's colonial empire ebbed and webbed in size and significance over the following centuries
If the French empire has a birth date it also has a date when its death became inevitable: 1954, when the French lost the (...)
Global fishing catches have been in decline since the eighties and many stocks have collapsed completely. 90% of all the big fish in the ocean have vanished. Some scientists estimate that all current fisheries will have gone in our lifetimes from overfishing and destructive fishing methods. The (...)
Friday 29
7:30 - CONCERT - Born to Sing - Make a Difference : Presented by the Born to Sing Choir and Rotary Club of Morley
Enjoy a fun filled and uplifting evening of song at UWA Winthrop Hall, Friday 29 August.
Musical Director Martin Meader - special guests Courtney Murphy, SHINE and the Hot Nut Club.
Part proceeds to Rotary Cord Blood Bank.
This is a General Admissions event. Seating is unreserved from BOCS (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Office Friday: School of Environmental Systems Engineering + EWB : Networking Event for First Year Engineers
Office Fridays are lunch time events for those studying first year engineering to network with each other, Faculty staff and representatives from industry.
Each Office Friday is hosted by a different Engineering School. The School for today's event is the School of Environmental Systems (...)
