Welcome to the first ever issue of the new look Prospects online newsletter. In this issue we have news ranging from the UWA Motorsport Club detailing their most recent triumphs to details of the Orientation Day Festival for new students beginning studies in 2006. For these and more articles just click on the links below.
As always we want to provide the best possible information to our subscribers so if you have some feedback about Prospects please email admissions@uwa.edu.au with the subject line "Prospects Feedback". If there is something about UWA you want to read about in Prospects be sure to let us know.
UWA motorsport triumphs again
The University of Western Australia's world class Motorsport team was awarded 1st place overall performance at the Formula SAE championships held in Melbourne recently. >>more
Spending your future looking into the past
Geographically speaking Australia is part of Asia, but in many ways Australia is still heavily influenced by our old European links. Those links are still popular as a field of study in humanities: so much so that the discipline of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is now available as a Bachelor of Arts course. >>more
WA's first Nobel Prize winners
Two academics with links to UWA have won one of the most coveted prizes in the scientific community: the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Professor Barry Marshall, in a bold move, drank a solution containing the bacteria Helicobacter Pylori to prove his and colleague Doctor Robin Warren's theory that stomach ulcers leading to gastric cancer were caused by the bacteria and not stress or poor diet. >>more
Water resource engineering tackles the water crisis
Right now our water supplies are under increasing pressure from both population growth and weather changes created by global warming and climate change. To manage our current resources and plan for the future requires increasingly innovative engineering solutions to ensure adequate supplies of clean water. >>more
UWA welcomes the class of 2006
Friday 24 February was a day of contrasts: a formal Commencement Ceremony, where the students were officially greeted as Undergraduates by the Vice-Chancellor, followed by the UWA Guild O-Day Fair and Concert. >>more
TER Cut-offs 2006
Want to know the cut-off TERs for this year before the Study at UWA 2007 prospectus is available? >>more
Amendment - Study At UWA 2007 undergraduate course booklet
As you read this the Study at UWA 2007 booklet is being delivered to high schools and into the hands of year 12 students all over the state. On page 63 of the Study at UWA 2007 booklet The Bachelor of Science (three-year degree) does not have a 2006 Minimum TER listed. This is an error and the 2006 Minimum TER should be listed as 82.00. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.If you wished to obtain a copy of the Study at UWA 2007 booklet and you are not a current year 12 student in Western Australia, please contact the Prospective Students Office on 6488 2477 or admissions@uwa.edu.au
