TechNet 2009 Conference (25-27 November 2009)
Tours
Tour 1-University of Western Australia
Walk through stunningly beautiful university campus. The tour will be lead by Mr. Terry Larder, UWA Visitors Information Centre
E de Clarke Earth Science Museum. Earth: a small rocky planet and our home. How much do you know about it? The tour will be lead by Mrs. Jenny Bevan, Museum senior curator.
The Berndt Museum of Anthropology. The Berndt Museum holds extensive collections of Australian Aboriginal art and Aboriginal cultural materials, as well as collections from Melanesia, Asia and South-East Asia. The tour will be lead by Ms Barbara Matters and Dr John Stanton
Time: November 25; 14.00 – 17.00
Cost: Free
Tour 2-Curtin & Murdoch Universities
Tour 2 will journey to two universities: Curtin and Murdoch
CURTIN
The Curtin tour will include a visit to the John Curtin Gallery and Curtin Aquatic Research Laboratories.
John Curtin Gallery. One of Western Australia's major public art galleries and one of the largest and best equipped university galleries in the country, the John Curtin Gallery is located at the Bentley campus. We will have showing an exhibition called 'Art in the age of nanotechnology'. The unique works developed for art in the age of nanotechnology will operate at the intersection of art, science, technology, demonstrating innovative examples of contemporary art and scientific collaboration.
Curtin Aquatic Research Laboratories (CARL) The Curtin Aquatic Research Laboratories (CARL) comprises several facilities based at Technology Park in Bentley, Perth, which support the undergraduate, postgraduate and aquatic research programs within the Department of Applied Biosciences. The backbone of the facility consists of three main re-circulation systems - seawater, freshwater and inland saline water. The tour will be lead by Mr Simon Longbottom.
MURDOCH
The tour will focus at the main university campus, located at Murdoch. You will be shown the general campus and explore the Environmental Technology Center (ETC).
The aim of the ETC is to research, develop and demonstrate environmental technologies, conduct education and training, provide consultancy services to industry, and raise community awareness of environmental technologies. Its facilities are open to local industries wishing to test and monitor products within the university infrastructure
Time: November 25; 14.00 – 17.00
Cost: $5.00
Tour 3-The University of Notre Dame
The tour is around the historic west end of Fremantle where many old buildings have been given a facelift and seamlessly converted to the teaching, social and administrative facilities of Australia’s only private Catholic University. Included are St Teresa’s library, the Holy Spirit Chapel, the Old Court House and the Drill Hall, the School of Education (formerly His Majesty’s Hotel), the Doreen McCarthy and the Helen Court Nursing laboratories, the School of Arts and Sciences laboratories, the Chancellery (formerly Fairweathers Hotel) and the newly completed Health Sciences building.
Time: November 25; 14.00 – 17.00
Cost: $5.00
Tour 4-Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University was named after the first woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament and appears on the fifty dollar note. The University has two metropolitan campuses in Mount Lawley and Joondalup and also serves Western Australia’s South West region from a campus in Bunbury, 200 km south of Perth. The tour will focus at the main headquarters located at Joondalup and will showcase the new state of the art Nursing facilities in the Health and Wellness building including demonstration wards, anatomy museum and simulation suites as well as sampling the various types of beers produced at the University Brewery.
Time: November 25; 14.00 – 17.00
Cost: $5.00