We will screening a selection of films from SCINEMA – the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere. SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to inspire the young, satisfy the curious, explain the baffling and ask the impossible. The screening is open to Curtin staff and students.
Topic: Health and Medical
Curtin Online Science Quiz
An online science quiz for Curtin students that’s open for 4 days. $100 for the winner and merchandise for the wooden spooner.
Curtin Pub Science Quiz
A science quiz at the Tavern for Curtin staff.
Our Lady’s Assumption School – Science Fair
To ensure our whole school engagement and exploration of science concepts, we will be have a science fair. Our Year 6 students have researched and selected experiments that they will be independently demonstrating to their fellow students from Kindergarten to Year 5. These experiments will showcase a multitude of science understandings and have been selected…
Collaborate to Innovate Expo
Touch it – Solve it – Feel it – Work it! Guests will walk into an experiential maze of interactive activations designed to both inform and delight. Suitable for all ages and STEM acumen, the expo will allow attendees to see firsthand the ideas that will change the future. The Collaborate to Innovate EXPO will…
Collaborate to Innovate Expo
Touch it – Solve it – Feel it – Work it! Guests will walk into an experiential maze of interactive activations designed to both inform and delight. Suitable for all ages and STEM acumen, the expo will allow attendees to see firsthand the ideas that will change the future. The Collaborate to Innovate EXPO will…
Sydney Science Festival 2023
Sydney Science Festival is an exciting and accessible program of science events presented by Powerhouse Museum in August. It aims to inspire curiosity about what science is capable of – and criticism too – in a series of interactive performances, talks and exhibits across the city. This year’s festival theme Trace explores the many marks…
Understanding Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and a rapidly growing medical crisis. All is not lost, says Dr Caitlin Finney, a neuroscientist and researcher in the Neuroinflammation Research group at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) where she is currently studying the role of genetic errors, or mutations, in the development…
Cell Therapy
In recent years engineered immune cells have revolutionised the treatment of blood cancers. They have potential to do the same to nearly every facet of medicine. However, there are many challenges to overcome before immune therapy can achieve this, particularly the complexity and cost of individualised treatments. Over the last two decades, the Westmead Cellular…
Mapping the Human Brain
The ability to effectively treat and maintain mental health disorders is an international medical challenge. Currently we do not understand the biological cause of the cognitive and emotional symptoms that define these disorders. We know that the brain changes over the course of a lifespan and that altered brain growth or rates of decline are…