Staff and Student Events

Student events

Feature event

Smartphones and Marine Mammal Conservation: Citizen Science in the Age of the ‘Tricorder’

When: May 23, 2012

Dr Dave Johnston from Duke University – and adjunct at Murdoch – will be presenting the development of a citizen science program that will engage local citizens in both remote and urban regions of Australia to collect high quality data on coastal marine mammals and their habitats using their smartphones and to transmit these data to an online spatially explicit database where their data are mapped and made available to everyone.

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Up and Coming Events

  • Meditation and Buddhism

    When: May 16, 2012

    Every Wednesday from 22nd February, 4 – 5 pm in the Worship Centre with Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Nampur.

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  • Career launch Employability fair

    When: May 17, 2012

    Employers want graduates who can work in teams, communicate effectively and get the job done with intergrity and passion. Find out how you can develop these skills through volunteering,joining your student association or challenging yourself to go beyond the ordinary!

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  • Giving Life After Death: The Posthumous Collection and Use of Gametes

    When: May 17, 2012

    This public forum forms part of the practical component of the undergraduate unit BMS101 and is also open to the public and the general university community.

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  • Weekly Catholic Mass on Campus

    When: May 18, 2012

    A weekly Catholic Mass is held every Tuesday at the Worship Centre

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  • Boer War Debate

    When: May 18, 2012

    Murdoch Law School’s Moot Court Bench students will be debating whether Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock deserve a posthumous pardon. Refreshments and drinks provided after the debate.

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  • Developing the Scalable Open-Access Digital Textbook for Marine Science

    When: May 23, 2012

    Duke University has recently developed a marine science digital textbook: the Cachalot, that employs marine megafauna examples as a pedagogical hook. Cachalot represents a new form of digital textbook, one that is completely open access and populated with current content written by experts in the field. This presentation will be given by Dr David Johnston of Duke University, who is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Cetacean Research Unit, Murdoch.

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  • Open Night – 23 May 2012

    When: May 23, 2012

    Murdoch’s Open Night provides prospective students with the opportunity to speak to academics, explore our facilities and take part in hands-on activities. Recruitment and academic staff will be available to answer any questions about how and why they should study at Murdoch. Light refreshments will be available.

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  • Waste and Recycling Audit – Volunteers Wanted!

    When: May 24, 2012

    Volunteers are needed to help the university improve its waste and recycling management practices on campus, in line with our sustainability commitments. This year’s audit will assess the key recyclables and waste streams from both recycling and waste bins within key buildings on campus.

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  • Complicity, Retaliation and Mass Atrocity

    When: May 24, 2012

    A Public Lecture by Prof. Robert Cribb FAHA, Professor of Asian Politics and History, ANU, presented by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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  • Deloitte Dream Team Competition – Information Session for students from various disciplines

    When: May 24, 2012

    Dream Team is an inter-university competition run by Deloitte Perth designed to engage and provide real life skills and benefits to university students from various disciplines.

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