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19 unusual facts about University of Western Australia


Byron Lamont

From 1963 to 1966 he pursued undergraduate studies at the Instituate of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science with majors in Soils, Agronomy and Microbiology.

Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos

He has also been an invited Associate Professor to Harvard University and Professor to the University of Western Australia.

Daryl Foster

As a human movement lecturer at the University of Western Australia, Foster was regularly involved in tests to prove whether bowlers threw deliveries beyond ICC guidelines.

Dennis Rumley

Dennis Rumley is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.

Francis J. Sullivan

He received a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Politics from Curtin University of Technology (1977) and a Diploma of Education from University of Western Australia (1978).

Fred Humphreys

He attended University of Western Australia, where he participated in track and running events.

Geoff Boyce

Boyce represented The University of Western Australia at the 2004 Australian University Games winning a Gold Medal, and was selected in the Green and Gold Hockey team.

Horace Waring

On 1 May 1948, Waring was appointed professor of zoology at the University of Western Australia.

Jawahir Thontowi

His education background is from the Law faculty of the Islamic University of Indonesia and on 1999 graduated his PhD from the University of Western Australia concerning Legal Anthropology.

John Welborn

Welborn grew up in Perth and after gaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and representing the state in 15 senior rugby games moved to Sydney in 1992 to follow his ambition of playing rugby for Australia.

Ng Gim Choo

Mrs. Ng completed her Masters in Education Management from the University of Western Australia in September 2001.

Rachel Kum

Born and bred in Singapore, Rachel graduated in Finance at the University of Western Australia and worked in a hedge fund company trading commodities first and then as a Brand Manager.

Rindos v Hardwick

Rindos v. Hardwick was a landmark case of Internet defamation heard in 1994 in which Western Australian lawyers representing a visiting American academic sought to create a legal precedent by deeming an email sent by Gil Hardwick to have alleged paedophilia against David Rindos, a probationary lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.

Rosamond McKitterick

In 1956 she moved with her family to Western Australia where she completed primary and secondary school and completed an honours degree at the University of Western Australia.

Samuel F. Pickering, Jr.

A Fulbright recipient, Pickering has lectured in classrooms in Jordan and Syria, and has held research posts at the University of Western Australia as well as the University of Edinburgh.

Suchen Christine Lim

This residentship honour was also extended to her at the University of Western Australia in Perth, the Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre in the Scottish Highlands and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.

William Heseltine

He was educated at Richmond Primary School, Christ Church Grammar School, Claremont, Western Australia, and the University of Western Australia, where he received a 1st class BA (Hons) in history.

Yeo Cheow Tong

Yeo was educated at Anglo-Chinese School, before receiving a Colombo Plan Scholarship in 1967 to study at the University of Western Australia, where he received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree.

Zijad Delić

In 2007, he addressed the Fulbright Symposium at the University of Western Australia.


Andrew Lawrence-King

He has served as Senior Visiting Research Fellow for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, studying baroque opera performance customs of the 17th century alongside professor Jane Davidson of the University of Western Australia and as professor of harp and continuo at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen.

Andrew McGowan

He studied classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia (BA 1983), during which time he was a member of the rock band The Triffids, then returning to Melbourne to study theology at Trinity College (BD (Hons) 1986).

Ben Goertzel

Before entering the software industry, he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, including the University of Nevada, City University of New York, the University of Waikato, and the University of Western Australia.

Chan Tze Law

He has lectured at world renown American conducting pedagogue Gustav Meier's graduate studio, and returned twice to the University of Western Australia as Artist-in-Residence.

David Tunley

In May 2010, Lecture Room G.05 in the School of Music at the University of Western Australia was renamed the Tunley Lecture Theatre in his honour.

Doug Cash

Born in Manitoba in Canada, he migrated to Australia in 1923, where he attended Perth Boys' School and the University of Western Australia.

Jane W Davidson

Jane Davidson is a British musicologist and Callaway/Tunley Chair of Music and Coordinator, Postgraduate Studies at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in Perth.

Joel Quartermain

This side project, now called Eskimo Joe, with MacLeod on guitar, Quartermain on drums and guitar, and Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, played its first public performance in August 1997 at the University of Western Australia in a local heat for the National Campus Band Competition, they proceeded to the state finals in Perth and then the nationals in Sydney.

Mike Morwood

Other professional positions he held include: Professorial Fellow Archaeology in the School of Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Wollongong, between 2007 and 2013; Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the University of Western Australia between 2009 and 2010; Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the University of New England, from 2009; Adjunct Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University, from 2009; and Adjunct Professorial Fellow at Padjadrang University, Bandung, from 2010.

Nancy Tyson Burbidge

When Nancy returned to Australia she continued her study of Australian plants through the University of Western Australia, completing her MSc.

Neale Fong

Dr. Fong – who graduated from the University of Western Australia's Graduate School of Management with an MBA in 1996 – has degrees in Medicine and Surgery, and a Masters qualification in Theology.

Philip Le Couteur

Le Couteur then studied experimental psychology at the University of Bonn, Germany until early 1913 when he was appointed lecturer in mental and moral philosophy in the newly established University of Western Australia.

U. Narayan Bhat

He received a B.A. in mathematics (1953) and B.T. in education (1954) from the University of Madras, an M.A. in statistics (1958) from Karnatak University in Dharwar and Ph.D. in Mathematical statistics from the University of Western Australia on the dissertation Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior (1965).

Vincent Serventy

Born in Armadale, Western Australia, the youngest of eight children of migrant Croatian parents, he graduated from the University of Western Australia in geology and psychology.

Vladimir Sitta

He established Terragram, a firm of landscape architects, in 1986, and was a co-founder of Room 4.1.3 in 1998, with Richard Weller, a professor at the University of Western Australia.