claremont campus front view

2005
UWA academic Professor Barry Marshall and Emeritus Professor Robin Warren, a pathologist at Royal Perth Hospital, are awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori. 

2014
Forrest Research Foundation established following one of the largest ever philanthropic donations in Australian history, of $65 million by Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

2016
Professor David Blair leads team of UWA scientists as part of an international project team to detect gravitational waves for the first time in history.

2019
UWA graduate Akshay Venkatesh wins Fields Medal (referred to as the Nobel Prize for mathematics).

2020
Completion of the Bilya Marlee building – meaning River of the Swan – that places Indigenous studies at the heart of our campus, and the EZONE UWA Student Hub, which will deliver a world-class learning space for engineering and mathematical sciences students, researchers, and industry.

UWA becomes one of 11 organisations to be awarded an internationally recognised Athena SWAN Bronze Award for commitment to gender diversity in STEMM subjects.

3,000 units are moved online in just two weeks to offer continuity and support for students during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.