UC EVENTS

The Renewables Innovation Hub, Entry 29 and The ACT Government with the support of Energy Lab, RDA and SERREE will bring you the opportunity to learn, network, collaborate and enjoy a day of activities with Environmental and Renewable Leaders of the ACT community.Become a thought-leader and support the ACT efforts to fight climate change through innovation and community participation. Come as a volunteer, showcase your idea or just participate on the day!   

Trivia is back and we are kicking it off for the semester in a big way!We will be quizzing you on all things general knowledge, getting your brain exercised and ready in time for semester 2! There will be free pizza and hot chips provided to get your bellies full and the brain thinking ??Bar service available ??Reserving you team is recommended by posting into the discussion with names of team members :) 

To celebrate the release of new single, Everything Is Better Without You, the reigning queen of pop will prowl the country for a national tour this June and July. Her biggest headline tour to date, Puru will joined on the road by special guest Kinder.

Bring out your adventure side with FREE Rock Climbing on campus from 10-3How high can you climb before slipping?? Make sure you check out Market day running in the Refectory to meet and the clubs and societies on campus

The BIGGEST and the BEST Market Day of the Semester!This is a must attend event for all students especially those new to UC. Get to know all the clubs and societies on campus and score some free stuff along the wayFree Rock climbing happening on the concourse from 10-3PM

Join the Alumni Team for a one hour lunch time webinar to explore why it is important for you to invest time and energy on a LinkedIn platform. You will learn what a 'best in class' LinkedIn profile looks like. You will learn how to grow a valuable network. You will learn LinkedIn marketing techniques that will help you 'find your voice' and stand out from the crowd. Engagement is the key to success on LinkedIn and with some basic 101 LinkedIn marketing training you can quickly grow your professional brand. 

KIAN burst into the hearts and minds of Australia after winning last year’s triple j Unearthed High competition. He further cemented his arrival with #20 spot in triple j’s 2018 Hottest 100 for his breakout track ‘WAITING’, included on forthcoming EP, Bliss. Bliss isn’t just the title track of Kian’s debut EP. It’s the lens through which this fresh global talent sees the world.

Nintendo Switches have arrived at UC and it's time for their big debutWe will be set up in the Refectory from 10-3pm for you to challenge your mates at who has the superior gaming skillsREMEMBER, there is nothing like some friendly competition to make some new buddies There will be Nintendo favourites; Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros

Following the release of their infectious new track 'Jelly Fish', Slowly Slowly have announced their huge celebratory tour. Fresh outta Splendour in the Grass, the boys will be coming to party at UC Hub during semester 2 O-Week on August 1.   Tickets on sale Thursday May 9 at 9am. 

Nature needs half; a new deal for nature; natural capital; transformative change; ecosystem services; natures contributions to people: just some of the confusing ecobabble facing politicians in the lead-in to the Convention on Biological Diversity CoP in 2020. But rather than scramble for new things, we already have the tools to craft better ways to deal with biodiversity, we are just not using them well or effectively. Focusing on Natura 2000, urban ecological infrastructure, the Australian Landcare program, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and community conserved areas, and drawing on the positive messages in the IPBES Global Assessment, I argue that an integrated approach with existing tools can reach a global biodiversity balance by 2030 – without invoking confusing or unreachable targets. Speaker:Peter Bridgewater is an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Applied Ecology and the Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis, at the University of Canberra. Peter is currently the Chair for the Australian Working Group on Biosphere Reservesand the Australian national delegate for theIntergovernmental Coordinating Council for the Man and the Biosphere Programme, UNESCO. He has published over 250 papers and presented at many major scientific conferences. 

Odette floored us when she supported The Cat Empire at the Refec last year. We're over the moon to announce that she'll be returning to UC for her own headline date, taking centre stage on our massive Semester 2 O-Week Program.  The artist behind the stunning tracks ‘Watch Me Read You’ and ‘Take It To The Heart’ will blow you away with her honest, powerful lyrics and striking vocals.

The University of Canberra Wunderkammer Exhibition is a display of objects, works of art and decorative items from across the different University Collections held on campus and brought together in a manner to resemble the origins of modern museums. About the exhibitionThe University of Canberra Collections consist of the Art Collection, Matthias Geological Collection, Ecology Wet and Dry Specimens Collection, Indigenous Teaching Collection, Australian National Museum of Education, Rare Books Collection, Nursing Historical Collection and the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature. The exhibition features 50 items of significance from across all collections and some of the objects presented have rarely been on public display before. The Wunderkammer concept goes back to the 15th Century where private collectors, often princes of the realm, collected a wide range of objects or provided patronage for scholars who collected specimens on their behalf. The objects were often displayed in an eclectic but aesthetic manner in rooms and suites specifically set aside for them. The collections served as a projection of regal power as princes could demonstrate through their collections mastery of the world, knowledge and learning. Each display cabinet will have a selection of objects set out in an aesthetic manner to replicate the Wunderkammers of old. One of the most intriguing aspects of this form of display is how the placement of objects aesthetically will interact with both the viewer and each other. 

Following the proposition in 1989 that many long term chronic adult diseases originated in the fetus, studies have concluded that a wide range of diseases from obesity to asthma have been found to have been instigated in early development. As both mammalian oocyte and male germ cell development begins in fetal life, it has been suggested that environmental and lifestyle factors of the mother could directly impact the fertility of subsequent generations. Cigarette smoke is a known toxicant, yet disturbingly a significant proportion of women continue to smoke throughout pregnancy. The focus of our investigations has been to characterize, using an animal model, the adverse effects of smoking directly on ovary and oocyte quality in female offspring and testes and sperm development of male mice exposed in utero and on subsequent generations. In summary, our results demonstrate that pregnancy and lactational exposure to cigarette smoke can have long-lasting profound and subtle effects on the fertility of the next generation(s) of female and male offspring. Speaker:Professor Eileen McLaughlin is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology. Eileen graduated from The University of Bristol UK in 1994 with a PhD in assisted reproduction and reproductive cryobiology, after which she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in reproductive biology to work on the development of human male contraceptive targets at the School of Biochemistry. In 2000, she took up a post-doctoral fellowship to expand her work to female virally vectored immunocontraceptives in wildlife feral animal control with CSIRO and the Invasive Animal CRC in Canberra. In 2002, she obtained a lectureship at the University of Newcastle NSW, where she established an internationally recognised and highly productive lab working on ovarian follicular development, female and male germ cell development and the effects of reproductive toxicants in multigenerational fertility. Eileen has published over 170 peer reviewed chapters and journal articles and been awarded over $34 million in research funding since arriving “Down Under”. 

Management of wildlife species to conserve them needs to evaluate whether the conservation aim(s) has been achieved. Managers and researchers can be very confident (stronger inference) to uncertain (weaker inference) about whether an aim has been achieved and whether that was caused by management. There are three broad options for evaluations; first, those showing trajectories over time; second, those showing responses to management efforts; and third, those showing trajectories over time in response to management.  All approaches should use analysis of response to evaluate management effects, and evaluate predictions of trends and effects of management efforts, in order to strengthen causal inferences. We illustrate the options with examples from wild populations around the world. Speaker:Jim is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra. His research focus is wildlife ecology and management, especially the evaluation of theory and on-ground management. He has published on wildlife in Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK. 

Managing stormwater and associated pollutants is a major problem in urban catchments. The urban stormwater project consisted of two studies which will be discussed in this seminar:Lake Tuggeranong research projectLake Tuggeranong has had persistent problems with blue-green algal blooms leading to lake closure. Blue-green algae blooms are potentially toxic, produce odour and are unsightly. As such they reduce the aesthetic, recreational and environmental benefits derived from Lake Tuggeranong. An investigation into the factors leading to cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Tuggeranong and in-lake trials to investigate possible management solutions will be discussed.Urban pondsUrban ponds are a key feature of Canberra’s urban stormwater network. Urban ponds are used as a water sensitive urban design feature to remove contaminants from urban stormwater.  An investigation of the effectiveness of Canberra’s urban ponds and the effect of altering water regime on nutrient attenuation was undertaken. Speaker:Dr Rod Ubrihien has a broad interest in water quality. Specific areas of interest include managing contamination in urban environments, environmental chemistry, aquatic toxicology and aquatic ecology. His current project includes investigating water quality in Canberra’s urban stormwater system.  

Liberation Records are elated to confirm a national tour for Melbourne’s much loved Slum Sociable in support of their forthcoming EP L.I.F., due for release on Friday 2 August. The 11-date tour will see the band making it to all Australian states and a host of regional shows across August and September.‘A glistening, billowing, euphoric offering’ (CLASH), brand new single ‘Life Is Free’ has won rapturous applause from fans and scored huge streaming support across playlists in Australia, Germany and France. The track was also included in Billie Eilish’s curation of Australian Spotify playlist Front Left.Fresh from huge summer performances including St Kilda Festival, Australian Open Sessions and their memorable Melbourne X-Mas show, the band are locked and loaded to perform their most exciting shows yet in support of the EP. Lead single and summer radio hit ‘Afterthought’, fan favourite ‘Déjà Vu’, and the hypnotic groove and festival-ready chorus of 'Life Is Free' will all make for live highlights at their upcoming shows.The second half of 2019 is vastly improved with tickets to Slum Sociable’s national headline tour going on sale at 9am on Wednesday 3 July and the L.I.F. EP dropping on Friday 2 August. Secure your tickets ASAP.

triple j & Select Music Presents:STELLA DONNELLYBEWARE OF THE DOGS NATIONAL TOURWith Very Special Guest - Jade ImagineIt's finally time for us to do an Australian tour good and proper and I can think of no better guest than jade imagine to join us each night around the country. Tickets on sale this Friday July 12 at 9AM EST from www.stelladonnelly.com - See you soon!Through Plus 1, we will be donating $1 from every ticket sold to Sister Works - a a not-for-profit social enterprise, based in Melbourne who's mission is to support women who are refugees, asylum seekers or migrants to improve their confidence, mental wellbeing and sense of belonging.

Stonefest 2019 | Saturday 19 October | UC Refectory & UC Hub | 18+ Full Lineup: (in alphabetical order) British India | Ceres | Cry Club | Example (UK) | FRITZ | Genesis Owusu | Good Doogs | Japanese Wallpaper | Mallrat | Moaning Lisa | Ninajirachi | Pagan | RAAVE Tapes | Sampa The Great | Skegss | Sputnik Sweetheart | Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers | Thelma Plum After nearly a decade in hibernation, Stonefest returns to the University of Canberra. Set to take over UC Refectory and UC Hub this October with a mammoth lineup of international acts, Hottest 100 favourites and some of Australia’s hottest new talents, Stonefest is a nostalgia trip and a glimpse into the future all in one. Heading up the lineup are a duo of Australian acts. Skegss have shot to stardom with their buzzed-out, relatable surf rock that saw them claim #11 in the 2018 Hottest 100 with ‘Up In The Clouds’, whilst Mallrat is on a trajectory all her own, with an entirely sold out national tour that included four back-to-back shows at the Corner Hotel and three at The Triffid in Brisbane.  There are also nods to Stonefests past, with British India returning to the festival they played more than a decade ago and Euro pop megastar Example dropping in from the UK.  Canberra acts have been kicking some serious goals in recent times, and they’re well-represented with globetrotting rapper/performance artists Genesis Owusu and alternative rockers Moaning Lisa heading up a local contingent that also includes Sputnik Sweetheart and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.   ‘Clumsy Love’ singer Thelma Plum, Zambia-born rapper Sampa The Great, instant party RAAVE Tapes, past Unearthed High winner Japanese Wallpaper, and emo favourites Ceres prove that there’ll be something for everyone across Stonefest’s two stages. Emerging acts Cry Club, Good Doogs, Ninajirachi, Paganand FRITZ round out the lineup, offering new discoveries for the uninitiated.

The Aon Uni 7s Series will return to the University for the second time as it plays host to the fourth and final leg of the Series in 2019.  Join the UC 7s squad and some of the best female sevens players in Australia as they fight it out to see who will take the Series title.  Admission is free over the weekend, with plenty on offer to keep the whole family entertained.   

We love supporting women and celebrating the University of Canberra community who are changing the world and shaking things up - one step at a time. Please join the Office of Advancement at our annual Women's Breakfast with your MC for the morning, the incredible Virginia Haussegger AM, as we hear from inspiring speakers including Kate Munari and Professor Sudha Rao. Enjoy a delicious breakfast at the National Portrait Gallery, network the room and throw your support behind a truly inspiring cause; the UC Cancer Research Fund.