WASM Wombats in Tough Competition

May 08 - The WASM Wombats and the Perth-based WASM Wallabies did the Western Australian School of Mines proud in the 30th Annual Intercollegiate Mining Games  

WASM Welcomes Bursary Scheme Participants

Apr 08 - The Western Australian School of Mines welcomed a group of Year 12 students from around the state as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Mining Careers Bursary Scheme.  

WASM Scholarships – Future Leaders in their Fields

April 08 - WASM students collectively received more than $350,000 in financial support for their 2008 studies at the annual prizes and scholarship ceremony held in early April.  

Curtin academic recognised as one of Australia’s top ten researchers

April 08 - Applied Geology Professor Zheng-Xiang Li has been honoured with a Thomson Scientific Research Citation Award naming him as one of the ten most pre-eminent researchers in Australia.  

Curtin identified as Australia's largest provider of geoscience education

March 08 - A survey by the Australian Geoscience Council has identified Curtin as the single largest supplier of undergraduate geoscience education in Australia  

Memorandum of Understanding with Chamber of Minerals and Energy

March 08 - A new partnership between Curtin and the CME will help to develop the capacity of the minerals and energy sector to respond to the skill shortage in the resources industry  

Curtin partners Rio Tinto to improve research into mine technologies

March 08 - Curtin University and Rio Tinto have entered into a $10.5m partnership to develop a world class innovation centre for strategic research and development in materials and sensing in mining  

High tech Spatial Sciences Studio targets new generation students

March 08 - Expectations for increasing the number of cartography, surveying and GIS graduates are high with the launch of Curtin University’s new state-of-the-art Spatial Sciences Studios  

WASM Staff Member celebrates 40 years

Feb 08 - Lewis Pannell celebrates forty years of employment with WASM  

Distributed Seismic Acquisition System Upgrade

Feb 08 - The Department of Exploration Geophysics has recently upgraded its distributed seismic acquisition system (Seistronix).  

Dept. Of Exploration Geophysics Senior Lecturer accepts ASEG Technical Committee Chair

Feb 08 - Milovan Urosevic has accepted the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Technical Committee Chair  

PhD Student Awarded for Outstanding Research

Jan 08 - WASM's new Minerals Engineering PhD student, Mr. Jian Zhang, recently ranked first in the selection process of the 2008 Australian Postgraduate Award within Curtin University.  

Curtin leases Kalgoorlie's Australia Hotel for WASM Accommodation

Dec 07 - Following increased enrolment at WASM over the past few years, Curtin University has leased Kalgoorlie’s Australia Hotel to provide accommodation for university students  

WA Mining Club Raffle Proceeds Assist WASM’s Metallurgy Students

Dec 07 - Proceeds from a recent raffle held by the WA Mining Club will be put towards improving facilities for current and future generations of WASM students.  

St Barbara's Parade

Dec 07 - Staff and students march in the St Barbara's Parade along the main street of Kalgoorlie  

WASM Metallurgy Welcomes New Associate Professor

Nov 07 - The Western Australian School of Mines would like to welcome Dr Haipeng Wang to their Metallurgy Department as the department’s new Associate Professor.  

New Equipment for Mining Engineering

Oct 07 - WASM's Mining Engineering Department has recently acquired a new mine ventilation test rig  

Industry welcomes future leaders

Oct 07 - Mining companies around the state opened their doors last week to a group of enthusiastic Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy students from WASM.  

Curtin appoints new Director for the Western Australian School of Mines

Oct 07 - Curtin University of Technology has announced the appointment of Professor Paul Dunn as Director of the Western Australian School of Mines (WASM).  

Networking with The AusIMM Student Chapter

Sept 07 - On Thursday September 19, the Kalgoorlie Student Chapter of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) held their annual Formal Dinner at the Tower Hotel.  

Moctar Return to Curtin

Sept 07 - WASM Graduate, His Excellency Mohammed el Moctar Ould Mohammed el Hacen, recently visited the Mineral Economics program on the Bentley campus.  

Mining Education Australia Launched

Sept 07 - Mining Education Australia (MEA), the country's first "national virtual mining school", was officially launched last month after nearly six years of planning