University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia was created by an act of parliament in 1911 as the state's first university, and it began teaching in 1913 with 184 students in engineering, science and arts. A bequest from founding chancellor Sir John Winthrop Hackett paid for its main buildings, including Winthrop Hall, finished in 1932 at the Crawley campus on the Swan River. Its alumni include Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and UWA researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine.

• Medical research
• Science and engineering
• Arts and humanities

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