Western Australia
August 10, 2006
Agricultural
research at The University of
Western Australia (UWA) will be reinvigorated with the new
UWA Institute of Agriculture and the appointment of a new Chair
in Agriculture, Professor Kadambot Siddique.
These moves into the future will be celebrated at 5pm this
evening at the University Watersports Complex, Hackett Drive,
Crawley, with the launch of the Institute by the Minister for
Agriculture and Food; Forestry; the
Midwest
and Wheatbelt, Kim Chance.
UWA Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson, an agricultural
scientist, will join the Minister Kim Chance and Professor
Alistar Robertson, Dean of UWA’s Faculty of Natural and
Agriculture Sciences, to mark the University’s commitment to
expanding its links with industry.
In assuming the Chair of Agriculture, Professor Siddique also
becomes Director of the
Institute
of Agriculture at UWA, which is being rejuvenated to create a
critical mass of research excellence in UWA’s agricultural
science groups. |