State-of-the-art facilities

The Faculty of Science has just undergone extensive renovations, providing brand new state of the art teaching and research facilities to all students within the faculty.

• Within the School of Mathematical Sciences, new learning spaces have been created with interconnected lap top computers and interactive whiteboards to promote collaborative learning and to facilitate student to student and teacher to student interaction.
• Chemistry laboratories have been fitted with state of the art wireless instrumentation and data projectors to engage students in meaningful collaborative learning.
• Physics teaching spaces now have extensive multimedia infrastructure, and wireless networks enabling superior student to student and student to teacher interaction. The second and third year teaching laboratories have also been extensively upgraded to include state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation, including a new automated astronomical observatory.
• Major structural changes were made to the Earth Sciences classrooms, using state of the art technology to harness the enormous potential of web based resources, such as Google Earth, for enhancing learning about the Earth from the micron scale to that of the whole Earth system. This experience is complemented with exciting field trips.
• In Biological Sciences students are engaged at the highest level in award winning laboratories that use the latest IT teaching methods and hands-on molecular genetics and microscopy. Students become involved with field trips, both within and outside Australia, and with research projects in a rejuvenated on-campus nature reserve.
• The Australian Synchrotron: Third-year science students have the exceptional opportunity to access the Australian Synchrotron facilities to undertake experiments.