Friday, August 8, 2008

Talk to our animals, learn about lies and more!

We just need to tell you this! You know when something really exciting happens but you don’t want to seem like you’re bragging? Well it’s happened to us, but we’re so proud of it we just have to let you know – we achieved the top (five-star) rating for graduate satisfaction with the release of the 2009 Good Universities Guide. And we’re the only uni in Australia to achieve this 13 times in 14 years, so the Good Universities Guide has praised us for our consistent performance in this field. High fives all around! Anyway, on with the latest hotspot news........

At Murdoch we offer a huge range of Science courses – including Veterinary Science, Psychology and a whole lot more! Come along on Open Day to meet Jo. She’s our faculty recruitment officer for this area – and she LOVES all things science. Here’s some of the cool stuff that Jo has told us about Open Day!

Talk to the animals at our Vet and Biomedical Sciences hotspots

• Be in our VCS 1.106 building at 11am or 1.30pm – for our course talks (given by humans, no talking to the animals yet). You’ll find out everything you need to know about courses in both Veterinary Science (which is consistently voted as the best Vet course in Australia!) and Biomedical Sciences (which includes Pharmacology, Pathology and Parasitology – and try saying that quickly!).
• Take a tour of our Vet Hospital – tours depart at 11.30am and 2pm. You’ll see our animal surgery and animal recovery rooms – and of course, some of our animal patients.
• Meet some more animals – see and touch some cattle, horses and sheep in our animal displays. (Jo pointed out that they’re real live animals, not the museum “display” kind that stay very still behind glass cases.)
• Check out some amazing displays – see Fibre displays to help explain wool quality, a DNA display and a biomedical display about parasitology and pathology (just don’t try to pat the parasites).
• Find out more about how x-rays work – and how they get used in Vet Science by our vets-in-training.

• Visit our Social Sciences building hotspot to see a mock counselling session – you’ll find out how the whole process works.
• Drive a fully programmable car simulator – it’s part of our simulated driving research. No “L” plates required.
• Meet a psychologist – and have your questions answered (questions about careers in psychology that is, any deep psychological questions about the dream where you swam to Rotto wearing your PJs and pink gumboots will have to wait for another time).
• See a lie detection demo – psychological responses can be used in lie detection, check it out!
• Find out about course pathways – and see where a degree in Psychology can lead to!

Keep watching our RSS feed for our more Open Day news! Coming up next – the Nursing, Pharmacy and Chiropractic hotspots you won’t want to miss!

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