Stories

In 1982 WAIT and CSIRO design a computer program to identify volcanic ash cloud

Scavenger hunts were a popular student activity in the WAIT Guild Week in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Find out more about our past with this flashback to 1975

We are celebrating Pride Month with records of the LGBTQIA+ community on campus from our early days. Queer people and their stories have traditionally been silenced in written history and archives, so there is additional significance when it comes to the preservation of records created by and for queer people.

Curtin University’s logo still carries with it a connection to our days as the Western Australian institute of Technology (WAIT) and the symbol we used then.

WAIT’s first intake of students was in 1967, with an official enrolment of 2,891 students. Of the health sciences, the associate qualification of pharmacy transferred from Perth Technical College is one of the first disciplines taught in our inaugural year.

On 14 June 1968, our first graduation ceremony was held in Hayman Hall in building 102 (now Curtin Connect) on the Perth campus.

Have a browse through a selection of images on the Perth campus from the 1990s and early 2000s and compare what’s different and what’s exactly the same.