Boyd Dent ( October 2003)
Science
The Helix (CSIRO)
Some authorities fear that once victims of chemical or biological warfare are buried, the pathogens will not only survive, but leak out in groundwater. Sydney UTS lecturer Boyd Dent says anthrax spores have survived in bone buried in soil for about 200 years and smallpox has survived at least 150 years in a coffin. Dent has studied cemeteries around Australia and believes there is the potential for bacteria and viruses to be spread to healthy Australians.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams ( October 2003)
Information Technology
The Helix (CSIRO)
Artificial intelligence experts from UTS have unleashed a team of soccer playing robotic puppies to compete in the international Robo Cup. The human members of the team include experts in artificial intelligence, mechatronics, engineering and information technology. "The soccer playing robots use a sense-think-act processing cycle," said Professor Mary-Anne Williams, who leads the team.

Professor Zoltan Matolcsy (1 October 2003)
Business
National Accountant
With cost and profit margins pared to the bone, companies now need to look at ways to increase revenue with the help of forward thinking accountants engaged in strategic revenue management writes Professor Matolcsy.

PhD student Alison Beavis, Associate Professor Michael Dawson and Dr Philip Doble (1 October 2003)
Science
Campus Review Weekly
UTS chemists have developed a test that promises to reduce the number of false negatives in melanoma diagnosis, and potentially for other forms of cancer as well. Faculty of science PhD student Alison Beavis, under the supervision of Associate Professor Michael Dawson and Dr Philip Doble, has demonstrated that chemical testing can confirm to surgeons that they have removed the correct tissues for biopsy.

Professor Ross Milbourne, Vice-Chancellor (1 October 2003)
Executive and Admin
Campus Review Weekly
Report on the first public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the Nelson higher education reforms.
UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne noted that schools currently have their funding indexed at the rate of growth of average weekly earnings. "We can see no logic as to why operating grants to universities should not be similarly indexed," he said.

Caitlin McGee (1 October 2003)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Australian T3
In the city of Newcastle a house of the future is taking shape. When complete it will be Australia's most ecologically sustainable home. Caitlin McGee of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS said the home was as groundbreaking as anything seen so far in an urban area. When completed, the house will use virtually no municipal resources.

Alex Byrne, University Librarian (1 October 2003)
Executive and Admin
Australian Bookseller and Publisher
Alex Byrne, University Librarian at UTS, has been elected president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). It is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users and the global voice of the library and information profession.

Dr Carl Masens (2 October 2003)
Science
Channel 2 (Catalyst)
Increasingly we are hearing about nano technology from the world of science, including the prospect of machines so small they'll be invisible to the naked eye. Dr Carl Masens of the UTS Institute for Nanoscale Technology isn't confident the predictions being made about nano machines will ever be realised.

Professor Derek Eamus (3 October 2003)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald (Opinion)
Professor Derek Eamus discusses ways to tackle the water crisis and suggests that our biggest problem lies within the agricultural sector rather than the urban population now being targeted with water restrictions.

Professor Geoff Smith and Stefan Schelm (7 October 2003)
Science
The Australian
Researchers in Australia have developed a cheap nanoglass to help keep offices bright and cool in hot weather. The window developed by Stefan Schelm and Geoff Smith of UTS consists of a sheet of nano-particle impregnated plastic sandwiched between plates of glass which lets in the light but screens out the heat.

Tharam Dillon, Dean (7 October 2003)
Information Technology
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Professor Tharam Dillon, the UTS Dean of Information Technology, delivered a speech to IT graduates advising them to be flexible and gain education and experience in other areas. "IT is an excellent degree to prepare you for this, as it not only teaches you the technology, but more importantly, it imparts problem-solving skills, analysis, synthesis and design skills," he said.

Associate Professor Vivien Lane (9 October 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Associate Professor Vivien Lane has been appointed a board member of the newly-created NSW Cancer Institute. Lane was appointed Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at UTS in June this year. She has more than 20 years experience in cancer nursing and is based at Westmead Hospital.

Associate Professor Zoltan Matolcsy (9 October 2003)
Business
Business Review Weekly
Professor of Accounting at UTS, Zoltan Matolcsy, says he supports companies making forecasts of their profits, assets and liabilities but not forecasts of cash flow. "I am not questioning the usefulness of cash flow," he said. "But people do not think and predict cash flow, they think revenues and expenses."

Professor Derek Eamus (9 October 2003)
Science
Land (NSW)
Professor Derek Eamus comes under attack for an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald advocating major reform of water consumption in agriculture. The Land's commentator lashes out at Eamus's "novel views on water policy" that blame farmers for excessive water use.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (10 October 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Inter Press Service
Professor Andrew Jakubowicz believes the relationship between Australia and Indonesia will become increasingly strained as Australia uncritically aligns itself with the United States and gets involved in "US adventures around the world." Jakubowicz feels that Australia has given too much emphasis to the Bali bombing as an attack on Australians, when Australians made up "only a significant minority" of those killed.

Jamila Hussain (10 October 2003)
Law
Australian Jewish News
One of the three initiators of the Women's Interfaith Network (WIN), UTS Law lecturer Jamila Hussain, has worked with Jewish and Muslim women unable to obtain religious divorces without the consent of their husbands. "It is important in a supposed multicultural country like Australia that everybody gets to know everybody else's background and point of view," she said.

Alison Gwilt (10 October 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
Ragtrader
Garment fit , or rather "misfit", is the talk of the fashion industry and some insiders are pointing the finger at how educational institutions tech pattern making. Alison Gwilt, the director of program at UTS, says there is a huge emphasis on fit in the final two years of the UTS course. "However, if the industry has developed a standardised set of measurements then I am sure that teaching institutes would readily adopt them," she said.

Associate Professor David Wilson (12 October 2003)
Information Technology
Sun-Herald
Associate Professor David Wilson said UTS has tried to stay on top of Information Technology trends by consulting an external advisory committee of industry practitioners. Professor Wilson said the process was a mixture of trying to predict what might become state-of-the-art and reacting quickly to trends once they became established.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (13 October 2003)
Law
Champion Post (Parkes)
Professor Larissa Behrendt will deliver the annual Law and Justice Address at this year's NSW Law and Justice Awards, in which a Parkes resident has been nominated.

Anne Bamford (14 October 2003)
Education
ABC Radio National
Teaching children art may assist in other areas of their learning according to US educationalist Arnold April, who heads the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education Program. Anne Bamford from UTS says two NSW schools are taking part in an arts program that involves spending one third of each day teaching the arts, or teaching through the arts.

Patrick Keyzer (14 October 2003)
Law
3CR
The question of whether the Australian Government can lock up children in detention centres or is obliged to recognise its obligations under the International Covenant for the Rights of the Child is a matter still before the High Court. Patrick Keyzer explains that even though Australia has signed various international conventions, such treaties don't become part of Commonwealth law until Parliament has passed a law making them so.

Associate Professor David Lowe (14 October 2003)
Engineering
The Australian
UTS has set up a remote access laboratory that uses robots to conduct software engineering project tests for students based anywhere in the world. Associate Professor David Lowe says, "it uses the Internet as the access platform, with a set of intelligent web servers and some custom-made, back-end software to handle queuing of students and embedded hardware boards. This gives the students more flexibility in accessing a laboratory, especially overseas students."

Pru Black (15 October 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC 702
Sally Loane talks to UTS design lecturer Pru Black about cars at the Sydney Motor Show. Loane asks about the interiors of cars. Black says the focus of a car is very much on the interior. For example, as cars become more technology based, they are now being fitted with DVD players.

Dr Catherine Robinson (15 October 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
The dream of home ownership remains a dream for many families living in poverty. Catherine Robinson has been involved in research with the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute into people with mental illness attempting to find accommodation. She says that people with a mental illness can become extremely isolated and she believes in the merits of supportive accommodation.

Associate Professor Di Brown (15 October 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Nurses are in short supply in Australia and the problem is expected to get worse as the decade rolls on. As a result, there is a large range of TAFE and university and industry-linked nursing courses available. Associate Professor Di Brown from the UTS Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health says the UTS course is very hands on. "We have practicals throughout our courses. For the bachelor of nursing, the students are all out in a hospital environment within three weeks of starting the course."

Gerard de Valence (15 October 2003)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Course Test Drive: Postgraduate studies in facility management, UTS.
Virtually all students are working in a connected field says course co-ordinator Gerard de Valence. He says there is strong international demand for graduates.

Ross Milbourne, Vice-Chancellor (15 October 2003)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
Universities have led the way in progressive workplace standards and it was not the place of governments to intervene according to the Australian Technology Network (ATN) of universities. "In many ways universities have led the way in defining what should be community standards, especially in terms of maternity leave," said UTS Vice-Chancellor Ross Milbourne. "For us to be hammered on what we believe is social progress is just ridiculous."

Dr Anne Bamford (15 October 2003)
Education
Campus Review Weekly
The effect of an intensive arts-based program on upper-primary schoolchildren is being explored by visual arts lecturer Dr Anna Bamford of UTS. The Education and the Arts Partnership Initiative aims to help "at risk" students by using the creative arts to address adolescent learning issues.

Dr Tony Kidman (16 October 2003)
Science
Radio 2UE
UTS Health Psychology Unit Director Dr Tony Kidman is interviewed on depression. Dr Kidman says poverty is a significant contributor to depression. He says welfare recipients have a rate of depression about three times that of the general population according to British research. Dr Kidman says people who have got the money can get a lot more help for depression than poor people.

Alison Beavis, PhD student (16 October 2003)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
After completing an undergraduate degree in forensic science at UTS, Alison Beavis was approached in her honours year to work on a new project. The Sydney Melanoma Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was looking for a way to avoid errors when diagnosing whether melanoma has spread to a patient's lymph system. " It's nice to have a project, without sounding all mushy, that can make a difference," she said.

Professor Lesley Barclay (16 October 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Giving birth the natural way could become obsolete as evidence mounts that caesarean sections are safe and more women choose them. Lesley Barclay, Director of the Centre for Family Health and Midwifery at UTS, said she was horrified at the prospect of a caesarean trial in normal pregnancies. She warned that women should not underestimate the small but real risks of surgery and that obstetricians' views of birth tended to focus on the actual event, rather than the recovery process.

Simon Beecham (17 October 2003)
Engineering
Australian Financial Review
To help prevent water shortages in coastal centres, several state governments are promoting schemes to subsidise the installation of approved rainwater tanks, particularly in new residential developments. Water engineering expert Simon Beecham of UTS says tanks can at least be used for outdoor watering and flushing toilets.

Aaron Coutts (18 October 2003)
Business
Australian Financial Review
UTS has a prototype treadmill said to be the most advanced in the world. It will be used to test the effects of high intensity training on competitive team sports. It was built through a team effort led by Aaron Coutts of the UTS School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism.

Marijke Wright (18 October 2003)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning, Herald, The Age
Most finance graduates can't just walk in to dream jobs, but there are many other ways into the business. Marijke Wright, a career counsellor at UTS, says financial organisations are increasingly turning to graduates to fill positions with a customer-service focus.

Associate Professor David Wilson (20 October 2003)
Information Technology
The Australian
Universities and industry are concerned about an impending shortage of technology skills as the number of computer students dwindles and campaigns to attract school leavers stall.
David Wilson, Associate Dean (Education) in the faculty of IT at UTS , heads a committee that was recently established to help win back computer students.

Professor Jill White, Dean (20 October 2003)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
More nursing places at universities is the only solution to stemming the exodus of nurses from hospitals. Last year there were 7000 applications for just over 2500 new university places for nurses in NSW. This year the nursing faculty at UTS did not receive any additional places.

Associate Professor David Wilson (20 October 2003)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Information security has become a fundamental component of undergraduate computer courses. The Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS, David Wilson, described information security courses as "the flavour of the month at a time when there is very little flavour of any sort."

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (21 October 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnic Radio
Report on the history and meaning of multiculturalism in Australia. Andrew Jakubowicz says multiculturalism is about government strategies to ensure that cultures survive together comfortably.

Dr Tony Kidman (21 October 2003)
Science
ABC 702
Dr Tony Kidman of the UTS Health Psychology Unit says that exercise has a positive benefit for depressed and anxious people. He adds that social interaction is another important element and he encourages people to try to get out of the house.

Professor John Rice (22 October 2003)
Science
The Australian
Mathematician John Rice will take over as Dean of Science at UTS next February. Professor Rice is director of the Flinders Institute for Research in Science at Flinders University in South Australia. He also chairs the governing board of the Australian Science and Mathematics School.

Professor David Goodman, Director (22 October 2003)
Institute for International Studies
Channel 2
Australian manufacturing is in decline and China is a huge competitor. Chinese small business is growing exponentially, the country has low labour costs and is becoming a hub for investors, with a large growth rate. China expert Professor David Goodman comments on political change in the country.

Shawn Atleo, graduate (22 October 2003)
Education, Institute for International Studies
Campus Review Weekly
UTS graduate Shawn Atleo is the first student to complete a world-first online postgraduate adult education course being taught simultaneously in four continents. The course equips graduates to facilitate learning and change within organisations and communities. Atleo, a Canadian Indigenous leader, says "the course gave me a great global perspective on my work and has had immediate consequences in my practice."

Aaron Coutts (25 October 2003)
Business
Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin
Aaron Coutts of the UTS School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism leads a team that has designed what has been described as the world's most advanced treadmill. "This treadmill will open up new research areas in enhanced athletic performance and clinical injury rehabilitation," he said.

Dr David McKnight (26 October 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
The Australian government has just given ASIO new powers to detain and question individuals on suspicion that they may be acting against the interests of Australians, or that they may know someone who is. McKnight and others comment on whether ASIO has been made too powerful.

Dr Peter de Vries. (26 October 2003)
Education
Sunday Tasmanian
Today, music is widely used around the world as a therapeutic tool to assist people suffering from an array of physical and and psychological illnesses. A recent study by Dr Peter de Vries at UTS monitored the reaction of young children listening to music in different environments. "A big thing for pre-schoolers is the socialisation that occurs when they are allowed to react to the music at they please," he said.

Stephan Wellink, Director, Research and Development (27 October 2003)
Executive and Admin
Australian Financial Review
UTS is set to become the first Australian educational organisation to sign with French-based technology giant Alcatel, in an innovative research partnership expected to generate multimillion-dollar funding for the institution. Director of Research Stephan Wellink says, "the goal at UTS is to link research and process of discovery with the transfer of research results to society."

Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (27 October 2003)
Business, Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
A Senate report on the Government's Medicare policy package is due on Thursday. Meanwhile a study produced by researchers at UTS argues that an earlier report used outdated assumptions and ignored variations in bulk billing rates. UTS health economist Professor Jane Hall said, "I hope we have a more robust debate that is driven more by evidence and good rational thought instead of recourse to ideology."

Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (27 October 2003)
Business, Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Australian Financial Review
The Federal Government has hit back at Labor's sustained attacks on its $917 million Medicare reform package, producing a report it says proves research commissioned by the Senate attacking the reforms was based on "flawed modelling."

Hugh Morris (27 October 2003)
Business
Independent Financial Advisor
Courses in financial planning are taking off. Hugh Morris, co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Business program at UTS, says demand for the course this year has soared, with 130 students enrolled.

Professor Jane Hall, Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (27 October 2003)
Business
Canberra Times
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has quoted a UTS study to challenge the validity of a negative report from La Trobe University on the Government's proposals to reform Medicare.

Professor Andrew Gonczi, Dean (28 October 2003)
Education
Bulletin with Newsweek
It's easy to find doomsayers in the education system but there is an elite 10 that have broken that mould and embrace change and seize the day. Amongst them is the UTS Dean of Education Andrew Gonczi.

Professor David Goodman, Director (28 October 2003)
Institute for International Studies
ABC Classic FM
David Goodman discusses the recent visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao and the relationship between China and Australia. He says that it is inaccurate to regard China as a single homogenous country, and to equate it with another single country is misleading.

Dr Shane Quick (29 October 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
This year's Rugby World Cup continues to attract thousands of people to the smaller and lower profile games as well as the big names. They are called the "mega event fans" says Shane Quick, co-ordinator of the sport management program at UTS. "They are as concerned about being able to say 'I was there' as they are to watch rugby."

Francine Garlin (29 October 2003)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
It is proven that piped music can influence shoppers' buying decisions. Shoppers buy almost 40 per cent more listening to slow music, says Francine Garlin, a marketing lecturer at UTS.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning. (29 October 2003)
Law
National Indigenous Times
The sounds of silence in an increasingly fearful white Australia are stirring some to strive even harder for equality and justice. Professor of Law at UTS, Larissa Behrendt, is one of the the nation's foremost experts in the field. She believes that "a large part of this fear of others, particularly refugees, Arabs and Aboriginal people, seems to be related to an 'us' and 'them' mentality with an increasing sector of the Australian population."

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (29 October 2003)
Humanities and Social Sciences
National Indigenous Times
A UTS report has found that both the State and Federal Governments know very little about racism in the community. Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz says that while governments have been anxious to play down issues that might inflame inter-communal conflict, this strategy has meant that many incidences of racism are not recognised nor responded to.

Aaron Coutts (29 October 2003)
Business
Campus Review Weekly
A UTS sports scientist is using a custom-designed treadmill and high intensity training regime to examine ways of optimising athletic performance. Lecturer in exercise and sports science Dr Aaron Coutts hopes his research project will demonstrate his hypothesis that increased oxygen uptake will increase ability to perform prolonged intermittent high-intensity exercise such as repetitive sprints on the sports field.

Elizabeth Savage, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (30 October 2003)
Business
ABC Radio National
A Federal Parliamentary committee will hand down its report on the proposed Medicare reforms. Elizabeth Savage, UTS, says that the difference between areas is often overlooked when discussing the overall rate of decrease in bulk-billing. She says that the Government is spending more money on Medicare than ever before, but much of this is because of the 30 per cent private insurance rebate. Savage describes the ACT as a "hot spot" because of its low bulk-billing rate.

Dr Peter Watterson (30 October 2003)
Engineering
Channel 2 (Catalyst)
For over 30 years engineers have been trying to build an artificial human heart but all attempts have failed so far. But now there is an Australian solution, an artificial heart pump, and the design is revolutionary.

Jamila Hussein (30 October 2003)
Law
Sydney Morning Herald
There are fears that extremist Muslims may be putting some on the terrorist path. Jamila Hussein, a lecturer in Islamic Law at UTS, said most Australian Muslims adhered to the Hanafi madhab (school of thought) that was not radical.

Associate Professor Claude Roux, Director, Centre for Forensic Science (31 October 2003)
Science
Channel 9
An interview with author Candace Sutton and Professor Claude Roux of the University of Technology Sydney on forensics. Professor Roux says television shows are not realistic because in them the same person does everything. He says it is possible now to extract DNA from objects that have been touched. He says the science of forensics hasn't moved far but the technology has.

David Hipsley (31 October 2003)
Law
Lawyers Weekly
Online learning has made practical legal training (PLT) easier for many law graduates, but the online approach is not without its drawbacks. Director of PLT at UTS, David Hipsley, says online PLT is neither superior nor inferior to on-site learning. Rather, they are alternatives and what is most appropriate will depend upon the individual student.