Alexia Bannikoff, Director, International Office (1 November 2004)
Executive and Admin
Australian Financial Review
Australian universities could be responsible for an educational export boom. While overseas student numbers are still relatively low at UTS, its MBA course is "struggling with overwhelming demand from international students", says Alexia Bannikoff.

Dr Mike Minehan (1 November 2004)
Insearch
Sydney Morning Herald
The utopian fantasies of millions of viewers are boosting the popularity of Australian soaps around the world. Dr Mike Minehan, Head of Communication at Insearch UTS, says the cross-cultural appeal is not surprising. "There is a sense of freedom and the new world about Australia that the older world looks upon with some envy."

Dr Yusuf Pisan (1 November 2004)
Information Technology
Australasian Science
Artificially intelligent computer game characters that remember how you have treated them in the past are being created at UTS. Dr Yusuf Pisan, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, says his aim is to consign to history one-dimensional characters with no emotion and no memory.

James Muir and Carl Masens (1 November 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building, Science
Engineers Australia
The glass house is one of six futuristic houses created for the Year of The Built Environment and showcases the latest in glass engineering and nanotechnology from around the world.
The design of the glass house was a collaborative effort between James Muir and Carl Masens of the UTS Institute for Nanoscale Technology, the CSIRO and Arup.

Associate Professor Vivien Lane (2 November 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
UTS will be the first university in the state to provide an advanced cancer nursing curriculum.
UTS Associate Professor of Cancer Nursing Vivien Lane says increasing professionalism in areas of specialist care is vital to nursing and nurses receiving due recognition in Australia and internationally for the central role they play in health care.

Associate Professor David Wilson (2 November 2004)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Australian universities are bracing themselves for another decline in computer course enrolments, with the new academic year tipped to dash the hopes of any institution hoping to benefit from an improved technology labour market. The outlook is brighter at UTS however. First preferences for its Bachelor of Science in IT are up 26 per cent. David Wilson, Associate Dean of IT says, "overall our figures are reasonably heartening but on the other hand data from another NSW university shows they again expect a 25 per cent drop, which indicates an overall drop in preferences for IT across the state, and that's bad for the sector."

Dr Ronald Wood (2 November 2004)
Science
St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader, Hills News
Health can be improved through careful design and management of the built environment. An example is the air quality in office buildings. Dr. Ron Wood of UTS has researched the potential for indoor plants to clear the air of a volatile organic compounds, like benzene, that cause sick-building syndrome.

Professor Jill White, Dean (3 November 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
UTS says it has had a 47 per cent increase in the number of preferences for it's Bachelor of Nursing course. UTS has 100 extra nursing places for 2005. "With such an extreme shortage of top nurses in Australia we are excited about the increase in places and the high demand," UTS Dean of Nursing Jill White said.

Professor Vicki Sara (3 November 2004)
Executive and Admin
Campus Review Weekly
Incoming UTS Chancellor and former chair and CEO of the Australian Research Council, Professor Vicki Sara, has called on the country's researchers and innovators to redouble their efforts to persuade the community of the value of research.

Adam Goodrum (4 November 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
Adam Goodrum has won the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award with his latest body of work, which includes a stainless-steel and leather chair. His reward was a prize of $20,000. Goodrum, who lectures at UTS, says the prize money will probably be used to help finance an exhibition of showpieces.

Peter Cantrill (6 November 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Radio National
Interview with Peter-John Cantrill who discusses architecture past and present and how senses apart from sight can be stimulated by a building's design.

Dr Simon Darcy (6 November 2004)
Business
Manly Daily
A profile of UTS academic Simon Darcy who has dealt with life after a spinal cord injury. He has graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy from UTS and speaks of the support he has had which made it possible to achieve so much.

Malcolm McKenzie, Manager, Careers Service (7 November 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sun Herald
Psychometric tests designed by psychologists give employers more information about your personality and overall profile to see how you may operate in their workplace. Malcolm McKenzie, a careers counsellor at UTS, said some graduates deliberately chose not to apply for certain positions because they dislike psychometric testing.

Professor Michael Adams (8 November 2004)
Law
Australian Financial Review
The government's decision to get tough on corporate reform is spawning an emerging area of financial service law. UTS recently appointed Michael Adams to the Perpetual Trustees Australia Chair in Financial Services Law. Professor Adams said reforms affecting the financial services and securities markets were fuelling demand for online delivery from busy lawyers needing to be up to speed on the new regulations. "At UTS we tend to believe more in blended solutions, and in the decade or so we've been doing them, we've become a lot more sophisticated," he said.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (8 November 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
Radio Adelaide
A new Indigenous Council has been appointed by the government to provide advice on policy, program and service-delivery issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The new council has come up against a lot of criticism because its members were not elected. Professor Larissa Behrendt says she's an Aboriginal person who appreciated the opportunity to have an elected representative group, and while she was critical of some aspects of ATSIC, she was disappointed to see it abolished because it was a key way for Indigenous people to express their right to self-determination.

Associate Professor Jenny Hammond (9 November 2004)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
The Federal Government is to launch a review into the way primary school children are being taught to read. Associate Professor Jenny Hammond from UTS's Faculty of Education said the debate was being revived by the phonics lobbyists. "There's a lot of evidence that suggests the claim of a literacy crisis is a cyclical phenomenon, and part of a particular political scenario," she said.

Dr Tony Kidman (9 November 2004)
Science
Radio 2UE
Dr Tony Kidman discusses depression and his new book 'Devils, Drugs and Doctors'. He says philosophers in the 17th and 18th centuries began to address the issue. He then talks about the treatments that were originally used for depression and how the use of drugs in the 1940s was a great breakthrough.

Robynne Quiggin (9 November 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
ABC Radio National
The issue of Indigenous intellectual property rights is currently being addressed at a conference in Alice Springs. Robynne Quiggin says while mainstream appreciation of Indigenous knowledge has improved, legal protections are required if this knowledge is to avoid abuse by corporations.

David Meltz and Judith Lancaster (10 November 2004)
Law
The Australian
Businesspeople are being given a greater insight and a much firmer grip on the law. Judith Lancaster and David Meltz, law teachers at UTS, teach preventative law, which as the name suggests, is there to stop businesspeople getting in trouble. "It's a new way of teaching the subject to cross disciplinary students who need to do law but who aren't going to be lawyers," Lancaster says.

Marijke Wright (10 November 2004)
Executive and Admin
ABC 702
Valentine says that this is the time of year, in particular, when people begin thinking about their future career prospects. He wants to establish how one can know how to chose the right career for them. Marijke Wright, Career Counsellor, UTS, joins the show. She states that people often make the wrong decision or find that they do not like their university courses. She would recommend that people seek advice and speak to people in the business about their job.

Francine Garlin (15 November 2004)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Consumer psychologists say Sydneysiders are so demoralised by the relentless delays in their rail network that they are suprised when trains run on time. Francine Garlin, a lecturer in consumer behaviour at UTS's School of Marketing, said commuters could soon reach the point where they accept the situation, believe they can't change it and that there's no point complaining.

Professor Thomas Clarke (15 November 2004)
Business
ABC Radio National
Discussion about ethics in business, and whether corporations have a responsibility beyond their shareholders. Professor Thomas Clarke says Meredith Hellicar at one time argued her responsibility to James Hardie was to the shareholders. Clarke notes corporations cannot kill people with impunity.

Janet Green (16 November 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
Tony Abbott has sparked a national debate on abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Neonatal nurse Janet Green, who is an academic at UTS, discusses what she calls the "surreal" reality of "micro-prems", babies born at 24 weeks gestation or less. That is not far from 20 weeks, which approximately is Australia's average legal limit for abortion.

Dr Glen Searle (17 November 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC 702 Sydney, ABC Darwin, ABC Lismore, ABC South East NSW, Morning Bulletin
An urban planning expert says developers should compensate neighbours whose properties drop in value as a result of what is built nearby.

Associate Professor Wendy Bacon (18 November 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian
A recent article which suggested that many people studying to be journalists actually had a distaste for much of the work of journalism because they found it morally questionable has drawn a strong reaction from students and media practitioners. Wendy Bacon, head of journalism at UTS, says the comments reflected old misunderstandings and suspicion of university journalism education.

Dr Shanny Dyer, Hank Chiu and Dr Ananda Sanagavarapu (18 November 2004)
Engineering, Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Collaboration between different disciplines will provide tomorrow's solutions to health care problems. Shanny Dyer's job as Head of Commercialisation at UTS is to identify research that can be made into a product, put intellectual property protection around it and then commercialise it. She cites the recent example of UTS engineers Hank Chiu and Dr Ananda Sanagavarapu, who worked with cardiologists at Westmead Hospital to design a machine to treat diseased heart tissue with microwaves.

Professor David Barker, Dean (19 November 2004)
Law
Lawyers Weekly
Apparently on the right track with their chosen professions, law students at UTS have this year won three major mooting competitions, a success rate not previously achieved in an Australian law school. UTS Dean of Law Professor David Barker said he hopes the students success is a "drawcard to some of the best young minds in Australia considering a career in the law."

Caitlin McGee (20 November 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
The long-range weather forecast shows storms on the horizon. Weather forecasts are getting more extreme and more erratic. We will have to change the way we work, live and play. "We have to start now - we should have started yesterday," says Caitlin McGee, a senior researcher with the Institute of Sustainable Futures at UTS, who is confident that by 2030 Sydney will build homes designed for near self-sufficiency when it comes to water and power.

Carl Masens (21 November 2004)
Science
Sun Herald
Academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a handbag that reminds users if they leave behind their keys, knows if it's going to rain and issues a weather warning and provides it's own light in dark situations. "We can expect to see more and more pervasive, and perhaps invasive technology surrounding us in our daily lives," says Carl Masens from UTS's Institute for Nanoscale Technology.

Professor Ashley Craig (22 November 2004)
Science
Canberra Times
There are encouraging advances in research into the treatment of spinal injury. Ashley Craig, of UTS has developed a "Mind Switch" that uses the change in brainwave patterns when people shut their eyes to control televisions. Craig's research team has conducted trials in the homes of people with a high level of disability and found that they could effectively change channel and volume settings within 30 seconds after minimal training. "We are the only people in the world who have done a field trial at this level," Craig says.

Professor Tharam Dillon, Dean (23 November 2004)
Information Technology
The Australian
UTS is trying to establish a $38 million data mining centre of excellence to involve universities, industry and government. The centre would investigate and solve critical problems in deep data mining and business processes, research that could dramatically improve decision making in such areas as marketing, finance and health. Professor Tharam Dillon, Dean of the IT Faculty says, "at the moment there is a disconnection between technology, people and those doing data mining and this will help to bring them together and ensure there is a flow of information, techniques and concepts."

Professor David Wilson (23 November 2004)
Information Technology
The Australian
UTS Associate Dean of Information Technology David Wilson says there has been a 50 per cent cumulative fall in IT enrolment applications from 2002 to 2004. "While there is more positive news about IT employment, applications have still fallen another 12 to 15 per cent this year, which is going to put pressure on the industry because there are fewer students in IT across the country," Professor Wilson said.

Dr Simon Beecham (23 November 2004)
Engineering
Radio Adelaide
The risks from continuing droughts are on the increase. Fanciful schemes have been proposed at government levels, such as desalinating sea water, but local councils have been successfully trialling more pragmatic solutions. Dr Simon Beecham says that water management needs to be looked at. We need to use drainage wastewater and sewage and utilise them to different degrees. Beecham says he wants our attitudes to water usage to move towards management.

Dr Boyd Dent (23 November 2004)
Science
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
It has been claimed disused brick pits used for landfill across the inner west could pose a health risk to residents after asbestos was found at Westmead Hospital. Dr Boyd Dent from the Department of Environmental Sciences at UTS said the health risk from these sites was probably small. "The potential is low for something to work it's way to the surface," he said.

Professor Stuart White, Director (24 November 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Consumers may be forced to pay a deposit when they buy mobile phones, televisions or computers, to be refunded when they hand them in for recycling at the end of the gadgets' lives.
Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, says the scheme already exists in Japan and cuts down on the ever-increasing number of broken computer monitors and out-of date phones taking up space in landfill. "The rise of disposables and planned or unplanned obsolescence is making this problem worse," he said.

Professor Stuart White, Director (24 November 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
ABC 891
Professor Stuart White from UTS says we need to restructure the way we deal with waste. He says there is a call to extend producer responsibility, which means manufacturers would have a responsibility to ensure their products are either reused or recycled when they are eventually discarded.

Simon Walsh (24 November 2004)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald (Radar)
Simon Walsh, lecturer in forensic biology at UTS, comments of the effectiveness of fidelity tests that promise to catch out a partner by detecting the presence of semen on clothes and bed linen. Walsh says it would be unwise to rely on such tests to determine the future of a relationship. "Some tests will give a positive reaction in the presence of other non-human substances, like horseradish, or tea, or beer," he says.

Louise Remond (25 November 2004)
Science
Hornsby Advocate
Self-mutilation by local teenagers is becoming a disturbing issue for parents and health authorities. Clinical psychologist Louise Remond from the Health Psychology Unit of UTS, based at Royal North Shore Hospital, runs programs for girls aged 15 to 18 in schools around Sydney. "For some girls self-mutilation can be a way of physically dealing with emotional pain, for others it can be a bit of a cry for help," she said.

Stephan Wellink (27 November 2004)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
A new book 'Australia's Nobel Laureates' aims to make the country's Nobel Prize winners better known by the Australian public. The book's originator Stephan Wellink, Director of Research and Commercialisation at UTS, hopes the profiles of great thinkers will inspire young Australians to awaken to "the glories of discovery" and aim as high as a Nobel Prize.

James Arvanitakis (27 November 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Age
For all their boldest antics, the biggest success of environmental activists has been in the shopping-bag campaign. James Arvanitakis says the bag campaign has "a really simple message - plastic bags harm the environment." "There's a cause and effect that people see. They were offered an alternative that saved them effort."

Professor Stuart White, Director (30 November 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Inner west residents are the best placed to make Sydney a more sustainable city, according to Professor Stuart White of UTS. Speaking at last week's UTS Speaks lecture White said more people should walk and cycle to their destinations. "We need to encourage walking and cycling and also look at a range of different land uses," he said.

Dr Glen Searle (30 November 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
New developments in Burwood provide classic examples of why developers should pay a "betterment levy", according to UTS's Head of Planning in the Design, Architecture and Building Faculty. Dr Glen Searle said developers building high-density developments in previously low-density areas, should compensate their neighbours who lose out with reduced property values. "Some part of the property profits would be invested in a fund to compensate people whose property values fell," he said.