Dr Chloe Mason (1 October 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Daily Telegraph
The number of Gosford residents choosing to ride instead of drive has decreased by 11 per cent in recent years. Dr Chloe Mason, consultant in environmental and sustainable transport, said there were many reasons why the negative trend needed to be reversed, including benefits for the environment, health, time efficiency and a reduction in the cost of living.

Bill Childs (1 October 2004)
Law
Australian Macworld
Bill Childs, lecturer in IT Law at UTS, doesn't think anti-spam legislation is worth the paper it's written on. "Both in Australia and other jurisdictions the amount of spam traffic appears to be increasing. It is like so much window dressing, and all jurisdictions are pretty much the same - anti-spam laws do not work."

Caroline Homer, Director, Centre for Midwifery and Family Health (1 October 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
Research has begun into building Australia's first national standards for midwifery practice and competency. Project leader is Caroline Homer, from the UTS Centre for Midwifery and Family Health.

Dr Sarah Edelman (3 October 2004)
Science
Radio 2UE
Psychologist Dr Sarah Edelman of UTS discusses the issue of teachers bullying students or other teachers. Because students and parents are more aware of their rights teachers can sometimes use hostile or demeaning language, which can be just as damaging but harder to prove.

Dr Michael Hill (6 October 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Campus Review Weekly
UTS is now taking enrolments in it's new master of animation, starting in 2005. The course has been developed in response to growing industry demand for creative professionals to update their skills in line with the rapid advancement in technology. Master of animation developer, Dr Michael Hill, said, " this is the first course of it's kind and reflects UTS' collective teaching strengths in digital design, animation, programming and production."

Professor Liz Jacka (8 October 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
A proposed all-Australian digital television network is a big ask according to Professor Liz Jacka of UTS. "There is no way in a market the size of Australia you can provide 100 per cent Australian content and maintain the same level of quality," she said. "If you're going to get people to switch over you need good drama, sitcoms, sport, alternative news and current affairs. That's going to cost a lot of money."

Professor Douglas Tomkin (8 October 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC 666 Canberra
Modern homes seem to be full of remote controls. Professor Tomkin outlines the history of remote controls, going on to explain how remotes work and what appliances come with remote controls. Professor Tomkin outlines world-wide trends in remote controls and the environmental impacts of remote controls.

Professor Derek Eamus (9 October 2004)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Derek Eamus of UTS has done the sums on the Australian dream. Eamus compared Australia's consumption of petrol, meat, oil and kilo joules with the averages for the developed and developing nations of the world. It turns out that Australians have the third largest ecological footprint, behind USA and Canada.

Heidi Norman (11 October 2004)
Jumbunna
SBS Ethnic Radio
Democrats Senator Aiden Ridgeway looks like losing his seat which means there will be no sitting Aboriginal member in either house of Parliament. Heidi Norman who is an indigenous academic at the University of Technology says this coupled with the abolishment of ATSIC is deeply worrying.

Professor Claude Roux (12 October 2004)
Science
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
The popularity of crime shows is changing the way we perceive forensic science. Last year 300 year 12 students placed forensic science at UTS as their first choice of degree. The director of the UTS forensic science research, Professor Claude Roux, said, "for us the popularity of the TV shows is like a bonus. We didn't really need it to fill the places." The demand for the course has been increasing since it started in 1994.

Professor Ross Milbourne, Vice-Chancellor (12 October 2004)
Executive and Admin
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Three senior Iraqi academics visiting Sydney last week signed a memorandum of understanding with UTS that will foster collaboration on research projects and student exchange. UTS Vice-Chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne said both UTS and the University of Baghdad would benefit from a strong relationship and that study and research opportunities would flow from collaborations.

Professor Jill White, Dean (13 October 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
UTS, without a single advertisement for it's new midwifery degree course, has fielded 400 applications for the program, which has an intake for it's first cohort next year of just 30.
Professor Jill White, Dean of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, said UTS was able to offer the course after years of lobbying that culminated in the passage of enabling legislation in the NSW parliament.

Professor Vicki Sara (13 October 2004)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
Vicki Sara is the newly announced chancellor at UTS. Sara says that universities will have hard negotiations on their hands over indexation and industrial relations, but it's not a matter of a fight. "The universities work very effectively with the Government and I would hope that my experience in Canberra can support UTS in doing that."

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (14 October 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Sally Tracy, Associate Professor of Midwifery at UTS, said mothers in many parts of regional NSW had no access to midwifery care and women in Australia don't really have a choice when it comes to maternity services.

Caitlin McGee (14 October 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Central Coast Sun Weekly
Caitlin McGee, an architect with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, says new housing is still being built without insulation but with ducting for air-conditioning. "About half the houses in NSW have no roof insulation," she says. "Reflective insulation in the roof alone can cut down radiant heat gain by up to 95 per cent."

George Verghese (16 October 2004)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
In the furniture world, highly recognisable design classics are being shamelessly copied and flogged all over town. George Verghese, Director of program for Interior Design at UTS, lays a lot of the blame on the interior designers. "Some interior designers are actually specifying fakes," he says.

Professor Stuart White, Director (18 October 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Environmentalists have warned that desalination is not a viable long-term solution to Sydney's water needs after the Premier, Bob Carr, reversed his longstanding opposition to the energy-intensive technology and ordered detailed planning for a plant. "It should only be implemented as a last resort, after the efficiency of water use in Sydney is at world's best practice and we have exhausted all cheaper reuse and stormwater options," said Professor Stuart White from UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Alice Watkins (18 October 2004)
Information Technology
Computerworld Australia
A third of the skills nominated as essential in current ICT job advertisements are interpersonal, nontechnical skills. Alice Watkins, Director of Industry Liaison in the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS, confirms that, "the goal of a perfect match between industry needs and what education and training are able to provide at any point in time is an elusive one. There is a time lag between recognising the technology skills needed, developing and marketing appropriate courses and then completing the training of the students."

Dr Simon Beecham (18 October 2004)
Engineering
Radio 2GB, ABC 702
Water experts say Sydney residents have a long way to go before becoming efficient water users. The NSW Government is to buy new pumping equipment for dams and investigate desalination, but one expert, Simon Beecham, believes recycling would be a better option.

Simon Walsh (18 October 2004)
Science
Armidale Express
Simon Walsh, from UTS, will talk to the students about careers in science, focusing particularly on forensic science as just one example of the fascinating career paths open to science graduates.

Dr Simon Beecham (19 October 2004)
Engineering
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
From children to academics, National Water Week brings people together to consider the importance of water conservation. Director of Water Engineering at UTS, Dr Simon Beecham, is working on a water sensitive urban design. Dr Beecham and his team at the UTS Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management are focusing on integrating water cycle management with urban planning and design, to contribute to an ecologically sustainable city.

Professor Mary-Anne Williams (19 October 2004)
Information Technology
Channel 10 (Totally Wild)
Mary-Anne Williams talks about the soccer playing robo puppies at UTS. Each 'puppy' has a small video camera mounted in its nose, picking up different coloured markers and lines around the soccer field to determine its position in relation to the ball and goal. Williams says the ultimate aim of the research is to see humanoid robots able to help people around the home.

Professor Jim Irish (20 October 2004)
Engineering
Daily Telegraph
Singapore, parts of Europe and the US recycle their sewage and drink it - and the State Opposition believes that Sydney should consider the idea too. "In Australia we have got this mentality of psychological not biological," UTS water expert Professor Jim Irish says. "We have to start an education program a long way off because this idea might have to be a reality one day."

Professor Stuart White (20 October 2004)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Stuart White discusses the debate on Sydney's water future and how it has focused on enhancing existing supplies, seawater desalination and large scale effluent recycling.

Dr Ban Al-Ani (20 October 2004)
Information Technology
Campus Review Weekly
UTS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq's largest university, the University of Baghdad which aims to boost e-learning skills. UTS academic Dr Ban Al-Ani, said the agreement will foster collaboration on research projects and researcher and student exchange.

Peter Manning (21 October 2004)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian
UTS is targeting experienced journalists with a new course, a graduate certificate in media management. The course co-ordinator is Seven's former news and current affairs chief Peter Manning. He says "graduates of this program will have an understanding of modern styles of management practice, the particular demands on managers of news organisations, models of best management practice with respect to journalism, an ability to communicate powerfully in the field of media management and the skills necessary to maintain high-quality journalistic output."

Professor Larissa Behrendt (21 October 2004)
Law, Jumbunna
4AAA (Brisbane)
Tiga Bayles talks to Larissa Behrendt, the Director of UTS's Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, about her personal aboriginal family background, indigenous student assistance and the Deadly Vibe Awards, run by the Aboriginal Deadly Vibe magazine. Behrendt talks about her Deadly Award nomination in the literature category.

Francine Garlin (23 October 2004)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
In the time-poor noughties, when life gets too hectic we shop. Francine Garlin, from the School of Marketing, UTS sees the pleasure we derive from shopping a little differently. "Shopping is one of the top leisure activities we enjoy. We don't go to the shops to buy something - we buy something to go to the shops. The shopping mall is the old town square and we go there to interact with others."

Associate Professor Vivien Lane (24 October 2004)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sun Herald
For the first time in NSW, nurses can specialise in cancer care at UTS. The university's Associate Professor of Cancer Nursing Vivien Lane said, "we offer nurses professional career pathways linked with greater professional autonomy and improved pay and work conditions that are better than those found in many countries."

Associate Professor David Wilson (26 October 2004)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Jobs for recent computer science postgraduates have plummeted. At UTS, where masters courses are mostly taken by those who have jobs, the limited employment opportunities were not as obvious. However, the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Information Technology, David Wilson said generally the fallout from the dotcom crash had created a difficult period for all computer graduates. "Anybody having done any undergraduate or postgraduate course would have struggled to find a job in the past couple of years," Mr Wilson said.

Associate Professor David Wilson (27 October 2004)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
A slip in technology job vacancy rates over the past month has put an end to an eight-month climb and clouded optimism that tough labour market conditions are a thing of the past.
The Associate Dean of Information Technology at UTS, David Wilson, said the continued absence of computer skills on the MODL indicated that the IT industry had not yet fully recovered.
"A lot of companies thought that as the industry recovered there was pool or retrenched people ready to be employed, but a certain amount of anecdotal evidence suggests those people have gone and got other jobs outside the industry," Professor Wilson said.

Ronald Wood (27 October 2004)
Science
Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser, Parramatta Sun, Camden Advertiser
One of the themes of the Year Of The Built Environment is Healthy Environment - that covers the buildings that make us unwell as well as healthier. Ron Wood of UTS has researched the potential for indoor pants to clear the air of volatile organic compounds that cause sick building syndrome.

Narelle Smith (27 October 2004)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Condom manufacturer, Durex, boasts of having taken the "world's largest sex survey". Narelle Smith, senior lecturer in statistics at UTS says, "the people in the sample were self-selecting when they answered the questions on the Durex website. That means, from a statistical point of view, the information is useless because you can't extrapolate the results to the rest of the population."

Sonya Pearce (27 October 2004)
Business
National Indigenous Times
A trio of breakthrough projects benefiting Indigenous education, health and community development were at the forefront at the recent UTS Human Rights Awards for 2004. Indigenous academic Sonya Pearce was doubly honoured - for the Indigenous programs she oversees in the UTS Faculty of Business and for her work with the Redfern Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Women's Centre.

Associate Professor David Wilson (28 October 2004)
Information Technology
Business Review Weekly
As big business is soaking up a shrinking talent pool, smaller companies are looking overseas for specialists. Graduates of UTS are being offered jobs before they complete their studies, according to the Associate Dean in the IT faculty, David Wilson. "Microsoft.net is now flavour of the month and people are crying out for people to work in small and large software houses."

Noel Merrick, National Centre for Groundwater Management (28 October 2004)
Engineering
Central Coast Express
UTS groundwater expert Noel Merrick says the impact of sand mining on the Somersby Plateau aquifer depends on the location of mining activity. "Most likely it would allow more rain to get into the aquifer, and that is doing the aquifer a favour," he said. "Only if mining is on the edge of a hill would there be a chance of it reducing spring flow that might be supporting vegetation."