Professor Steve Burdon ( April 2005)
Business
CIO
CIOs say they need employees with business skills to build IT departments than can compete with outsourcers. At UTS visiting Professor of e-Business Professor Steve Burdon agrees giving students business skills remains a challenge.

Dr Jane Tarran ( April 2005)
Science
Government News
UTS senior lecturer in urban ecology Jane Tarran outlined the aesthetic, environmental, social and psychological benefits of people's interactions with trees and other greenery in the urban environment.

Richard Cashman (4 April 2005)
Business
ABC Newcastle
UTS Centre for Olympic Studies Associate Director Richard Cashman describes the smaller than usual meeting in Brisbane of delegates from five cities to bid for the 2012 Olympic games.

Professor Ross Milbourne (4 April 2005)
Executive and Admin
Australian Financial Review
The strong research reputation of the "sandstone" universities may be undermined, rather than bolstered, by changes to the way research quality is measured, according to a member of the government's expert panel advising on the changes. The prediction by Vice-Chancellor of UTS Professor Ross Milbourne, counters the conventional wisdom that the elite Group of Eight universities stand to gain from the review of how research quality is measured.

Associate Professor David Wilson (4 April 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Technology professionals are honing their personal and business skills to keep up with the jobs market. However, universities lag behind industry requirements by five to eight years. Associate Professor David Wilson Associate Dean of Technology at UTS concedes that students graduating in 2010 will have studied courses designed in 2005.

Associate Professor David Wilson (5 April 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Several Federal Government departments have announced plans to help address a potential IT skills deficit that could result from a declining take-up of university computer courses as the technology sector revives. The Associate Dean of Education at the IT Faculty at UTS, Associate Professor David Wilson said, "the initiatives were a sign that the government was taking the issue more seriously now that skills shortages were generally in the spotlight."

Professor Larissa Behrendt (6 April 2005)
Jumbunna
4AAA (Brisbane)
Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Jumbunna Centre at UTS explains her heritage and her father's relationship to his people. She also details the position of the Jumbunna Centre's position within the university.

James Arvanitakis (6 April 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Discussion about the World Bank and the fact that Paul Wolfowitz is the new leader. James Arvanitakis, Academic and author from UTS talks about the history of the World Bank and what it does and how the appointment of Wolfowitz will affect the institution.

Adjunct Professor Margaret Burchett (7 April 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
A team from UTS has proven that it takes only a small number of indoor plants to clean the air inside homes and offices. The research group led by Professor Margaret Burchett found indoor plants could remove volatile compounds such as benzene and formaldehyde from the air within 24 hours.

Professor Jill White (7 April 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Lightning Ridge News
Annette Kennedy from Walgett is part of a select band of three indigenous students among 30 people taking part in the first Bachelor of Midwifery degree in NSW at UTS. Dean of the UTS Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Professor Jill White said graduates of the degree would find employment opportunities throughout Australia, although especially in rural and regional areas where a shortage of midwives is felt.

Adjunct Professor Margaret Burchett (9 April 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald, The Age
Original research by NASA indicated that it was plant leaves which absorbed airborne contaminants indoors, but Professor Margaret Burchett from UTS has found that it is actually microbes in the potting mix that are the vital agents. The biofilter effect is created by a symbiotic relationship between the potting mix and the plant.

Professor Larissa Behrendt (10 April 2005)
Jumbunna
Sun Herald
A homeless Aboriginal girl has been locked in a juvenile detention centre for almost four weeks because she has nowhere to go. A spokesman said it was hard to place the girl "due to her behaviour". Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS Larissa Behrendt said there was a high rate in recidivism in the NSW criminal justice system, but Aboriginal people were more likely to return to prison and the chances were even greater for Aboriginal women and juveniles.

Associate Professor David Wilson (12 April 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Universities are being urged to ask for a reduction in the Federal Government's information technology immigration intake in a bid to help struggling local computer graduates find jobs. The Associate Dean of Education in the IT Faculty at UTS, David Wilson, agreed that the universities had maintained "a deathly silence" on the issue but said calling for fewer IT migrants would be like "cutting off our nose to spite our face".

Associate Professor Len Perry (12 April 2005)
Business
Radio Adelaide
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer welcomed a decision today made by ASEAN that Australia could be included in the inaugural East Asian Summit to discuss the creation of a major trade block. Professor Len Perry, a specialist in Asian Australian Economic Relations at UTS, talks about why Australia is so keen to strengthen its economic and political ties with its South East Asian neighbours and to be involved in the decisions ASEAN will be making.

Professor Vicki Sara (13 April 2005)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
The pressure on academics to turn a quick profit from research posed a serious threat to innovation, the former Chair of the Australian Research Council, Vicki Sara, has warned. At a ceremony to mark her appointment as Chancellor of UTS she said the constant pressure on researchers and universities "must be resisted by us all".

Professor Rosemary Johnston (13 April 2005)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
School teaching is becoming a more popular career choice for professionals from backgrounds as diverse as media, business and IT as demand grows for teachers who can bring a range of ideas into the classroom, according to Professor Rosemary Johnston, the Director of Teaching at UTS. "There has been a sharp rise in the number of students choosing teaching as their first preference at undergraduate level, but postgraduate courses are also booming," said Professor Johnston.

Chris Caines (13 April 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Courier Mail
UTS Media Arts and Communication lecturer Chris Caines said Australia's appetite for gadgetry and digital technology had grown as people became more familiar with technology and prices dropped.

Professor Mark Lyons (14 April 2005)
Business
Business Review Weekly
Mark Lyons, Professor of Social Economy at UTS says non-profit organisations get little credit for community building.

Ian Ellis Jones (14 April 2005)
Law
Tweed Sun
A legal challenge to the Daly inquiry could be doomed before it starts. UTS senior lecturer Ian Ellis-Jones says the Government can ensure a local council stays sacked, can stop any legal action and can stifle any future court challenge.

Professor Bob Raison (15 April 2005)
Science
Australian Biotechnology News
Experiments in SCID (severe combined immune deficiency) in mice have shown that the monoclonal antibody, developed by Professor Bob Raison from UTS and his colleagues at PacMab, kills cancerous cells with very high specificity, strongly suppressing the growth of human multiple myeloma xenografts.

Professor Ashley Craig (17 April 2005)
Science
Sun Herald
Sony is developing an interactive games system that would add to the sensations experienced by video games players by bombarding them with ultrasound pulses. Professor Ashley Craig, a neuroscientist at UTS, said such a device was feasible but much work would be needed. He said pulses would need to be directed at the parts of the brain responsible for each sensation, such as the temporal for audio input, central motor for touch and posterior for vision.

Associate Professor David Wilson (19 April 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Financial Review
Visa points lead IT students to Adelaide. Elsewhere in the country, overseas IT enrolments are now declining at the same pace as domestic enrolments. Associate Dean of Education David Wilson, said, "Our experience until this year was that international enrolments held up against the falling local enrolment at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. But this year we have seen the same fall-off in international students as we had in local."

Ian Dobinson (19 April 2005)
Law
The Australian
A taxpayer-funded compensation scheme may be established for the Australian victims of an overseas-trained doctor who was allowed to practise in Queensland despite being deregistered in the US. Ian Dobinson, a senior law lecturer at UTS, said it was unlikely Dr Patel would ever be extradited back to Australia. "Under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act 2001 the maximum penalty for providing false or misleading statements when applying for registration is $370 fine".

Dr Caroline Currie (19 April 2005)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
Article on the future of goods trains. A senior lecturer at UTS, Carolyn Currie, believes public-private partnerships could easily fund the inland line's construction, and that it would carry goods much more efficiently than roads.

Associate Professor Tracy Taylor (19 April 2005)
Business
Sydney Morning Herald
There are plenty of courses for senior executives who want to study . UTS's Executive MBA has been available since 2002. The head of the Graduate School of Business, Tracy Taylor, says typically people doing the executive MBA are people identified by their employer as high potential. Students would have extensive management experience - at least six years.

Professor John Rice (20 April 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
High school science students are being instructed by teachers with only a basic grasp of physics and chemistry. John Rice, Dean of Science at UTS, said declining science teaching standards had been obvious for a decade with little action from Federal or State governments. A huge injection of resources was needed to get qualified graduates into science teaching.

Dr Ian Cornford (20 April 2005)
Education
Campus Review Weekly
The skills shortages gaining much media coverage are symptomatic of a much more serious set of problems concerning good governance in Australia. Vocational education and training expert Dr Ian Cornford says skill shortages are no more or less than the result of poor planning, poor policy formation and implementation and concomitant lack of accountability by both Federal and state governments of all political persuasions.

Professor Michael Ford (20 April 2005)
Institute of Nanoscale Technology
Courier Mail
Science's next big thing is tiny - technology so small you will be wearing it. Michael Ford, Associate Director of UTS's Nanoscale Technology Institute said nanotechnology was widely misunderstood and was not just about making technology smaller. Australian consumers were already benefiting from nanotechnology introduced in the past 18 months such as clear gel sunscreens, cosmetics with transparent sun protection and Pilkington's Activ glass with a coating that uses sunlight and rain to remain clean.

Dr David Higgins (21 April 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Australian Financial Review
Investors have a clear profile of the value of Australia's investment property for the first time, thanks to research produced by Dr David Higgins from UTS.

Professor Vicki Sara (21 April 2005)
Executive and Admin
The Glebe
Diversity in higher education is important but university research must continue according to new UTS Chancellor Vicki Sara. Speaking at her installation ceremony last week, the Chancellor expressed her opposition to elements of Federal Minister Brendan Nelson's 'Building Universitys' Diversity' issues paper launched in March. "The basis of research is asking questions, debating and inquiring, which is the basis for university education," Professor Sara said.

Dr Brian Reedy (22 April 2005)
Science
ABC
Forensic scientists are hoping to finger criminals who leave their prints on plastic banknotes using a novel imaging technique and super glue. Researchers from UTS and the Australian Federal Police have joined forces to develop the technique, which combines imaging under infrared light and fuming super glue or ethyl cyanoacrylate. Dr Brian Reedy from UTS says the new method allows forensic scientists to detect chemicals on the surface of a banknote that would not usually be visible to the human eye.

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (23 April 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, the Director of the Transforming Cultural Research Centre at UTS, comments on the difference between people who live in inner-city Sydney and those who live in outer suburbs. She notes that an efficient public transport system can result in communities being disconnected.

Associate Professor Chris Nash (25 April 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Big Issue Australia
Associate Professor Chris Nash, Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at UTS, discusses various current threats to freedom of the press.

Dr Michael Hill (26 April 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
The Master of Animation at UTS is the first of its kind in Australia. It is a cross-faculty program providing students with grounding in traditional animation and then moving into three-dimensional computer imaging. Course co-ordinator Michael Hill says, "We are not prescriptive about what job you can get after this course, they are using animation now everywhere."

Malcolm McKenzie (26 April 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Further study can be the key to a new career. Malcolm McKenzie, Manager of UTS Careers Service, says he sees a lot of people doing postgraduate courses who are changing careers. "They feel they need a new challenge, they see better opportunities in different areas. A lot of engineering people go into finance which requires similar sorts of analytical skills. Anyone thinking of doing further study in order to change careers really needs to look into it carefully and make an informed decision rather than a gut feeling."

Simon Walsh (27 April 2005)
Science
The Australian
The trial in the Peter Falconio murder case was postponed last week to allow new DNA evidence to be investigated. LCN, developed in 1999, is an ultra-sensitive technique that allows scientists to produce DNA profiles from tiny samples. Simon Walsh, a lecturer in forensic biology at UTS, discusses the use of the technique.

Professor Geoff Smith & Jim Franklin (27 April 2005)
Science
The Australian
Physicists at UTS have developed a lighting system that pipes sunlight from a rooftop panel direct to a ceiling or wall fitting several storeys below, or on the gloomy south side of a building. The light is heat-free and contains no ultraviolet rays. Physicists Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin have spent the past 15 years developing the product which will be on the market by the middle of next year.

Alice Watkins (27 April 2005)
Information Technology
Computerworld Australia
IT vendors are playing a much more active role in university offerings by sponsoring relevant courses and providing input into course development. Alice Watkins, Director of Industry Liaison at UTS, said sponsors play an invaluable role in helping shape a strong future for the IT profession in Australia.

Peter James, IT Manager (29 April 2005)
Executive and Admin
Computerworld & Computerworld Australia
IT providers will be forced to take greater responsibility for application breaches and poorly-designed software as local customers embrace an emerging trend which includes suing vendors. Peter James, joint IT Manager at UTS, said he would love the opportunity to sue vendors but such action had to be realistic. "It would have to be a really bad breach to even consider taking a vendor to court."

Jennifer Burn (29 April 2005)
Law
ABC Radio National
Jennifer Burn, a senior law lecturer at UTS says she was shocked to find out the numbers of people who are being trafficked for sex. She discusses how a new anti-slavery project will help these women.

Alison Gwilt (30 April 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Weekend Australian
Lee Lin Chin, Fashionista's flamboyant host looks at three graduate collections and the students behind them from UTS. The head of the UTS fashion program Alison Gwilt said, "Students at UTS focus on being commercial, which is OK but you don't have to lose your integrity in regards to original design."

Dr Lou De Filipis (30 April 2005)
Science
Daily Telegraph
Confused trees are the legacy of Sydney's autumn that never was. Environmental scientist Lou De Filipis from UTS said trees need cooler weather before losing their leaves. The leaves will stay on the trees until there is a suitable trigger.