Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (August 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Independent
Political crimes such as terror bombings have been responsible for ethnic groups becoming victims - all because of the acts of others. An extensive survey by Andrew Jakubowicz from UTS in 2004 found that "certain communities experience a level of prejudice and discrimination that is far greater than figures revealed by State and Federal agencies."

Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis (1 August 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Australian Financial Review
Architects and town planners anxious to climb the promotions ladder are turning their attention to postgraduate property qualifications as an entree into management and senior financial roles. Angelo Karantonis, who heads the school of construction, property and project management at UTS says, "The master's program is versatile for graduates to work as analysts for, say, an investment or retail bank if the property development market goes into a decline."

Professor Caroline Homer (1 August 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Caroline Homer, who teaches at the Centre for Midwifery and Family Health at UTS, talks about midwifery. It is still a woman's world of 55 midwives in training at UTS - two are men. Most students come through Nursing but UTS now offers a three-year bachelor of midwifery. "The job entails supporting women caring for their babies," she says.

Margaret Burchett (2 August 2005)
Science
Narrabri Courier
Dr Margaret Burchett from UTS with her research team have tested three planting regimes, including many small plants versus a few large plants, in an office environment and found that microorganisms in the soil are just as important as the plant in the air cleansing process.

Dr Sarah Edelman (2 August 2005)
Science
Fraser Coast Chronicle
A new survey has found that most people enjoy getting up to go to work. Dr Sarah Edelman, a psychologist from UTS, said taking a break from work was essential for both a person's physical and mental health. "Participating in leisure activities, whether it's holidays and travel, playing sport, going out with friends or doing anything you enjoy, provides a counterbalance to the demands and stresses of daily life."

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (2 August 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW Government has abandoned a midwife project at Mona Vale and Manly hospitals, leaving up to 200 women scrambling to find places at other hospitals. Sally Tracy, an Associate Professor of Midwifery Practice Development at UTS said there was no reason to defer the program. "I have no doubt that they have been bullied into not allowing this service to go ahead. Clearly there are people who have vested interests in this, who do not want to see a service where women go to midwives".

Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis (2 August 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC North Coast (NSW) Lismore
Associate Professor Angelo Karantonis from UTS discusses that the Australian property market has not yet attached the premium value on resource efficient developments that those developments deserve. At this stage, he says, developers in NSW who are using the Government-introduced BASIX principles are finding they are getting no higher price for their developments than they would have previously.

Dr Catherine Robinson (8 August 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Interview with Dr Catherine Robinson, Lecturer in Social Inquiry at UTS. Research has shown that there is a critical shortage of crisis accommodation for homeless women in Western Sydney.

Professor Claude Roux (8 August 2005)
Science
MX Sydney
The director of the UTS Centre for Forensic Science, Professor Claude Roux, says Australians need to remember that US shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its spin-offs are not real life.

Dr Sarah Edelman (9 August 2005)
Science
ABC New England North West (Tamworth)
There are many benefits in hugging and being hugged. Research studies have shown that physical contact and stimulation can have positive developmental effects on a child's growth both emotionally and physically. Brain chemicals are stimulated by touch, says Dr Sarah Edelman from UTS.

Val Horridge (9 August 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
ABC Online
New designers are stealing the show. Val Horridge, Senior Lecturer in fashion at UTS says, "There are many more young designers out there feeling like they have got room to have a say, so we are getting more young entrepreneurial designers. They are quite confident."

Dr Deidre Cobbin and Christopher Zaslawski (10 August 2005)
Science
Parramatta Sun
Christine Berle, a Guildford businesswoman is seeking 30 volunteers to test the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of hepatitis C. Ms Berle is undertaking the study for a Master of Science thesis at UTS. Her study is being undertaken with UTS academics Christopher Zaslawski and Dr Deidre Cobbin.

Catherine Killen (10 August 2005)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald
Making university choices is hard and it's about to get harder. A new range of possibilities for undergraduate study is unfolding for 2006. Engineering innovation is more than the latest buzzword, it's the main driver of business growth, according to Catherine Killen from the Faculty of Engineering at UTS. Killen says graduates from the new Innovation Engineering major will be well placed to realise creative ides or inventions.

Geof Hawke (10 August 2005)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
An ageing population and rapid change are putting the pressure on adult education. Australia needs more mature-aged students, including in universities, according to Geof Hawke, senior research fellow at Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning (OVAL) Research, UTS. Hawke says adult education is necessary for the Australian workforce to be competitive.

Dr Andrew West (12 August 2005)
Science
Channel 2
Interview with Dr Andrew West a Marine Biologist from UTS who is analysing Pacific blue marlin. He has moved to Hawaii in his quest to find baby marlin to learn more about them. However overfishing has caused a sharp decline in the numbers of the marlin. This troubles West who states that they need to know the full life cycle so that management plans can be put in place.

Chris Zaslawski (12 August 2005)
College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Science
Sydney Morning Herald
Original research is an exciting way to build expertise and help others. Christine Berle is undertaking research for a Master of Science degree at the UTS College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to find out if acupuncture could help people with hepatitis C. These studies could move Chinese medicine treatments further into the mainstream and give this form of therapy more authority among professionals, says Chris Zaslawski, Director of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Professor Jane Hall (12 August 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Irish Times
The Health Minister's proposal of 1,000 beds in new investor-owned for-profit hospitals (PPPs), will not meet the public need and is likely to result in a "rip-off" health service. Jane Hall, Professor of Health Economics at UTS, suggests why Government is going down this road. In a paper published in the British Medical Journal in February, dealing with recent health policy reforms in Australia, it is suggested that "creating cost inflation and greater inequity in healthcare pays politically."

Professor Jill McKeough, Dean (14 August 2005)
Law
Radio 2GB
Jill McKeough, a copyright law expert and Dean of Law at UTS, discusses the Glen McGrath extortion story involving letters written by his mother. McKeough says there are two types of ownership, intellectual and property. The writer of the letter is the creator of the copyright, but if the letter is sent then the physical item is owned by the recipient.

Jeff FitzGerald (16 August 2005)
Executive and Admin
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Voluntary student unionism protests scale new heights. Two UTS outdoor adventure club members abseiled down the UTS Tower building suspending a banner reading "No VSU, Save Uni Life". UTS Registrar Dr Jeff FitzGerald said there was strong opposition to the Government's VSU proposals. Activities and services such as orientation programs, improvement of sporting facilities, multicultural events, child care and equity programs would be hard hit.

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (17 August 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
According to new research a mother's anxiety during pregnancy may predispose her babies to depression in later life. Such children retain elevated stress hormones for as long as 10 years after birth. Associate Professor of midwifery at UTS Sally Tracy said the findings emphasised the need to provide support for women throughout pregnancy and the early years of motherhood.

Malcolm McKenzie (21 August 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sun Herald
Year 12 students making big decisions about their future and education experts agree on one thing - there are many different paths to a dream job. Malcolm McKenzie, careers manager at UTS, said students should speak to academic staff at open days to understand what a course involved.

Anne Bamford (22 August 2005)
Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
UTS Senior Lecturer Anne Bamford is on sabbatical at London University and explains her work as a creative arts teacher. Bamford explains the differences between UTS and London University, and says funding is a lot easier in the UK. She misses Sydney, the beaches and Tim Tams.

Professor Andrew Mowbray (23 August 2005)
Law
The Age, Sydney Morning Herald
The ARC is providing $100,000 to create an integrated international legal research network to supplant the WorldLII and AustLII databases. The UTS project will focus on turning this existing environment into a richer and more reliable network for research, says Professor Andrew Mowbray.

Dr James Goodman (23 August 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Radio Adelaide (National Australia)
In a speech addressed to the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, the Federal Treasurer expressed his concern of growing anti-Americanism amongst Australians. Dr James Goodman, Senior Lecturer in social inquiry at UTS argues against Peter Costello's accusations. Dr. Goodman thinks Costello's comments are hilarious and his conclusion is ludicrous. He says Costello believes anti-Americanism is a result of teaching which is a bizarre leap of logic.

Associate Professor Kevin Broady (23 August 2005)
Science
Radio Adelaide
Professor Kevin Broady talks about peanut allergies. He indicates that a report out of America suggests that since the period 1997 to 2000 the number of people allergic to peanuts has tripled. He says that in future biotechnology may be able to create a non-allergic peanut, however there are multiple allergens in peanuts which will make this difficult.

Simon Walsh (24 August 2005)
Science
Armidale Independent, Northern Daily Leader, Walcha News
A day of scientific adventure at the University of New England has enabled more than 320 regional high school students to study their natural environment both in close-up detail and from the perspective of space. Simon Walsh from UTS discussed forensic science as just one example of the fascinating career paths open to science graduates, describing how forensic scientists go about analysing evidence from the scene of a crime.

Jamila Hussain (25 August 2005)
Law
The Australian
Sharia and Australian law already coexisted, an Islamic expert said yesterday, criticising Peter Costello for urging Muslims who did not believe in our legal system to leave the country. Jamila Hussain, Muslim Women's National Network spokeswoman and law lecturer at UTS said, "If Peter Costello is going to criticise sharia law, he first of all has to decide what he means by sharia law and where it conflicts with Australian law, and I don't think he knows what he is talking about."

Ursula Munro (25 August 2005)
Science
ABC 720 Perth
Why did the chicken cross the road? The answer could be a built-in compass. Ursula Munro of UTS is working with a number of other researchers to find out how chickens find their way around using the Earth's magnetic field and she explains why chickens are used for the project.

Associate Professor Lyn Schaverien (25 August 2005)
Education
The Age
Pervasive technology coupled with children's pester power only adds challenges to our already complex lives. Associate Professor Lynette Schaverien from UTS says there are plenty of very complex, rich, exciting video games children can learn a lot from. "Sometimes education can be a very single-track proposition that teachers set and expect, but in technological contexts there can be multi-level narratives so children can learn to develop solutions to multi-factor situations."

Dr Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (25 August 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
The Glebe
Dr Sandra Kaji-O'Grady has been appointed head of the architecture school at UTS. Dr Kaji-O'Grady is one of only two women leading architecture schools at Australian universities.

Professor Michael Adams (26 August 2005)
Law
Lawyers Weekly
Online research facilities have opened up the world to legal practitioners. Professor Michael Adams from the Faculty of Law at UTS says there is now a greater expectation from the courts that lawyers be completely up to date on case law. If there has been a High Court decision or a South Australian Supreme Court decision, you are expected to know about it.

Professor Richard Johnstone (28 August 2005)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
Learning and teaching is a slogan whose time has come. Richard Johnstone Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching & Learning) at UTS says it has always been core business for universities. "What we have seen happen in the last 10 years or so is an attempt to ensure that we don't take our core business for granted." Professor Johnstone has been named this month as founding executive director of the Carrick Institute, a new body to promote learning and teaching in higher education.

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (29 August 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
Obstetricians are rallying to fight the birth of independent midwife units. Sally Tracy, Associate Professor of midwifery practice development at UTS, said women should have a choice of birthing methods. "I want women to choose - it's time we got over this nonsense of doctors telling women what to do."

Lynn Chenoweth (29 August 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
On the Job profile: Lynn Chenoweth is a professor of aged-care nursing at UTS. "My job is primarily about leading research teams and teaching post and undergraduate students. I am heavily involved with policy development and advocacy in anything to do with ageing."

Dr James Goodman (31 August 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Daily Telegraph
They are vehemently against globalisation, but can the Forbes Conference protesters avoid it. Using computers to spread their message, via the Internet and mobile phones to organise it, it is ironic that protest organisers relied on products made by global corporate giants to ensure the protest went ahead. Dr James Goodman, social inquiry lecturer at UTS, said corporations needed to give more back to communities and while they were not donors, they relied on products and labour to help them profit.