Dr Michael Hill (February 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Internet AU
Starting this year, students with a passion for animation can enrol for Australia's first Master of Animation. Dr Michael Hill says the course has been developed in response to growing industry demand for creative professionals to update their skills in line with rapid advancements in technology.

Professor Zoltan Matolcsy (February 2005)
Business
Management Information Strategies
On 1 January 2005 new global accounting standards came into practice. According to Professor Zoltan Matolcsy from UTS's Faculty of Business, the global standard which has been brewing for over a decade now, simply does not recognise the need to align the reporting standards with the change in the nature of corporate investment.

Ronald Woods (February 2005)
Science
Property Australia
Ronald Woods from UTS says certain plant varieties such as Kentia Palms or Peace Lily can remove pollutants from indoor air within 24 hours. These statistics offer sound reasons for building managers to increase their use of indoor plants, and for architects and designers to integrate plants into designs at an early stage.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (1 February 2005)
Jumbunna, Law
Australian Financial Review
Profile of Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS. Behrendt says the person who influenced her the most is Roberta Sykes, the first Aboriginal woman to go to Harvard. "Without her I would not have gone. The legal profession is sexist, but it is a 'walk in the park' after Aboriginal politics."

Mark Tietjen (1 February 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
Mark Tietjen, Financial Assistance Officer for student information services at UTS says managing finances can be difficult for first-year students. "Part of my job is to talk to students about budgets and most of them have no idea."

Anne Bartlett-Bragg (1 February 2005)
Education
Image and Data Manager
Anne Bartlett-Bragg discusses the phenomenal growth of 'blogging' - the practice of maintaining an online public journal. Bartlett-Bragg believes that the recent explosion of web logs is only the tip of the iceberg and we can expect even greater things from this 'new medium' in the future.

Professor Mike Cortie, Director (2 February 2005)
Institute for Nanoscale Technology
ABC Radio National, ABC 666 Canberra, ABC Online
The Hewlett-Packard company claims it is on the verge of a revolution in computer chip technology. Mike Cortie discusses the importance of the development.

Professor Derek Eamus (2 February 2005)
Science
ABC Online
So-called 'natural capitalism' may be the next big thing that benefits the environment and entrepreneurs. "The smart money will be with someone who can combine economic, legal and ecological knowledge," says environmental scientist Professor Derek Eamus.

Associate Professor Chris Nash (3 February 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Discussion of claims by Health Minister Tony Abbot that the Canberra press gallery is prone to left-wing bias and "group think". Author of "Fit to Print" and "Latham's World", Margaret Simons, says that the press gallery is broadly centrist in politics, but that the tendency to group think is a real problem. Chris Nash, the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism agrees with Ms Simons and outlines why.

Associate Professor Paula Hamilton (4 February 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
A discussion of memories and objects that trigger them. Historian Paula Hamilton from UTS says that many people collect objects to teach lessons, to remember, or to feel part of something bigger.

Professor David Barker and Professor Jill McKeough (4 February 2005)
Law
Australian Financial Review
The Dean of Law at UTS, Professor David Barker is stepping down in March and will be replaced by Professor Jill McKeough. Professor Barker has just finished his term of chairman of the Council of Australian Law Deans and is also relinquishing his role as convenor of the NSW law deans and his membership of the NSW Legal Practitioners Admission Board.

Dr Barbara Leigh (4 February 2005)
Institute for International Studies
ABC Radio National, ABC Online
Barbara Leigh, who has lived and worked in Aceh, discusses the people of Aceh and the tsunami disaster. "In Australian minds, the challenge is not just to respond to the humanitarian need, but to understand more about our neighbour. This would be an apt time for the Australian Government to take an initiative to boost the declining numbers of Australians studying Indonesian in schools and universities."

Professor Jill White (4 February 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
North Shore Times
Reversing the dire shortage of midwives underpins UTS's decision to offer a Bachelor of Midwifery for the first time in NSW. Professor Jill White, Dean of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, says the course will allow students to become midwives without doing a nursing degree first.

Wayne Peake (4 February 2005)
Institute for International Studies
Sydney Morning Herald
Wayne Peake, a research administrator at the Institute of International Studies at UTS, discusses how women have salvaged dwindling numbers going to the Races.

Dr Michael Hill (5 February 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
UTS has a new animation course that involves collaboration between three UTS faculties.

Dr Sally Tracy (6 February 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sun Herald
Childbirth experts are warning that new mothers who chose to give birth by caesarean section are exposing themselves and their babies to serious health risks. Sally Tracy, Associate Professor of Midwifery at UTS, says there has been a dramatic increase in the number of healthy women choosing to have caesarean sections with the consequent risk of haemorrhage and hysterectomy in the next pregnancy, and a higher risk of stillbirth and maternal death.

Associate Professor David Booth (6 February 2005)
Science
South Coast Weekly, ABC South East NSW (Bega)
Scientists from UTS are studying tropical fish from the northern reefs that hitch a ride south during late summer on the Eastern Australian Current. They are very specific in where they want to go, says marine ecologist David Booth, they are not just passive particles that get washed along with the current.

Professor Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin (8 February 2005)
Science
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
A new technology is about to become available for owners of dark and gloomy houses as researchers from UTS prepare to commercialise their "daylighting" invention though Five Dock company Skydome Holdings. After 15 years of research, a team led by applied physicists and daylight experts Professor Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin, has developed a groundbreaking technology which 'pipes' natural, heat free sunlight anywhere in a building.

Professor Ashley Craig (8 February 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald
In 1996, scientists at UTS developed software allowing electrical devices to be activated by brain waves. In 2002 Professor Ashley Craig led a trial in which severely disabled people learnt to use the "Mind Switch" technology to turn on a television and change channels, showing it had the the potential to improve the lives of millions of disabled people around the world.

Dr Simon Darcy (8 February 2005)
Business
ABC Online
Australians will do almost anything for a bit more leisure and pleasure and pay well for it too. A report released last year comments we work the longest hours in the world - the average Australian works around 1855 hours a year compared to the international average of 1643.
As a result there is a commercialisation of leisure to a degree not seen before, says Simon Darcy, Senior Lecturer at UTS.

Professor Derek Eamus (9 February 2005)
Science
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Professor Derek Eamus, Director of the Institute for Water and Environmental Research at UTS, discusses the concept of "carbon credits" as a means of promoting greenhouse gas abatement. Eamus says the idea is to provide an incentive for companies to cut their emissions, but so far in Europe the scheme is not doing that well.

Professor Geoff Riordan (9 February 2005)
Education
Radio JJJ
Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson wants a national system of high school exams. Education academic Associate Professor Geoff Riordan from UTS says he is not opposed to exams or national benchmarks, but is concerned these exams and benchmarks drive the whole educational experience of children.

Professor Andrew Gonczi, Dean (10 February 2005)
Education
Australian Financial Review
Article on students having a say in their own schooling. Andrew Gonczi Dean of Education at UTS describes an experimental school within Adelaide University. "There are no classrooms - none. There are computer labs and open spaces all over the place so you can quickly set up desks and give a lecture, but it's much more informal than that. There is always a teacher there but very rarely in a classroom setting. It is early days to say how this experience is working but the kids are loving it."

Dr Nong Zhang (10 February 2005)
Engineering
Sydney Morning Herald, Newcastle Herald
The engineering faculty of UTS is claiming a world first with the development of a powertrain testing rig allowing engines and transmissions to be put through their paces without the need of a car, a road or even a driver. Motorists will see the results in next-generation 'continuous sensing' transmission systems that can be adjusted to suit individual driving styles and road conditions says Dr Nong Zhang.

Professor David Goodman, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) (13 February 2005)
Executive and Admin
ABC Radio National
A panel including David Goodman discusses China's move to centre stage in world affairs and the challenges posed for Australian foreign and economic policy.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (16 February 2005)
Jumbunna
Canberra Times
The end of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra is near. In the discussion of its significance Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS, is quoted: "We can measure the effectiveness and fairness of our laws and institutions by assessing the impact on Indigenous people."

Professor Shirley Alexander, Director (16 February 2005)
Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
Campus Review Weekly
The largest survey of its kind undertaken in Australia has found widespread satisfaction among academics and students with electronic transmission of teaching material and information about courses, timetables and subjects. The study was conducted by a team of researchers from the five ATN universities and led by Professor Shirley Alexander, Director of the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at UTS.

Associate Professor Di Brown (17 February 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Sydney Morning Herald
The way nurses are viewed in the workplace has changed says Associate Professor Di Brown from the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at UTS. They are now seen much more as colleagues. "It's a more mature relationship really. Doctors are collaborating with nurses, discussing patient care and asking their advice."

Professor Stuart White (17 February 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Channel 7 Today Tonight
North Sydney Council says owners of V8 four-wheel drives will be charged more than regular cars for permits to park outside their homes. The philosophy behind this is to give a bonus to people doing the right thing driving hybrid cars or the small four cylinder cars and people who are driving the fuel guzzlers should pay a bit more. Director of the Institute of Sustainable Futures, Stuart White, believes the council is "bang on the money".

Andrew Lynch (18 February 2005)
Law
The Australian
The number of cases in which the High Court delivered a single opinion was up by 11 per cent on 2003, according to figures to be presented to a conference today. A report co-authored by senior law lecturer Andrew Lynch from UTS and constitutional law expert Professor George Williams found the court handed down 61 decisions last year, down from 73 in 2003.

Simon Walsh (21 February 2005)
Science
NEW FM (Newcastle)
In a world first, a handbook for the use of DNA evidence by police scientists in court is being launched in Sydney today.

Dr Lydia Ievleva (22 February 2005)
Business
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Dr Lydia Ievleva, sports and health psychology academic at UTS, says studies show people who were in love heal from physical wounds faster than those who were depressed and lonely. "When people are not happy in a relationship their immune system becomes depressed, they become vulnerable to colds and infection or in the worst case they can leave themselves open to developing cancer further down the track".

Pru Black (23 February 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building, Insearch,
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Discussion with Pru Black covers the etiquette of air kissing, an exhibition of Japanese and Danish design forms at the Opera House, a free talk at the Opera House by a famous Spanish design duo and Joern Utzon's exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.

Dr Christina Ho (24 February 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Christina Ho discusses the treatment of a Sri Lankan-born estimator who was dropped by an employer apparently as a result of dissatisfaction with his written English. This week the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal found he had suffered indirect race discrimination. Dr Ho says the case goes to the heart of how cultural diversity is managed in Australian workplaces. "Many workplaces have not adequately adapted their business practices to utilise skills of people from non-English speaking backgrounds".

Simon Walsh (25 February 2005)
Science
Lawyers Weekly
A world first handbook for lawyers, police and scientists on the use of DNA evidence was launched this week at UTS. Legal practitioners need to understand along with other 'lay' audiences, the process and potential pitfalls to ensure forensic DNA evidence is used to its full potential said co-editor and DNA expert Simon Walsh from the UTS Centre for Forensic Science.

Associate Professor Ron Bird and Sarah Azzi (25 February 2005)
Business
Financial Times, London
Changes in analysts' recommendations are often cited as the prime reason for sharp moves in individual stocks according to research by Associate Professor Ron Bird and Sarah Azzi from UTS.

Professor Shirley Alexander (26 February 2005)
Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
The Australian Higher Education
Online learning is most helpful when it comes to helping participants juggle work, study and family commitments, according to a survey led by Shirley Alexander, Director of the Institute of Interactive Media and Learning at UTS. She says the overview of results is very positive, particularly in view of the increasingly complex nature of students' lives. "Some students say they would prefer face-to-face teaching, but they don't have the time and part-time students were also more likely to agree that e-learing saves them time."

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (28 February 2005)
Jumbunna
ABC 666 Canberra
Discussion about Aboriginal land rights. Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS Larissa Behrendt says the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act is a good model for national legislation.

Professor Jock Collins (28 February 2005)
Business
ABC Radio 702 Sydney
Interview with UTS Professor Jock Collins, an expert in youth crime in Western Sydney. On the question of the problems in Macquarie Fields Professor Collins says that there are neighbourhood issues and issues of socio-economic inequality to address along with issues of masculinity and the lack of positive role models for boys.