Dr Yusuf Pisan ( March 2005)
Information Technology
Australian Personal Computer
Artificial intelligence is poised to make computers smarter, more responsive and more adaptable. "The challenge of AI is to discover the nature of intelligence" says Yusuf Pisan, Senior Lecturer in the IT Faculty at UTS. "We have lots of ideas about the components of intelligence but we need a more advanced understanding of how they work together".

Associate Professor Sally Tracy ( March 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Nursing Review
Article written by Sally Tracy, Associate Professor of Midwifery and Health at UTS. Five years ago the Australian Senate called for a national inquiry into childbirth procedures. The subsequent report stated "that while women acknowledge the contribution of the medical profession to Australia's low mortality rates they are generally concerned by the extent to which childbirth has been medicalised. This has led to a significant increase in the level of intervention and consequent morbidity and in the disempowerment of the women giving birth."

Professor Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin ( March 2005)
Science
Australasian Science
A long promised technology is about to achieve commercial release with the signing of an agreement between Australian company Skydome and UTS. Skydome will manufacture flexible light guides capable of transmitting light from the roof or walls of a building to its centre. "It's the realisation of an ideal - daylight available almost anywhere it is needed, on any floor of a building, with virtually no associated heat or ultraviolet radiation said co-inventor Professor Geoff Smith.

Professor Stuart White ( March 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Waste Management & Environment
Article written by Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS on how Australia will manage its waste management over the coming years.

John Petty ( March 2005)
Business
My Business
Statistics and experience confirms that businesses have a chance of surviving a disaster if they can be back up and operating within five days of a disaster writes John Petty, Lecturer in the Faculty of Business.

Dr Kendal McGuffie ( March 2005)
Science
Australasian Science
Dr Kendal McGuffie, a physicist at UTS, is one of two scientists who have discovered a new tool for testing global warming and deforestation using rainfall information collected over 40 years from sites in the Amazon jungle and the Andes mountains.

Professor Andrew Benajmin and Steve Hatzellis ( March 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Property Australia
UTS will offer Australia's first Master of Digital Architecture from the middle of this year. The course is being developed by Professor Andrew Benjamin and digital architect Steve Hatzellis.

Anne Bartlett-Bragg (2 March 2005)
Education
ABC Online
The internet hasn't turned out to be a publishing gold mine but people are still trying to squeeze cash out of cyberspace. Anne Bartlett-Bragg a lecturer at UTS, says "The potential for business is there, you only need to think about the power of a global audience and readership to realise that."

Dr Kendal McGuffie (3 March 2005)
Science
AAP, Sydney Morning Herald, Gladstone Observer
Australian nuclear researchers believe that they may have discovered the world's first independent and accurate measure of climate change. ANSTO researcher Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers and Dr Kendal McGuffie from UTS found that rare naturally occurring water isotopes accurately measure deforestation and greenhouse impacts.

Professor Mark Lyons (4 March 2005)
Business
The Australian
Corporations internationally are moving away from the practice of donating money simply "because someone's pulling our heartstrings". The emphasis is on a more strategic approach to giving. Mark Lyons, a Professor of Social Economy at UTS, says corporate donations still make up a relatively small portion of Australia's overall giving.

Dr Jane Hall, Director (4 March 2005)
CHERE
ABC 612 Brisbane
Compere talks about recent rises in health premiums, and a listener calls in to talk about 'managed care'. He speaks with Dr Jane Hall Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research at UTS who says there are two aspects to managed care as it is run in the US - managed competition, more negotiations between companies and doctors. Dr Hall denies Australia is moving towards a managed health system.

Megan Heyward (5 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia is about four years behind Europe and Asia when it comes to using mobile platforms for content such as video and music, partly because of our high mobile data transmission costs and geographic isolation. Megan Heyward a senior lecturer in media arts and production at UTS agrees Australia is lagging but she has noticed more interest in mobile screen technology in the past 18 months among people working in new media and film.

Professor David Booth (6 March 2005)
Science
Sun Herald
Marine Biologist Professor David Booth from UTS said the East Australian Current has this year pushed a record number of tropical fish down from Queensland to Sydney and the NSW South Coast.

Bronwyn Holland (7 March 2005)
Engineering
Australian Financial Review
The latest equity data from the Department of Education, Science and Training shows that the rate at which women are enrolling in engineering degrees has significantly declined over the past seven years. At UTS the Director of the Women in Engineering program, Bronwyn Holland, says the faculty's program of more than 20 years has sustained above-average female enrolments.

Dr Naomi Stead (7 March 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Sydney Morning Herald
CBD's squat tower at 126 Phillip Street divides the critics. The design, which slopes 31 floors from north to south, was constrained by planning controls to keep the sun shining into Martin Place. Dr Naomi Stead, acting Head of Architecture at UTS said the building's slope was reminiscent of the famous American World War II memorial of marines raising their flag at Iwa Jima.

Dr Justine Lloyd (7 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
ABC Radio National
Discussion with Dr Justine Lloyd from UTS, co-author of 'Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife'. She discusses the history of the changing image of housewives, activism and the feminist movement.

Dr Carolyn Currie (7 March 2005)
Business
ABC Radio National
Discussion about Australia's rail system with Dr. Carolyn Currie, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business at UTS. Dr Currie states that Australia's rail system is antiquated and needs to be fixed to provide a $27billion boost to the national economy.

Eva Cox (8 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Sydney Morning Herald
Eva Cox, a senior lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS, comments on a report on International Women's Day stating that there is not one country where women are truly equal with men. "We certainly have more women in positions of power than we had, we have more women earning higher incomes and they are better educated, but we haven't changed our work culture nearly enough," she says

Professor Jill White, Dean (9 March 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
The Australian
Universities are struggling to meet the need for nurses. Midwifery is coming into its own as a direct entry undergraduate degree. UTS Professor and Dean of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Jill White says "It means people who are particularly interested in working in maternity care, as opposed to general health care, can now fast-track their career by several years."

Chris Zaslawski (9 March 2005)
Science
The Australian
UTS is one of only a handful of Australian universities offering degrees in Chinese medicine. Director of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at UTS Chris Zaslawski says the "highly stimulating courses attract a lot of mature age students. We teach the collected knowledge of 2500 years of practice in China."

Professor Jane Hall (9 March 2005)
CHERE
Biotech Week
Australia is being held up as a model of how to increase use of private healthcare in the United Kingdom. Professor Jane Hall from UTS says "The ideological focus of these reforms makes them attractive to those who prefer private institutions to fund healthcare."

Professor Mark Lyons (11 March 2005)
Business
ABC Online
Not-for-profit companies need more than a heart of gold to succeed. "One third of kids in Australia are educated in not-for-profit schools," says Professor Mark Lyons from UTS.

Mark Tahtouh (12 March 2005)
Science
New Scientist
A new technique has been devised that can reveal who has handled Australian polymer banknotes. Using a form of infrared imaging Mark Tahtouh and his colleagues at UTS, along with Chris Lennard from the Australian Federal Police, are now able to reconstruct the image of a fingerprint even on difficult regions of the banknote.

Dr Geoff Riordan (12 March 2005)
Education
Sydney Morning Herald
Parent power has become the driving force in schools, despite resistance from teachers.
Dr Geoff Riordan, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at UTS says "this week's public spats between parents and schools in the private and public sector proves there is a dire need to find a better way to involve parents in decision-making."

Professor Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin (15 March 2005)
Science
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Revolutionary Australian technology that 'pipes' heat-free natural light anywhere in a building is to be commercialised in a partnership between Australian company Skydome holdings and UTS. The team is led by Professor Geoff Smith and Jim Franklin from the Faculty of Science.

Malcolm McKenzie (16 March 2005)
Executive and Admin
Sydney Morning Herald
As this year's university careers fairs roll around, employers are preparing to do much more than sit behind stalls hoping to get attention. Malcolm McKenzie, the Manager of the careers service at UTS, says "there is a lot more interest in recruiting graduates, there are some companies we have not had on campus before and those who have are talking about recruiting larger numbers."

Sue Halbwirth (17 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian
The knowledge management strand has been offered as a postgraduate diploma and degree courses for a surprising six years at UTS. A second surprise to academics is the widely varied ages and qualifications of people seeking the qualifications. Those who have chosen this focused subject enjoy small classes says Sue Halbwirth, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Distinguished Professor Dexter Dunphy (17 March 2005)
Business
Pharmacy News
Professor Dexter Dunphy from UTS is leader of the change management and community pharmacy project. He provided APP delegates on the Gold Coast recently with a whirlwind tour through the findings of the "Change Management and Community Pharmacy" research project. Professor Dunphy has worked as a consultant to a raft of Australian industries and companies facing a changing environment.

Associate Professor David Booth (18 March 2005)
Science
ABC South East NSW (Bega)
Marine Biologist David Booth, from UTS spoke about the tropical fish that are being found off the NSW South Coast and the distance that some of the fish can travel and the breeds that have been found, including rainbow and butterfly fish.

Ray Leslie (18 March 2005)
Information Technology
itnews.com.au
A scholarship has been granted to Daniel Neilson, the first indigenous student in the Bachelor of Information Technology degree at UTS. Ray Leslie, indigenous participation in IT project manager, said " the project was begun in response to research findings that not only were few Aboriginal people employed in IT, it was not even on their radar as a career option."

Professor Mike Ford (19 March 2005)
Institute of Nanotechnology
ABC Radio National
Discussion on the study of nanotechnology in Australian universities. Professor Mike Ford who runs the Institute of Nanotechnology at UTS says "Nanotech has attracted many students back to science and is likely to be a growing industry in the future. The degree has been carefully structured so it is not just a repackaging of other degrees. Nanotech also needs to be introduced at schools at an earlier level."

Associate Professor Michael Dawson (19 March 2005)
Science
Weekend Australian
Trials of roadside saliva tests have, to date, proven unreliable. Forensic scientist Michael Dawson from UTS is unconvinced by claims from authorities that tweaking of protocols for collecting saliva samples has solved problems with false positives . "Time will tell" he concludes.

Dr Sarah Edelman (20 March 2005)
Science
Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Sunday Mail
Dr Sarah Edelman, a psychologist with UTS and author of 'Change Your Thinking', discusses feelings of regret and not letting them get the better of us. "Dealing with regret is about forgiving yourself and making a decision to get on with your life," says Dr Edelman.

Dr Carolyn Currie (21 March 2005)
Business
Daily Advertiser
The north-south rail route proposal has merit if Premier Bob Carr will only look. A public-private partnership as suggested by Carolyn Currie, Senior Lecturer at UTS, would take the political sting out of the otherwise exciting concept.

Professor Stuart White (22 March 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Northern Star
Installing water efficient appliances such as AAA rated shower heads has exactly the same positive outcome on our water supply as building a new dam" says Professor Stuart White, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS.

Michelle Zeibots (22 March 2005)
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Inner Western Suburbs Courier
Sydney transport planner Michelle Zeibots from the Institute of Sustainable Futures at UTS says the resurrected proposal for the F6 motorway would not solve traffic problems in the south Sydney area.

Mark Watsford (23 March 2005)
Business
AAP
Habitual exercise improves respiratory-muscle function in older adults. Seventy two healthy older adults undertook respiratory function and walking-performance tests conducted by Mark Watsford and his colleagues at UTS. "Active men and women achieved higher scores than their inactive counterparts for all tests except spirometry, where no differences were evident," he said.

Eva Cox (23 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Australian
The use of DNA testing for paternity cases is growing. Eva Cox, an academic at UTS fears that the increased emphasis on biological parenting detracts from the importance of social parenting. "The common feeling seems to be if you are not the biological parent you have no rights, we need to be more analytical about what we mean by fathering and mothering."

Associate Professor Sally Tracy (23 March 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Molong Express
Medical experts have warned that mothers who choose caesarean section to give birth could place themselves and their babies at serious risk. Dr Sally Tracy , Associate Professor of Midwifery at UTS said there had been a significant increase in the number of healthy mothers who had chosen caesarean sections. These mothers faced a higher risk of haemorrhage and hysterectomy in second or subsequent pregnancies - and there was a higher risk of stillbirth and maternal death.

Professor Margaret Burchett (23 March 2005)
Science
Parramatta Advertiser, Liverpool Leader, Blacktown Advocate, Fairfield Advance, Mt Druit St Marys Standard, North Shore Times, Northern District Times, Canterbury-Bankstown Express, Penrith Press, Macarthur Chronicle
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.

Dr Sarah Edelman and James Arvanitakis (26 March 2005)
Science
Weekend Australian
Surveys confirm that while we are consuming more we are enjoying life a lot less. In fact, we are working harder than ever to keep improving our financial and professional status, but the chase is leaving us emotionally and spiritually spent. Sarah Edelman, a research psychologist at UTS said "hyper-achievers at the pinnacle of their careers confess to being unbearably unhappy, they appear to 'have it all' but the pursuit of status and wealth creates huge amounts of stress and unhappiness." James Arvanitakis, a UTS academic, is an example of someone who changed his life and is now a much happier person.

Professor Shirley Alexander (27 March 2005)
Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
Sunday Telegraph
Plagiarism is becoming a common problem at universities around the world and is taken very seriously. Professor Shirley Alexander, Director of the Institute of Interactive Media and Learning at UTS sums it up - "It's important that the public have confidence that what students submit and what they get their degrees for is actually their own work."

Dr Jane Tarran (27 March 2005)
Science
Sun Herald
Lord Mayor Clover Moore recently hosted a Town Hall seminar on greening cities which was attended by Dr Jane Tarran, Senior Lecturer in Urban Ecology at UTS. Dr Tarran explored the benefits of well-managed urban vegetation, ranging from the aesthetic, ecological and psychological to the economic.

Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director (27 March 2005)
Jumbunna
ABC Radio National
Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at UTS has worked in Canada as a lawyer on a First Nation treaty renegotiation. Behrendt says "There is a fundamental difference between Canada's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples and Australia's."

Dr Anne Bamford (28 March 2005)
Education
Daily Telegraph
An independent school principal has recently criticised the Government's crackdown on mobile phones claiming it will not help prevent cyber-bullying. Dr Anne Bamford from the Faculty of Education at UTS contacted the principal on ways staff and students could equip themselves with anti-bullying strategies.

Jennifer Newman (29 March 2005)
Education
Radio Adelaide
New research shows there has been a 15 per cent decline in indigenous students starting university studies. Jennifer Newman a Lecturer in Education at UTS says "Students are finding they can't indulge in the luxury of higher education when so many other fundamental things need to be attended to."

Dr Jeff Fitzgerald (30 March 2005)
Executive and Admin
The Australian
Universities have been crunching a new set of numbers in anticipation of voluntary student unionism to identify which services they can afford to save and which will be axed. Dr Jeff Fitzgerald, Registrar at UTS, said the university was "frantically number crunching" to assess which services it could afford to cross-subsidise once student union fees were no longer collected. Dr Fitzgerald said VSU would kill the spirit of life on campus. "What will really suffer in universities is a great range of opportunities and challenges for students of all types and all sorts," he said.

Richard Cashman (31 March 2005)
Business
ABC Western Queensland
IOC members are in Brisbane ahead of the ballot to decide which city will host the 2012 Olympics. Richard Cashman who is the Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies at UTS describes the process cities go through when they bid for the Olympics. He describes the Sydney Olympic bid and predicts Paris will win the 2012 bid.

Professor Jill White, Dean (31 March 2005)
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
ABC National
Three indigenous students, Loretta Longbottom, Annette Kennedy and Felicity Cook are among a very select band who have begun the first Bachelor of Midwifery degree in NSW at UTS. Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at UTS, Professor Jill White, said graduates would readily find employment opportunities throughout Australia, particularly in rural and regional areas where the shortage of midwives was felt most keenly.

Professor Ross Gibson (31 March 2005)
Design, Architecture and Building
Inner-West Weekly
The Powerhouse Museum has just launched VectorLab a new facility that helps budding designers, photographers, musicians, video and film makers explore and expand their creative minds through various digital media. UTS Professor of New Media and Digital Culture Ross Gibson launched the new studio. "The future success of Australian society is reliant on the growth of creative industries that are important for wealth and job creation," said Professor Gibson.

Professor Andrew Jakubowicz (31 March 2005)
Humanities and Social Sciences
Channel 7
Feature on Australian racism. Professor Andrew Jakubowicz a sociologist from UTS defines racism. He says "racism has a cultural aspect, but Australian racism depends on where a person stands in the pecking order."