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UTS and Beautiful Minds:
I believe the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award in the world - the Olympic medal for intellectual fields of human endeavour.
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Pushing the boundaries of Australian literature:
What began as a conversation between Senior Lecturer in Writing Dr Catherine Cole, and ABC Radio National Producer Dr Lyn Gallacher, about the need to push the boundaries of Australian literature has become a two-year funded project to do just that.
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Cane toads with personality:
Dr Peter Biro, who has researched the evolution and behaviour of fish, has turned his gaze to Cane Toads.
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Gender equality slides:
Gender equity and participation are vital elements of a socially sustainable society – one that is just, equitable, inclusive and democratic and that provides a decent quality of life for current and future generations.
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True migrants: Tasmanian silvereyes
A new study shows that Australian migratory birds may have more in common with their European counterparts than previously thought.
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What you do and don’t want
We’ve all met wannabe authors, convinced they have a bestseller inside them.
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Where fashion and architecture collide: Shinmi Park
Fashion and architecture have always shared a reciprocal relationship based on common visual and intellectual principles.
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The brain drain:
We asked students and staff if they thought they needed to work overseas to make it in their profession.
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Comic cuts: the UTS cartoons
Dr Michael Hill, who is director of the UTS Master of Animation program, will have an exhibition of the series of cartoons he did for the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and two later series, which featured in the University’s U: magazine.
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Fewer complications for relaxed patients:
The relationship between anxiety and life-threatening complications in patients who have heart attacks will be the focus of a study led by Professor Sharon McKinley of the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health.
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Oztalk
A database of over one million words of contemporary spoken English is being developed by Professor Diana Slade, Dr Christopher Nesbitt of the Faculty of Education and Professor Christian Matthiessen at Macquarie University.
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Materials conservation explained
Curators who work in heritage materials conservation, and are not from a scientific background, now have a single point of reference thanks to a new book by Dr Barbara Stuart from the Faculty of Science.
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1967 looking back:
Sunday 27 May 2007 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the referendum commonly celebrated as a national pledge to addressing indigenous disadvantage.
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Building networks:
If you ask UTS Master of Business Administration student, Allen Lui what he did in the nineties, he’ll tell you, “I built the internet in Australia.
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A healthy love for the law:
Law and medicine run in Iris Thompson’s family so it didn’t surprise them that she opted to study for a degree in law and another in medical science.
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Telling interactive tales:
Self-confessed technology geek and graduate of the UTS B Communication (Media Arts and Production), Carla Drago, decided to enrol in a Masters in Interactive Multimedia, after spending a lot of time on the web and seeing how infl uential it was becoming.
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U: read it
So Many SelvesBy: Gabrielle Cary Publisher: Allen & Unwin “The act of writing is… the ritual of confession reconfigured for a secular society.
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U: read it
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Edited by: Suzanne Benn and Dexter Dunphy Publisher: Routledge Sustainability, climate change, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance are on all lips at the moment.
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U: read it:
A Curious Intimacy By: Jessica White Publisher: Penguin Australia What can a contemporary writer tell us about the late nineteenth century that writers of the time didn’t, or couldn’t' A Curious Intimacy is touted as “a sensuous story of forbidden love and longing.
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Getting the basics right
A report written by Institute for Sustainable Futures researchers on the role of domestic water and sanitation in reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development in our region: Getting the Basics Right, Water and Sanitation in South East Asia and the Pacific has recently been released.
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U: said it
“It would be nice to think that our graduates can be responsible designers and help change our society's terrible throw away habits.
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Welcome to new staff:

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Endeavour
In March this year Katrina Schlunke and Stephen Muecke sailed on the replica HMB Endeavour for a week from Hobart to Devonport.
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