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Are you planning on "getting healthy" this year?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/231-are-you-planning-on-getting-healthy-this-year

2 Feb 2017: The University of Tasmania is looking for volunteers for a new study into what helps people change their diet successfully. At a time when many are trying to shed Christmas kilos and honour New Year’s healthy eating resolutions, the study looks
This PhD student is making concerts sound better

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/316-this-phd-student-is-making-concerts-sound-better

16 Jun 2017: How do you know if a concert venue is going to make an evening of music amazing or just OK? You ask an engineer. Specifically, an acoustician, like University of Tasmania Engineering PhD student Lily Panton. Lily studies the acoustics of concert
Some workers ‘cyberloaf’ if they think they can get away with it

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/374-some-workers-cyberloaf-if-they-think-they-can-get-away-with-it

17 Aug 2017: Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: if you break up your work day with online activities that aren’t work-related, you may be guilty of “cyberloafing”. Cyberloafing –
Survivability: Designing safer ships

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/274-survivability-designing-safer-ships

11 May 2017: For Martin Friebe, opening a door that he designed was a hugely exciting experience - because it was no ordinary door. “My first task ever as a naval architect was designing a machinery room door of the 214 class submarine, which was composed of
Delving into the "black books" of convict knowledge

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/325-delving-into-the-black-books-of-convict-knowledge

20 Jun 2017: In 1803, the first of almost 73,000 convicts landed on what was then called Van Diemen’s Land. Over the course of the next 50 years convict clerks kept meticulous records of each new arrival in leather-bound volumes. Pouring over the voluminous
The frozen continent and its connection to us

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/341-the-frozen-continent-and-its-connection-to-us

4 Jul 2017: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researchers have joined the City of Hobart for the official launch of a new research project that aims to enhance Hobart’s role as an Antarctic gateway. The Antarctic Cities project is studying the
What we can learn from book clubs

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/420-what-we-can-learn-from-book-clubs

3 Oct 2017: Children’s book clubs have been in the news lately. In July, ABC Online featured a number of Year 6 students who had formed their own clubs. The kids love their reading groups and the story describes how the groups form the basis of lasting
University of Tasmania historian shortlisted for Ernest Scott Prize

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/249-university-of-tasmania-historian-shortlisted-for-ernest-scott-prize

26 Mar 2017: A book by University of Tasmania History and Classics Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow Penny Edmonds has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. The $13,000 prize is awarded to work based upon original research, which
Choose your own adventure

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/239-choose-your-own-adventure

14 Feb 2017: PhD student Lily is an acoustician. But what is that exactly? She studies the acoustics of concert halls, and she has done it in virtually all of the major concert halls in Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, Perth Concert Hall, Hamer Hall,
Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/413-convict-children-taken-to-australia-grew-up-taller-than-their-uk-peers

17 Sep 2017: Male Tasmanian-born prisoners, arrested in the second half of the nineteenth century, were over four centimetres taller, on average, than transported convicts. And they were nearly two centimetres taller than free migrants who were born in Britain
For some kids, texting ability brings worries into socialising

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/351-for-some-kids-texting-ability-brings-worries-into-socialising

13 Jul 2017: Texting could be creating a literacy issue for children, but it is not the problem most people would expect. In a presentation to Education Transforms 2017 in Hobart, written language expert Dr Nenagh Kemp said her research with colleagues in the UK
Don’t worry about the huge Antarctic iceberg...

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/344-dont-worry-about-the-huge-antarctic-iceberg

7 Jul 2017: Icebergs breaking off Antarctica, even massive ones, do not typically concern glaciologists. But the impending birth of a new massive iceberg could be more than business as usual for the frozen continent. The Larsen C ice shelf, the fourth-largest
A home for everyone?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/408-a-home-for-everyone

12 Sep 2017: While Australia has an egalitarian mythology, where everyone has a chance, the roots of problems with access to housing lie in our history. The first land grants were given to former convicts as a way to control an unfenced prison colony. As free
Deadly disease can ‘hide’ from a Tasmanian devil’s immune system

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/223-deadly-disease-can-hide-from-a-tasmanian-devils-immune-system

4 Jan 2017: The Tasmanian devil facial tumour (DFT) cells may use a molecular deception – common in human cancers – that could allow the deadly disease to avoid the animal’s immune system, according to our new research published this month. Recently it
Who goes to MONA? Peering behind the ‘flannelette curtain’

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/270-who-goes-to-mona-peering-behind-the-flannelette-curtain

8 May 2017: “I’ve never been with so many bogans in my life. Aren’t they fantastic!” cried an enraptured guest at the 2011 opening of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art. The general opening party debauchery (despite rumours of an impending orgy)
#LstTxt&Tstmnt

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/431-lsttxttstmnt

13 Oct 2017: The unsent text message read:“Dave Nic you and Jack keep all that I have house and superannuation, put my ashes in the back garden with Trish Julie will take her stuff only she’s ok gone back to her ex AGAIN I’m beaten. A bit of cash behind TV
In the future, boats might fly

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/233-in-the-future-boats-might-fly

6 Feb 2017: Sam Smith dreams of one day creating a boat capable of flying above the water. Impossible? Not with hydrofoil innovation research. Sam is studying his PhD at the ARC Research Training Centrefor Naval Design and Manufacturing at the Australian
Melting ice and satellites: how to measure the Earth’s ‘wiggle'

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/293-melting-ice-and-satellites-how-to-measure-the-earths-wiggle

30 May 2017: "In a driverless future, it will be vital that our cars know exactly where they are on the road, down to the millimetre. We’ve found that our current methods of measuring location may not be up to scratch. Changes on Earth’s surface, including
How to cope with the stress of working alone

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/230-how-to-cope-with-the-stress-of-working-alone

1 Feb 2017: The nature of work in the gig economy - where workers have to support themselves and take on the risk associated with the job - undermines some of our fundamental human needs and can create a significant amount of mental stress. People often define
Cows in Antarctica?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/373-cows-in-antarctica

16 Aug 2017: Elizabeth Leane, Associate Professor of English and ARC Future Fellow, and Hanne E. F. Nielsen, PhD Candidate in Antarctic Representations, investigate the unusual history of cows in Antarctica for The Conversation. Domestic animals are rarely