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Finding friends in a new land

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/641-finding-friends-in-a-new-land

11 Jun 2018: Story by Susan Oong. Banner image by Richard Jupe. Kicking a soccer ball around helped forge the friendship between Hazara asylum seeker Haji Alizada and University of Tasmania social housing researcher Julia Verdouw. Now 23, Alizada is an entrepreneur
The algorithm that's saving lives

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/563-the-algorithm-thats-saving-lives

20 Mar 2018: University of Tasmania-led research which developed breakthrough technology designed to reduce infant mortality has been licensed by a UK-based company. A commercial licence for the technology – a closed-loop control algorithm which optimises
Breath of life for respiratory research

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/806-breath-of-life-for-respiratory-research

19 Dec 2018: Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome claim more than 3000 Australian lives each year and have mortality rates of approximately 30 per cent. Help is potentially at hand through mechanical ventilation, but the barrier to this
School project gets an 'A'

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10 Aug 2018: The new learning asset in the centre of Hobart is defying all attempts to be defined, categorised, or bound by its geography. "The A-Lab is a tangible expression of the Making of the Future Partnership Agreement and is a rich resource to be utilised
Building a link between obesity and infertility

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/804-building-a-link-between-obesity-and-infertility

18 Dec 2018: Ye He was working at a medical clinic in China when she realised a lot of women struggling to conceive a child were obese. It was an observation that led Ye to devote her postgraduate research to establishing a link between obesity and fertility. Ye
Legal eagle flies Strait

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/704-legal-eagle-flies-strait

10 Aug 2018: Borders were no barrier to Professor Tim McCormack becoming one of the world’s foremost experts in international humanitarian law. But after decades spent working interstate and internationally, the University of Tasmania alumnus and its new Dean
Why you should race into Engineering at the University of Tasmania

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/687-why-you-should-race-into-engineering-at-the-university-of-tasmania

26 Jul 2018: Why just read textbooks about engineering when you can actually build a race car at Uni? And then drive it? Formula SAE is the world’s biggest engineering annual design competition and it’s embedded into our Engineering curriculum. Our
Rooms with a view – and a story to tell

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/707-rooms-with-a-view-and-a-story-to-tell

10 Aug 2018: Tasmanian School of Business and Economics’ PhD student Monika Belhaj will lead an intensive study into the unique offerings of MACq 01 Hotel on Hobart’s waterfront. Her research will explore the links between marketing and visitor experience,
Diet and depression link is not all in the mind

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/530-diet-and-depression-link-is-not-all-in-the-mind

15 Feb 2018: New evidence of a biological link between diet and depression has come from the first study to analyse associations between diet, body mass index, inflammatory markers and mental health in adolescents. The association between overweight/obesity and
Helping premature babies breathe

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/794-helping-premature-babies-breathe

19 Nov 2018: Hundreds of hospitals around the world are using a gentle intervention developed at the University of Tasmania to save the lives of premature babies by helping them breathe. The treatment, known as ‘minimally-invasive surfactant therapy (MIST)’,