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Coming home to Country

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13 Dec 2023: I am honoured and profoundly privileged to have been appointed the University of Tasmania’s new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). I was born in Devonport on the North-West Coast of Lutruwita/Tasmania. My mother is Palawa and my father comes from a
3D printing business brings new opportunities to the North West Coast

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24 Jul 2023: When Dian Ferrington set out to start her 3D printing and design business with her fiancÃ, she wanted to create a place that championed safety, inclusivity, and sustainability. TONDII, a design and fabrication business located in Wynyard, is the
Rankings show Tasmania can lead the world in sustainability

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1 Jun 2023: Times Higher Education has announced that the University of Tasmania is ranked 5th in the world for its performance against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The University is ranked 1st in the world – for the second year
Tasmania’s first Professor of English celebrated

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20 Jan 2023: He was Tasmania’s first Professor of English, but William Henry Williams was also the only lecturer in the subject for the first three decades of the University’s life. Williams was one of just three academics hired as the entire teaching staff
Research leads to cosplay world championships

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13 Jul 2023: Turning research into action is taking lecturer Emerald L King all the way to the Olympics of cosplay. Humanities academic Emerald and partner Amy King recently won selection to represent Australia at the 2024 World Cosplay Summit Championship in
Café strengthens community and campus connection

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13 Jul 2023: Inside the city-side entrance of the Cradle Coast campus Field Building is a community space that’s been coming alive with the sounds and smells of a vibrant operation. Unity CafÃ has opened on the ground floor serving students, staff and
Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions among the oldest recorded…

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14 Aug 2023: New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science indicates Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) stories recall geological and astronomical events that occurred 12,000 years ago, placing them among the oldest recorded oral traditions in the
Antarctic researcher wins prestigious Fellowship to study in the US

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10 Feb 2023: A University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) graduate has won a prestigious Quad Fellowship to investigate the historic impacts of climate change on glacial melting in Antarctica. Mika Bighin has arrived in the United
Local contractor appointed for Makers transformation

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9 Jun 2023: An exciting future is coming to Burnie’s iconic Makers’ Workshop thanks to a new chapter being progressed by the University of Tasmania and its partners. Work has begun on a $4 million+ internal refurbishment with local firm Fairbrother leading
Sustainable Living courses that can help you make your own home and…

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5 Jul 2023: Saving the planet starts in your own backyard and the University of Tasmania’s Sustainable Living courses can equip you with everything you need to know to put your green thumb to work. The Undergraduate Certificate can be completed in as little as
University studies supporting community care careers

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7 Jun 2023: As workforce demands in community care and social assistance grow around Australia, University of Tasmania graduates are emerging as the industry’s future leaders. At Tasmanian not-for-profit Youth Family and Community Connections (YFCC), seven
Jess is building sustainability principles into her career, and it…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/jess-is-building-sustainability-principles-into-her-career-and-it-all-started-with-gardening

5 Jul 2023: Jess Nesbit’s interest in sustainability started with studying a free unit on gardening at the University of Tasmania and evolved into a career in environmental science. Having earned her Diploma of Sustainable Living, she is now using her
Mother and daughter embark on nursing journey together

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15 Feb 2023: Traci and Ashlyn Strochnetter are already familiar faces on the Cradle Coast campus. In 2022 Traci received a Diploma of University Studies (Nursing Foundation Studies) and Ashlyn a Diploma of University Studies (Health). They are both excited about
University Alumni Award winners' far-reaching impacts

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10 Nov 2023: Congratulations to the three University of Tasmania Alumni Award winners for 2023, who have been recognised for their globally significant work in antimicrobial resistance and sepsis, sea ice and climate change, and nursing. They are Professor Tim
On screen, on air and on stage, Emily lives to perform

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14 Dec 2023: From working as a weather presenter on a Tasmanian news bulletin, to her current career as a breakfast radio personality on the Gold Coast, Emily Jade O’Keefe has always followed her dream. “I am living the exact life I wanted! Not everyone can
Living more sustainably is everyone’s responsibility and we can…

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5 Jul 2023: The University of Tasmania is the world’s number one university for taking action on climate change for two years running, and we’ve made it our mission to share our passion for sustainability with as many people as we can. That’s why we offer
Stand clear for the methane busters

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8 May 2023: Methane is estimated to contribute about 14. 5 per cent of anthropogenic, or human-generated, greenhouse gas emissions. And one of its main sources happens to be one of our key industries: livestock. It’s a problem for the atmosphere and,
New age of Antarctic exploration

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8 May 2023: People often look at me oddly when I mention that my research focuses on Antarctica. It’s not what they expect from a humanities academic. That’s understandable. Antarctica is the only continent where humans have never lived permanently. But the
Discover the Cradle Coast campus

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13 Feb 2023: The Cradle Coast campus is located at West Park, 4 – 8 Bass Highway, Burnie. Known as the Field Building, it supports students who are undertaking study on campus, at a University of Tasmania site elsewhere, or by distance. Where do I park and
Accountancy and the path to net zero

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8 May 2023: Accountancy has a reputation as a backroom – perhaps even a boring – profession. But that’s all changing. Accountants are leading and guiding organisations dealing with the climate crisis, helping to create a better future for us and coming
Partnering for sustainability

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8 May 2023: The University wants to ensure that its considerable sustainability expertise and capabilities contribute to shaping practices and policy across Tasmania and beyond. Reflecting this goal, the Tasmanian Policy Exchange (TPE) was established in 2020
Charlotte investigates the emotional impact of climate change

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20 Jun 2023: There is a jarring kind of tonal whiplash that an entire generation of students are experiencing every day, as a result of the climate crisis. University of Tasmania PhD candidate Charlotte Jones still remembers the shock, the anxiety, and the
Spotlight on Kim Beasy, Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy

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26 Jun 2023: Dr Kim Beasy specialises in education for sustainability. Kim’s teaching and research engage diverse communities in the social, environmental, economic and cultural dimensions of sustainability. She seeks to inform and show how transitions toward
North-West local takes the reins as new Cradle Coast Pro…

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19 Jun 2023: From an early age, Associate Professor Sonya Stanford knew she wanted to attend university to forge a positive future for herself and others. Born in Devonport, she’s a proud North-West local who has experienced the barriers and challenges of
‘I tend to be very gentle’: how teachers are navigating climate…

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31 Aug 2023: Climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling. The main international test of 15-year-olds’ progress (which Australia participates in) has just announced the next round of testing will include environmental
The full bottle on climate change

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8 May 2023: Tasmania enjoys a growing reputation as a producer of stellar sparkling wine, a worthy rival to the famed Champagne region of France. But research by Dr Tom Remenyi, one of the University’s climate research fellow in Geography and Spatial Sciences,
Professor Craig Johnson

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10 Feb 2023: BSc Hons 1980University of Tasmania ecologist and alumnus Professor Craig Johnson has spent his career underwater. He has dived under the ice with the navy in Canada, studied the rich kelp forests off South Africa, and researched the crown-of-thorns
Scientists, teachers, warriors

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8 May 2023: Over the course of a long and dynamic academic career, now in its sixth decade, geographer and conservation ecologist Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick has focused increasingly on changes to the natural world from human – usually economic –
Writing from the edge of catastrophe: two new books clarify what’s at …

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20 Jan 2023: The Australian Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 were unspeakably grim. Twenty-four million hectares were burnt, 33 people died, and over a billion animals perished. In Fire: A Message from the Edge of Climate Catastrophe, Margi Prideaux tells us that
Polar research prevents us getting caught out in the cold

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8 May 2023: In early 2020 the World Meteorological Organization warned that the volume of ice shed annually from Antarctica had increased at least sixfold since 1979. The 14-million-square-kilometre continent that locks up 90 per cent of the world’s fresh