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Visual artists invited to apply for McAuley Fellowship

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/visual-artists-invited-to-apply-for-mcauley-fellowship

28 Mar 2024: Applications are open for the $10,000 James McAuley Creative Fellowship offered by the University of Tasmania. The 2024 fellowship will support an established Australian visual artist to work with students and the Tasmanian community. The recipient
It's OK to be bored: engaging children with art through Limitless …

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19 Feb 2024: A gallery guide and program designed with kids, for kids, launched recently at the Devonport Regional Gallery through the Peter Underwood Centre's Limitless Learning project. Dubbed It’s ok @ DRG, the guide is now available to all families visiting
No nerves for Cosgrove High student thanks to Children's…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/No-nerves-for-Cosgrove-High-student-thanks-to-Childrens-University

9 Jan 2024: In a recent interview with Lucy Breaden on ABC Radio Hobart, Year 7 student Aiden provided firsthand insights into the transformative role of the Peter Underwood Centre’s Children's University Tasmania program in navigating the shift from primary
A friend to all bids farewell

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/a-friend-to-all-bids-farewell

29 Jun 2021: After serving and supporting the University of Tasmania for 63 years, our longest-serving employee and cherished philanthropist, Rhonda Ewart is celebrating her retirement. During Rhonda’s career, which began in 1958, she has made outstanding
Banjo has a certain ring

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29 Jun 2021: A reclusive Tasmanian devil who roams the foothills of Mount Wellington now has a name. Meet Banjo, pictured here with University of Tasmania disease ecologist, Dr Rodrigo Hamede. Banjo is one of 172 devils captured and released by our team of
45,000 hours of extra-curricular learning and counting

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15 Jan 2024: Children’s University Tasmania has had its biggest year yet. Last November 742 young people graduated across nine ceremonies in Hobart, Launceston, Burnie and Devonport. Over 1,300 active Children’s University Tasmania members at 52 schools
Shine with the brilliance of the Southern Lights - student support…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/shine-with-the-brilliance-of-the-southern-lights-student-support-appeal-launched

28 Jun 2021: The University has launched the 2021 Southern Lights Scholarship Appeal to help assist our students, like new undergraduate Declan Porter. Declan was a kid who always loved English and was well-versed in Shakespeare even while in primary
Co-designing with kids

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5 Mar 2024: In community centres, galleries and museums in the North and North-West of Tasmania, the Limitless Learning program brings together staff from participating institutions and young people from local schools to jointly construct activities for future
Michelle Craske Prize

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19 May 2021: Professor Michelle Craske knows what it feels like to have someone believe in you. In 1978, Professor Craske was in the thick of her psychology studies at the University of Tasmania when she received a prize in recognition of her exceptional hard
Secret lives of devils revealed

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/secret-lives-of-devils-revealed

6 Apr 2020: New insight into the behaviour of Tasmanian devils in the wild has been gained using lightweight collars fitted with video cameras to track their movements. The recently published study, carried out by University of Tasmania’s School of Natural
A little gift given often, goes a long way

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/a-little-gift-given-often,-goes-a-long-way

19 Oct 2020: Robyn Nandan knows all too well the extraordinary impact a tertiary education can have. Not just on an individual, but also on a family, and the generations that follow. It all began with a farm boy, who as given an opportunity early in life so that
Researchers keen on quinoa's salty secret

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/446-researchers-keen-on-quinoas-salty-secret

30 Oct 2017: A new study into the breeding of salt-tolerant crops has made an important finding, which could prove instrumental in long-term efforts to address global food security. The research, published in the journal Cell Research, found that quinoa, which
Annual Appeal Scholarship helping students shine bright

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/annual-appeal-scholarship-helping-students-shine-bright

6 Oct 2020: The University of Tasmania’s Scholarship program provides students with significant financial and academic support and, wherever possible, creates an opportunity for someone to attend University who might otherwise not be able. Tyeisha Hinds was
The first Jill and Ian Wilson Scholarship student begins

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/the-first-jill-and-ian-wilson-scholarship-student-begins

15 Feb 2024: Moving from North-West Tasmania to Hobart to study, Findlay was doing three jobs to pay for rent, bills and general living expenses, impacting on her ability to study and on her wellbeing. “I remember being in arrears with rent which was so
Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian Devil Research Grants awarded

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/dr-eric-guiler-tasmanian-devil-research-grants-awarded

15 Jul 2021: The fight to secure the future for the iconic Tasmanian devil has received a timely boost, with leading scientists being awarded more than $300,000 in research grants. These funds have been made possible due to generous donors to the Save the
Scholarship enables alumnus to learn cutting-edge heart procedure

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/scholarship-enables-alumnus-to-learn-a-cutting-edge-heart-procedure

15 Oct 2020: Heart disease is the leading single cause of death in Tasmania, fuelled by high rates of smoking, diabetes, obesity and sedentary behaviour. It’s a big challenge to overcome, with the need for improved prevention, education and treatment, but one
Jewel in our creative crown

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29 Jun 2021: “We are seeing this reflected in our courses, for instance in music and video collaborations between the Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Media and the interdisciplinary Creative Curriculum student cohorts. “In terms of industry engagement, we are
Tax Clinic thriving online in tough times

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1061-tax-clinic-thriving-online-in-tough-times

2 Nov 2020: The University of Tasmania’s community Tax Clinic continues to thrive during 2020, making the move online to provide low-income earners with high-quality tax advice and help during the COVID-19 disruption. Commencing in March 2019 in Hobart and
Lollies for cows: Plantain in the pasture

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/365-lollies-for-cows-plantain-in-the-pasture

31 Jul 2017: New research at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) is looking at how the inclusion of plantain in traditional ryegrass pastures can boost production and profitability for Tasmanian dairy farmers. TIA Dairy Research Fellow Pieter Raedts and
Multi-generational giving kickstarts cutting-edge study

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/multi-generational-giving-kickstarts-cutting-edge-study

19 Oct 2020: Pioneering research into two of the world’s greatest health threats has been bolstered by a generous donation from a family intent on changing the world for the better. Scientists from the University of Tasmania’s Wicking Dementia Research Centre
Good enough to bottle: supporting the growth of Tassie wine

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/788-good-enough-to-bottle-supporting-the-growth-of-tassie-wine

19 Oct 2018: University of Tasmania researchers are helping farmers across Australia: understanding the differences in Pinots; finding bioactive compounds in cherries; and bringing genomics to tree breeding for forestry. As any connoisseur will testify, good wine
Two bequests further cancer research

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/two-bequests-will-fast-track-medical-research

13 Jan 2021: New technology crucial to supporting vital research into cancers has been secured by the University of Tasmania, thanks to the generosity of two bequests by Tasmanian women. The Cytek Aurora flow cytometer allows Tasmanian scientists to more than
Paying it forward

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/paying-it-forward

29 Jun 2021: A cheer erupted in the classroom as the principal made an announcement over the intercom: their tiny school in the middle of Tasmania had won a national science competition, beating 35 entries from high schools around Australia. For the first time,
Celebrating a life on the land

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/celebrating-a-life-on-the-land

29 Jun 2021: In the 1930s, there were no school buses in the rural Tasmanian township of Cressy. And so, at the tender age of nine, David McEwan left home to study. The third-generation farmer recalls his time in Launceston at boarding school as challenging, both
A climate for change

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29 Jun 2021: “Take all the chances you can, go further, learn more, change lives. ”These are the words that University of Tasmania postgraduate student and alumna Charlotte Jones carries with her as she embarks on an exciting new chapter as a Westpac
Celebrating the old and new of Hytten Hall

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/celebrating-the-old-and-new-of-hytten-hall

15 Mar 2024: Hytten Hall college was formally re-established at Melville Street in central Hobart at a ceremony on 8 March, with college alumni and new residents meeting to share stories and make connections. The original Hytten Hall was a University college
Scholarship supports a career in caring

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/cecilia-archer-graduates-with-scholarship

17 Dec 2020: It was an epiphany in her late 20s that drove Cecilia Archer to give up her day job in real estate and enrol at the University of Tasmania. “I want to work in an industry where I am putting people,not money,at thecentreof everything I do,” she
University puts child safety courses on everyone's radar

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/university-puts-child-safety-courses-on-everyones-radar

18 Jul 2023: We all have a role in creating safer communities for children and young people, writes Dr Becky Shelley and Dr Mike GuerzoniIt has been made clear to us in recent years that child sexual abuse and its prevention is the uncomfortable conversation we
After a lifetime of caring an enduring legacy

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/after-a-lifetime-of-caring-an-enduring-legacy

15 Oct 2020: For many years Pauline Barnett longed to return home to the place she grew up and so dearly missed, Tasmania. Yet life had other plans. Pauline, known to most as Betty, first laid eyes on the island as a child, when her parents moved from Perth to
Heads above water

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29 Jun 2021: In an incredible show of support from donors, staff and alumni, more than $200,000 was raised to assist University of Tasmania students suffering hardship caused by COVID-19. This followed Vice-Chancellor Professor Rufus Black and the University’s
Silent sentinels of climate change

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/silent-sentinels-of-climate-change

29 Jun 2021: For hundreds of years, stands of white gums in north-east Tasmania have been left to grow. Their distinctive pale trunks now tower above the landscape, seemingly invincible. Locals call them the ‘white knights’, but lately the eucalypts look
Scholarship springboards student to success

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15 Oct 2020: Lewis Nicholls was always surrounded by the power of the elements. He grew up breathing air that’s considered the cleanest in the world. Nearby the winds are so fierce they whip up some of the world’s biggest swells and make 80 metre wind turbines
Scholarship offers life changing education for Kurdish refugee

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/mountains-of-hope

15 Oct 2020: After years of living in limbo, a young man forced to flee his homeland was given the chance to transform his life. When Mostafa Faraji looks up at kunanyi, the ancient mountain dominating Hobart, it reminds him of home. The geological mass provides a
A generous gift leads to a perfect score

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/gerald-loughran-and-kelcie-miller

15 Oct 2020: Gerald Loughran's two children were born with the caring gene: Alison is a neonatologist, a doctor that cares for newborn babies, and David is a carer. But their desire to help others extends beyond the bedside, back to where so many of life’s
Island of hope to the world

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/island-of-hope

29 Jun 2021: Tasmania is a small island that thinks big. This is no more evident than in its world-leading approach to tackling dementia, one of the main causes of death and disability in Australia. An ambitious, world-first project aims use the population of
The secret sex life of plants

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/260-the-secret-sex-life-of-plants

10 Apr 2017: Sexual reproduction in animals and plants share common elements, but little was known about how the sex of plants is determined until University of Tasmania researchers discovered a gene responsible. Dr Scott McAdam, Associate Professor Timothy
Capturing the stories of those caring for loved ones with dementia

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/capturing-the-stories-of-those-caring-for-loved-ones-with-dementia

15 Dec 2021: Our annual fundraising appeal for the Wicking Dementia Centre has launched, focussing on a personal story that highlights the need for more support for those living with dementia and their caregivers. Rowena Howard cares for her father, Roger, who
Trust helps secure future of Tasmanian environment

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/trust-helps-secure-future-of-tasmanian-environment

24 May 2024: John Roberts was a man who practiced what he preached. A life on the land as an orchardist then a sheep grazier instilled in him the importance of looking after the environment. He saw the need to prevent soil degradation, protect waterways, plant
A slice of university life

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/a-slice-of-university-life

29 Jun 2021: Whether it’s raising livestock, or trading on the stock market, rural students striving for a career in agriculture and business are being given the chance to study at the University of Tasmania, thanks to Domino’s registered charity, Give for
Telescopic visionary

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24 May 2024: Family camping trips in the wilds of British Columbia were a formative time for entrepreneur and keen astronomer Caisey Harlingten. Lying on his back and gazing up at the night sky, he became captivated by space. “Looking up at the deep, dark,
Endemic animals being brought back from the brink by philanthropy

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/endemic-animals-being-brought-back-from-the-brink-by-philanthropy

19 Oct 2020: The need to protect Australia's iconic species has never been as great. It’s estimated the recent bushfires killed more than a billion animals. Those that survived the devastation lost large swathes of their habitat and face food and water
Maths saviour honoured

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/maths-saviour-honoured

2 Jul 2021: Physics and mathematics stalwart Professor Larry Forbes’s immense contribution to the University of Tasmania will endure, thanks to the establishment of a new scholarship in his name. It was a fitting way to mark the retirement of this highly
Tasmanian devils may survive their own pandemic

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/tasmanian-devils-may-survive-their-own-pandemic

11 Dec 2020: Researchers have found strong evidence that a transmissible cancer that has decimated Tasmanian devil populations is not likely to lead to their demise. The study, published in the journal Science, indicated that the devils’ pandemic is shifting
Darwin and the devil’s plight: is natural selection finding a way to…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/darwin-and-the-devils-plight-is-natural-selection-finding-a-way-to-combat-cancer

30 Sep 2020: Research into the deadly cancer affecting Tasmanian devils has found the marsupials are mounting their natural defence against the disease. An international team from Australia, the US, United Kingdom and France has analysed the natural adaptations
University Foundation Committee

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/university-foundation-committee

24 May 2024: The University Foundation Committee (UFC) is a committee of the Council of the University of Tasmania. It was established to ensure that the University’s philanthropic practices and policies are consistent with its mission and goals and that
The Underwood Centre's first PhD graduate highlights the benefits …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/The-Underwood-Centres-first-PhD-graduate

27 Mar 2024: In a milestone moment for the Peter Underwood Centre at the University of Tasmania, Debra Urquhart became the first PhD graduate supervised through the Centre on 20 March 2024. The ceremony marked the culmination of years of dedicated research about
University of Tasmania sailors compete in world championships

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/university-of-tasmania-sailors-compete-in-world-championships

13 Jun 2024: Congratulations to the Australian sailing team who competed in the World University Championships in Italy from 6–10 June. The five athletes in the national team were all from the University of Tasmania. After coming 3rd on Day 1, and dealing
Business focus thrives on the North-West

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/business-focus-thrives-on-the-north-west

24 May 2024: For Vincent McDonagh, receiving the 2023 Business Northwest Bursary has not only eased financial pressures, it has provided valuable connections with the business community. “I went to the Business Northwest meeting and spoke, and ever since then
100% of young people surveyed believe that every secondary school…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/100-of-young-people-surveyed-believe-that-every-secondary-school-should-have-a-uni-hub

24 Jan 2024: Since 2017, we have worked in partnership with the State Government to deliver and grow our School-Higher Education Learning Hubs (Uni Hubs) at Claremont College and Newstead College. In 2023, Uni Hubs were also embedded at Don College, Hellyer
Literacy roundtables encourage Tasmanian solutions

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/literacy-roundtables-encourage-tasmanian-solutions

24 May 2024: A report by the Australian Education Union estimates 50 per cent of Tasmania’s population has inadequate reading skills for their daily life. Seeing the need for solutions, a two-day symposium – the Cuthill Family Foundation Early Years Literacy