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  2. Thumbnail for Visual artists invited to apply for McAuley Fellowship

    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
  3. Thumbnail for It's OK to be bored: engaging children with art through Limitless Learning

    It's OK to be bored: engaging children with art through Limitless …

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/Its-ok-to-be-bored
    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
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    From Tasmania’s West Coast to Federal Court Judge

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/from-tasmanias-west-coast-to-federal-court-judge
    22 May 2024: The Hon. Justice Penelope Neskovcin (BEc-LLB Hons 1992) was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia on 8 February 2024. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Tasmania in 1993. Prior to her
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    Spotlight on Dr Tamara Wood, Senior Lecturer in Law

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/spotlight-on-dr-tamara-wood,-senior-lecturer-in-law
    23 Feb 2024: What inspires you about teaching and interacting with students in Law?Law students are society’s future change makers. Many of our students come into their Law degree with a vision for a better world and, all going well, they leave it with a set
  6. Thumbnail for No nerves for Cosgrove High student thanks to Children's University

    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
  7. Thumbnail for From teacher to Law graduate and University Medallist

    From teacher to Law graduate and University Medallist

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/from-teacher-to-law-graduate-and-university-medallist
    29 Feb 2024: Penny Stevenson found satisfaction in a teaching career for more than two decades, but still there was an itch to scratch. She’d wondered sometimes about other paths and, when the opportunity arose to study Introduction to Law as a one-off unit,
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    45,000 hours of extra-curricular learning and counting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/45,000-hours-of-extra-curricular-learning-and-counting
    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
  9. Thumbnail for Law students’ national president focusing on regions

    Law students’ national president focusing on regions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/law-students-national-president-focusing-on-regions
    22 May 2024: Lucy Milne (BSc-LLB 2023) has taken the reins of the Australian Law Students’ Association as its national president. With the ALSA Annual Conference heading to Hobart in July, we asked Lucy what motivated her to study Law and what she’s focusing
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    Co-designing with kids

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/co-designing-with-kids
    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
  11. Thumbnail for Award-winning alumna puts art at centre of education

    Award-winning alumna puts art at centre of education

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/award-winning-alumna-puts-art-at-centre-of-education
    24 Apr 2024: Katie Wightman is the Principal at Waverley Primary School. In 2022, she was awarded the Together We Inspire Telstra Innovation in Technology Award for her work delivering an online and face-to-face program to improve access, retention, engagement
  12. Thumbnail for Joanne Flinn, BEc, LLB 1990

    Joanne Flinn, BEc, LLB 1990

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/joanne-flinn
    9 Oct 2023: After completing degrees in economics and law, Joanne launched her career consulting for Accenture in Sydney followed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) internationally. Joanne is a published author, speaker and strategist who specialises in integrating
  13. Thumbnail for University puts child safety courses on everyone's radar

    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
  14. Thumbnail for Never give up on finding your dream job

    Never give up on finding your dream job

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1110-never-give-up-on-finding-your-dream-job
    25 Feb 2021: Work Ready ProgramThe Work Ready Program combines your Master of Professional Accounting or Master of Professional Accounting (Specialisation) degree with a guaranteed corporate internship placement, regular mentoring, work experience, networking
  15. Thumbnail for Literacy roundtables encourage Tasmanian solutions

    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
  16. Thumbnail for ‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research reveals what Australian kids want to know about our warming world

    ‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/how-long-before-climate-change-will-destroy-the-earth-research-reveals-what-australian-kids-want-to-know-about-our-warming-world
    21 Mar 2024: Every day, more children discover they are living in a climate crisis. This makes many children feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless, confused and frightened about what the future holds. The climate change burden facing young people is inherently
  17. Thumbnail for What do Wedge-tailed Eagles and Economics have in common?

    What do Wedge-tailed Eagles and Economics have in common?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1059-what-do-wedge-tailed-eagles-and-economics-have-in-common
    29 Sep 2020: Andrea Magnusson is in her fifth and final year of a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts degree. She was first introduced to economics as a subject in high school and has no regrets. I was intrigued, as economics seemed to be an excellent
  18. Thumbnail for Tax Clinic thriving online in tough times

    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
  19. Thumbnail for The Underwood Centre's first PhD graduate highlights the benefits of distance learning

    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
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    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
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    Shortlist announced for one of Australia’s premier history book awards

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/shortlist-announced-for-one-of-australias-premier-history-book-awards
    4 Jun 2024: The selection committee has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History:Robbie Arnott, Limberlost (Text)Set in a vividly captured bygone Tasmania, the third novel by the award-winning author of Flames
  22. Thumbnail for The story of the missing star cluster - and how it was found again

    The story of the missing star cluster - and how it was found again

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/159-the-story-of-the-missing-star-cluster-and-how-it-was-found-again
    16 Sep 2016: In a tiny galaxy, three million light years away, a massive star cluster sat quietly waiting to be discovered - again. Dr Andrew Cole, from the University of Tasmania’s School of Physical Sciences, has rediscovered the star cluster in the Pegasus
  23. Thumbnail for Hive mind at work in new learning destination

    Hive mind at work in new learning destination

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/Hive-mind-at-work-in-Ulverstone
    2 May 2024: Over the past few months, the Underwood Centre's Limitless Learning team has facilitated ten intergenerational workshops with local students and families at Hive Tasmania. This has led to the creation of educational resources by kids, for kids, that
  24. Thumbnail for Revolutionary instrument uses black holes to measure Climate Change

    Revolutionary instrument uses black holes to measure Climate Change

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/160-revolutionary-instrument-uses-black-holes-to-measure-climate-change
    20 Sep 2016: University of Tasmania scientists have successfully completed tests on a revolutionary new instrument that will make it possible to measure the Earth and the effects of climate change with millimetre precision and also map our Galaxy. Measuring
  25. Thumbnail for The art of making a difference

    The art of making a difference

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/the-art-of-making-a-difference
    24 May 2024: Gifting the joy of musicAccessibility to the arts was an important driver for former University of Tasmania Deputy Chancellor, business leader and alumnus Dr Rod Roberts and Mrs Cecile Roberts when they established the Ossa Music Prize. “We want to
  26. Thumbnail for Nurturing home-grown medical research

    Nurturing home-grown medical research

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/nurturing-home-grown-medical-research
    24 May 2024: Sustained support crucial to medical researchAlan Rees watched as his father, the pre-eminent landscape painter the late Lloyd Frederic Rees AC CMG, lost his vision to macular degeneration. Years later the artist’s only son developed a form of the
  27. Thumbnail for Connecting with our neighbours through education

    Connecting with our neighbours through education

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/connecting-with-our-neighbours-through-education
    6 Jun 2023: The University will help build connections between educators in Australia and across South-East Asia when a ground-breaking webinar series continues this month. The Australia-ASEAN Academics Forum was formed in 2021 to improve online education
  28. Thumbnail for Children's University opens a new door to learning

    Children's University opens a new door to learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/childrens-university-opens-a-new-door-of-learning-opportunity-for-wilson-family
    6 Jul 2023: For Michelle Wilson and her daughters Ashlegh and Alyssa, Children's University Tasmania has become an exciting part of daily life. Their involvement in Children's University began four years ago when the program was launched at the student's primary
  29. Thumbnail for Alumni success on the national literary stage

    Alumni success on the national literary stage

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/alumni-success-on-the-national-literary-stage
    18 May 2023: Two University of Tasmania alumni are in the running for Australia’s biggest literary prize. Arts graduates Robbie Arnott and Adam Ouston have made the longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Arnott’s acclaimed Limberlost, which he wrote
  30. Thumbnail for Literacy roundtables to encourage Tasmanian solutions

    Literacy roundtables to encourage Tasmanian solutions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/literacy-roundtables-to-encourage-tasmanian-solutions
    27 Jun 2023: Researchers, policy-makers and community representatives will come together on a mission to improve literacy levels in Tasmania. Early years literacy will be the focus of the two-day Cuthill Family Foundation Literacy Roundtables to take place at
  31. Thumbnail for Pioneering educator receives top award

    Pioneering educator receives top award

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/pioneering-educator-receives-top-award
    24 Oct 2023: Alumna and Associate Professor Clair Andersen has become the first Aboriginal person to receive a prestigious award from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders. Associate Professor Andersen has been awarded the ACEL’s Tasmanian Eminent
  32. Thumbnail for Exhibitions shine spotlight on young artists

    Exhibitions shine spotlight on young artists

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/exhibitions-shine-spotlight-on-young-artists
    28 Sep 2022: For the past year a group of Year 11 and 12 students across the state have immersed themselves in a creative arts program with the University of Tasmania. Now their artistic endeavours will be on display for all to see at one of three Object Design
  33. Thumbnail for Applications open for inaugural McAuley Fellowship

    Applications open for inaugural McAuley Fellowship

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/applications-open-for-inaugural-mcauley-fellowship
    22 Mar 2023: Applications are open for a new $10,000 creative fellowship to be offered by the University of Tasmania. The James McAuley Creative Fellowship will support an established Australian poet to work with students and the Tasmanian community. The recipient
  34. Thumbnail for Hadley’s student art prize announced

    Hadley’s student art prize announced

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/hadleys-student-art-prize-announced
    24 Jul 2023: South Australian student Azi Hudson has been awarded the Hadley’s national art prize for senior secondary students, presented by the University of Tasmania. Azi’s painting Crosswind was selected by a panel of experts at the University and the
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    Statewide book club as University teams up with Tasmania Reads

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/statewide-book-club-as-university-teams-up-with-tasmania-reads
    26 May 2023: Readers from across Tasmania will have the chance to come together for a statewide book club as the University teams up with Tasmania Reads. Book club meetings will take place in-person and online in July to discuss alumnus Robbie Arnott’s novel
  36. Thumbnail for Law Week talks tackle human rights, social change and (de)extinction

    Law Week talks tackle human rights, social change and (de)extinction

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/law-week-talks-tackle-human-rights,-social-change-and-deextinction
    3 May 2023: The University will host talks on some of our most important legal issues, as well as an opening address from Tasmania’s Chief Justice when Law Week kicks off later this month. The Hon Alan Blow AO will officially launch Law Week Tasmania 2023 at
  37. Thumbnail for Renowned Composer encourages students to explore new directions

    Renowned Composer encourages students to explore new directions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/renowned-composer-encourages-students-to-explore-new-directions
    28 Oct 2022: Composer Mary Finsterer’s record of accomplishments in the music world is considerable. She is recognised as one of Australia’s finest composers, having received awards for her music in Europe, Britain, USA and Canada and her repertoire covers
  38. Thumbnail for Poet Caitlin Maling awarded inaugural McAuley Fellowship

    Poet Caitlin Maling awarded inaugural McAuley Fellowship

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/poet-caitlin-maling-awarded-inaugural-mcauley-fellowship
    18 May 2023: Ecological poet Caitlin Maling will tap into some deep Tasmanian roots when she takes up a new $10,000 creative fellowship at the University of Tasmania. The West Australian writer, whose most recent book was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s
  39. Thumbnail for Children have their say in Limitless Learning

    Children have their say in Limitless Learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/children-have-their-say-in-limitless-learning
    20 Jun 2023: The Peter Underwood Centre is providing children and young people with a central role in the creation of learning experiences. Our Limitless Learning team are currently working with Children’s University Tasmania members and the staff and
  40. Thumbnail for Two islands, two orchestras

    Two islands, two orchestras

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/1268-two-islands-two-orchestras
    6 Jun 2022: That is the question at the heart of a special research project under way between the University of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Youth Orchestras and the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. The project is exploring the educational and organisational
  41. Thumbnail for Tuning in to resilience for better music groups

    Tuning in to resilience for better music groups

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/tuning-in-to-resilience-for-better-music-groups
    29 Aug 2022: Understanding how to create a learning environment that intentionally enhances the value members feel, which builds that resilience, has been the focus of University of Tasmania researchers working with Tasmanian Youth Orchestras (TYO), who believe
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    Naarah and the arts

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/naarah-and-the-arts
    13 Dec 2022: When Alumni magazine interviewed Naarah (pronounced: Nay-ar-ah) Barnes (BMus 2019), she was back in Western Australia’s Kimberley, seeing the house she bought on the very same day she was offered a supporting lead role in the Amazon Prime series
  43. Thumbnail for Residency boosts literary success

    Residency boosts literary success

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/residency-boosts-literary-success
    13 Dec 2023: One of the books of the year emerged from the inaugural Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, but author Robbie Arnott gained so much more from the experience. Arnott used the precious time to write his third novel, Limberlost, which this year was
  44. Thumbnail for New co-designed leadership program for Tasmania's nurses and midwives launched

    New co-designed leadership program for Tasmania's nurses and…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/new-co-designed-leadership-program-for-tasmanias-nurses-and-midwives-launched
    24 Aug 2022: The University of Tasmania has collaborated with the Department of Health to launch a new leadership program for nurses and midwives. Recently, 26 nurses and midwives from across Tasmania commenced as the inaugural cohort of participants in a new
  45. Thumbnail for The Outback: taking on one of the world's biggest classrooms

    The Outback: taking on one of the world's biggest classrooms

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/the-outback-taking-on-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-classrooms
    13 Dec 2023: After four years teaching at an Alice Springs primary school, Kylie Jones took a job as a governess on a Northern Territory cattle station and a new life presented itself. In her second year, she took the students in her care to visit another cattle
  46. Thumbnail for Malcolm in the middle of Children's University learning

    Malcolm in the middle of Children's University learning

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/malcolm-in-the-middle-of-the-best-kind-of-learning
    13 Jun 2023: Children's University Tasmania school coordinator Malcolm McArthur is happy to be compliant in a deception of his students. Mr McArthur, Assistant Principal at Fairview Primary School at New Norfolk, views Children's University Tasmania as an
  47. Thumbnail for Children's University art in residence at Government House

    Children's University art in residence at Government House

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/childrens-university-art-in-residence-at-government-house
    11 Aug 2023: The Ballroom at Government House is doubling as an art gallery to display the amazing talent of Children's University Tasmania students. Government House, in collaboration with the Peter Underwood Centre, at the University of Tasmania, launched an
  48. Thumbnail for Food sustainability the focus for AgriCULTURED conversation

    Food sustainability the focus for AgriCULTURED conversation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/food-sustainability-the-focus-for-agricultured-conversation
    1 Aug 2023: Helping communities understand and nurture resilient local food systems will be the focus for Professor Alana Mann at this week’s AgriCULTURED event in the state’s North. The University’s Professor of Media and Communication, who specialises in
  49. Thumbnail for Transforming the River’s Edge at Inveresk

    Transforming the River’s Edge at Inveresk

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/transforming-the-rivers-edge-at-inveresk
    12 Dec 2022: The new $45. 5m River’s Edge building is continuing to take shape at the Inveresk campus precinct. The building will be home to Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Education. It will offer student counselling, accessibility and learning support,
  50. Thumbnail for Alumnus to represent Australia at international music festival

    Alumnus to represent Australia at international music festival

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/alumnus-to-represent-australia-at-international-music-festival
    21 Jul 2023: Alumni composer Angus Davison has been selected to represent Australia at a prestigious international contemporary music showcase. Music graduate Angus’ piece Nigel will be presented at the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World New
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    Environmental Law Professor appointed to new Biodiversity Council

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/environmental-law-professor-appointed-to-new-biodiversity-council
    19 Dec 2022: Australia’s new Biodiversity Council will look to turn science into reform with the help of the School of Law’s Professor Jan McDonald. Professor McDonald, an expert on environmental law, has been appointed to the Council, which will provide

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