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    Motor Neuron Disease: One step closer, a research journey

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/401-motor-neuron-disease-one-step-closer-a-research-journey
    28 Aug 2017: There are no treatments or cures for Motor Neuron Disease, and most people with the illness die three to five years after diagnosis. For the past 10 years Associate Professor Tracey Dickson’s group at the University of Tasmania's Menzies
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    Renowned science communicator to give Research Week Keynote Lecture

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/405-renowned-science-communicator-to-give-research-week-keynote-lecture
    30 Aug 2017: Associate Professor Paul Willis will deliver the Keynote Lecture at the 2017 Graduate Research Conference. Associate Professor Willis is former Director of the Royal Institution of Australia, presenter on ABC TV's Catalyst program, and a
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    Research finds exergamers need real exercise too

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/416-research-finds-exergamers-need-real-exercise-too
    22 Sep 2017: More and more young Australians are playing video games during their leisure time. Fortunately, video game manufacturers have introduced “exergames” in an effort to make this typically sedentary activity more physically engaging. These
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    Having fun with unexpected research opportunities

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/404-having-fun-with-unexpected-research-opportunities
    29 Aug 2017: As part of the 2017 Research Week Research Excellence Keynote Lecture Series, Dr Lyn Goldberg, Senior Lecturer, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, will present Having fun with unexpected research opportunities: From Tasmania to the
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    Researchers explore lost ancient continent of Zealandia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/419-researchers-explore-lost-ancient-continent-of-zealandia
    27 Sep 2017: A team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart on the research vessel JOIDES Resolution after a nine-week voyage to study the lost and now submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific. The University of Tasmania is one of 16
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    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
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    Mapping the (evolutionary) Tree of Life

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/389-mapping-the-evolutionary-tree-of-life
    22 Aug 2017: In the late 90s, Associate Professor Barbara Holland was a PhD student in the field of Vehicle Routing and Transportation. Attendance at a lunchtime seminar given by Professor Mike Waterman, of Human Genome Project fame, changed everything. The
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    Planners in hot demand in a changing world

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/409-planners-in-hot-demand-in-a-changing-world
    12 Sep 2017: Planning can get a bad rap — more tedious than useful; more regimented than responsive. With a growing focus on innovation and development, the relevance of planning can appear questionable. Yet change is afoot. There is now a substantial gap
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    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
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    Bob Brown wins his case

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/436-bob-brown-wins-his-case
    18 Oct 2017: Bob Brown was arrested under an anti-protest law after refusing to obey police directions to leave a forestry coup at Lapoinya State Forest. AAPThe High Court has ruled today by a 6:1 majority in favour of Bob Brown and Jessica Hoyt’s challenge to
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