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SPECIAL OFFERS FOR UTS:ALUMNI MEMBERS THIS MONTH
20% discount during the 2006 Sydney Symphony season
SAVE on Musica Viva concert packages in 2006
Discounts at the UTS Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic
ALUMNI EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
First Annual New Alumni Drinks
UTS:Alumni Professional Development Seminar
UTS:Alumni Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening
Direct Marketing Seminar
1986-7 GradDip TESOL Reunion
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Thailand
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Hong Kong
2006 UTS:Alumni Dinner, Malaysia
2006 UTS:Alumni Dinner, Shanghai
CITY2SURF 2006
ALUMNI NEWS
Thank you scholarship supporters
Supreme high for new law graduate
Alumni off to Buckingham Palace
ALUMNI CAREERS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Are you looking for a career in the online advertising industry?
Send us your career news
ALUMNI SERVICES
20mb email storage account for alumni
Harbour sailing for $30
Business facility in the Alumni & Development Office
UTS Union Fitness Centre at Broadway
LIFELONG LEARNING
UTS:Centre for New Writing short courses – Winter 2006
UTS NEWS AND INITIATIVES
UTS students win Lancôme Colour Designs Awards
Law reform needed to keep sex industry clean
Recycled water breakthrough
UTS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Sydney Futures Twilight Symposia
UTSpeaks Public Lecture – 15 June 6pm
UTS: Leading Architect lecture featuring Stefan Korschildgen
20% discount for UTS:Alumni members during the 2006 Sydney Symphony season
UTS:Alumni and the Sydney Symphony are delighted to offer a 20% discount to UTS:Alumni members on selected concerts during the 2006 concert season. To book, just call Sydney Symphony Sales on 8215 4648, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and quote ‘UTS:Alumni' offer. Stay tuned each month to see which concerts are discounted. Here is what is on offer during July:
Midori - Sydney Symphony Gala Concert
Beautiful Japanese violinist, Midori, is known for her performances of great emotional power and honesty. In a breathtaking show of stamina, Midori will perform two major concerto’s by Britten and Bruch, and at the heart of this program lies Elgar’s gorgeous Enigma Variations.
Britten Violin Concerto
Elgar Enigma Variations
Bruch Violin Concerto
Thursday 13th and Saturday 15th July, 8pm, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Symphony at the Movies
What would Star Wars be without John Williams’ exhilarating music? Experience the music that made you cry, shiver, laugh or swoon as Clive James guides us through an evening of unforgettable film music by Morricone, Copland and Herrmann, performed by the Sydney Symphony.
Thursday 27th and Saturday 29th July, 8pm, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
For more details please visit www.sydneysymphony.com
SAVE on Musica Viva concert packages in 2006
In conjunction with UTS:Alumni, Musica Viva is now offering UTS:Alumni members a 30% discount on a two or three concert package.*
Choose any two or three concerts from the four remaining in Musica Viva’s Concerts 2006 season and pay only $110 or $159 respectively. That’s a saving of up to 30%!
To take advantage of this offer, please call 1800 688482 and quote ‘UTS:Alumni offer’.
For the full list of upcoming concerts by some of the world’s most talented and exciting performers in 2006 please visit www.musicaviva.com.au or request a brochure by calling 1800 688 482.
* Newcastle 2 pack$89/3 pack $129. Offer excludes Yvonne Kenny concerts.
Yvonne Kenny: A Touch of Venus
Australia's highest selling classsical artist returns to perform an intimate selection of love songs from across the centuries. A special non-subscription concert for Musica Viva across the country from 25 July - 11 August 2006.
Musica Viva Ultimate Diva Experience Competition
Ever wished you could experience a day or two in the life of a diva and be pampered and indulged like a star? Well, here's your opportunity. Buy tickets to see distinguished Soprano, Yvonne Kenny in any participating Australian city before July 17 and go in the draw to win The Ultimate Diva Experience. For further information about this concert and to enter, visit www.musicaviva.com.au
Alumni discounts at the UTS Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic
At UTS' Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Clinic UTS:Alumni members can now access acupuncture, chinese remedial massage (tuina), and chinese herbal medicine services at the student and staff rate.Treatment is by 4th year TCM students under the full supervision of experienced traditional chinese medicine practitioners.
The clinic is located on the ground floor of the new science building (building 4) on Harris Street, Ultimo. For more information (including bookings) please call 9514 2509.
For more details please visit the TCM website: www.science.uts.edu.au/centres/tcm/clinics.html
IMPORTANT: When booking please mention you are a UTS:Alumni member and show your membership card when you attend the clinic.
ALUMNI EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
First Annual New Alumni Drinks
To welcome Autumn 2006 graduates UTS:Alumni will host the First Annual New Alumni Drinks on 20 July 2006. With the chance to kick back with fellow recent grads to the funky sounds of a live band, one free drink per person between 5.30 and 6.30pm, yummy bar snacks aplenty AND lucky door prizes all on offer places are sure to fill up fast! RSVP to reserve yours by 6 July 2006.
All alumni are welcome to attend this event. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Date: Thursday 20 July 2006
Time: 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Venue: The Loft bar, city campus, Broadway
Cost: Free (one free drink per person between 5.30 - 6.30pm, then all drinks at usual cheap UTS union prices) RSVP: ESSENTIAL by Thursday 6 July to: UTS:Alumni
T: 02 9514 8036
F: 02 9514 8033
E: graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
UTS:Alumni Professional Development Seminar - Leading with Emotional Development
On Wednesday 2 August, UTS:Alumni will host the third Professional Development Seminar for 2006: Leading with Emotional Development, presented by Mr Paul Vorbach, Executive Director, Academy Global.
Date: Wednesday 2 August 2006
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm
Cost: $20 per person
Venue: Level 6, Gallery Function Centre, UTS Tower, Broadway
Enquiries: lella.gardner@uts.edu.au 
UTS:Alumni Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening
On Tuesday 8 August, The UTS Alumni & Development Office will host the 2nd Wine and Cheese Appreciation Evening for 2006 . The event will feature specially selected wines from premium wine growing regions across Australia, as well as a series of cheeses to match each wine tasted.
Date Tuesday 8 August 2006
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Sky Room, level 9, Blacket Hotel, 70 King Street, Sydney
Cost: $35 per person
Enquiries: lella.gardner@uts.edu.au
Direct Marketing - How to capture your customer’s heart and keep it forever
The UTS:Business Network is holding a special half-day interactive seminar on Thursday 22 June 2006 to introduce and refine your direct marketing skills to find, keep and grow your customers. Click here for more details.
1986-7 GradDip TESOL Reunion
Survivors of the 1986-87 GradDip TESOL course are invited to a lunch marking two decades since the 1986 intake. 1987 graduates Fran Munro and Peter Fenton are proposing lunch at a Portugese restaurant in Petersham on Saturday 21 October 2006. If Dorothy, Joy or Gabe are reading this then please feel free to attend.
RSVP by 25 September 2006 to either Fran Munro: Frances.Munro@tafensw.edu.au or Peter Fenton at: wjoseph1@optusnet.com.au
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Thailand
Join host Emeritus Professor Tony Moon at this reception for UTS alumni living in Thailand.
Date: Saturday 24 June 2006, 6pm
Venue: Landmark Hotel, Bangkok
RSVP: graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
2006 UTS:Alumni Reception, Hong Kong
The Renaissance Harbour View Hotel is the venue for the 2006 UTS:Alumni Reception in Hong Kong.
Date: Saturday 15 July 2006, 6.30pm
Venue: Oasis Room, 8th Floor, Renaissance Harbour View Hong Kong
RSVP: graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
2006 UTS:Alumni Dinner, Malaysia
The UTS:Alumni Dinner, Malaysia will be held at the prestigious Royal Selangor Golf Club, Kuala Lumpur this year.
Date: Saturday 8 July, 6.00pm
Venue: Fairway Restaurant, The Royal Selangor Golf Club, Kuala Lumpur
RSVP: graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
2006 UTS:Alumni Dinner, Shanghai
UTS alumni living in Shanghai are invited to attend the 2006 UTS Alumni Dinner on Tuesday 11 July at the J. W Marriott Hotel.
Date: Tuesday 11 July 2006, 6.30pm
Venue: Ballroom C, Podium Level 5, J. W Marriott
RSVP: graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
CITY2SURF 2006
Do you want to be part the UTS team at Australia's most famous annual fun run?
When: Sunday 13 August 2006
Where: Sydney City to Bondi Beach
Entry cost: $35.00 adults, $25.00 children (includes a UTS shirt)
Enter before 5 July 2006 to have the shirt mailed to you, after that date please collect your shirt from the UTS tent on the day. Even if you don’t join the UTS team UTS:Alumni members can still access the UTS tent on the day.
For more details please email: city2surf@uts.edu.au
ALUMNI NEWS
Thank you scholarship supporters
A special thank you to all the alumni members who supported the recent appeal for the UTS scholarship fund. Thanks to the generosity of the many UTS alumni who have given to the fund, our University will be able to help more students who might otherwise not have been able to commence or complete their studies.
If you would like to support the UTS scholarship fund please visit the UTS:Alumni website to download a donation form. Donations to the UTS scholarship fund are tax deductible.
Supreme high for new law graduate
If being one of the newest solicitors admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW after sixteen gruelling weeks of Practical Legal Training is not achievement enough, how about doing it while raising a toddler and from a wheelchair?
Louise Marie Briggs who recently completed her Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, did just that. At 32, just married and having recently finished five years of intense legal study, she is exuberant and thrilled to finally be admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW. Read more
Alumni off to Buckingham Palace
UTS alumni Michele (Tsalta) Phillips (B. Bus Finance & Economics ’91) will join Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace this month to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Commonwealth Study Conferences.
The aim of the program, founded by Prince Phillip, is to identify people from the Commonwealth with leadership potential and provide them with the opportunity to learn from the experiences of others.
Michele was accepted into the program in 2003 as a result of her teaching and work on the impact of multinationals on communities in developing countries, and the choices managers make between profit expediency and social good-will.
Michele is the Asia Pacific Regional Product Director for Electrolux, having previously held leadership positions with Kimberly-Clark, Nestle, Mars and Procter & Gamble.
ALUMNI CAREERS & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Are you looking for a career in the online advertising industry?
Tempest Media is looking for a Junior Campaign Coordinator whose primary responsibility is to ensure successful delivery of all online advertising campaigns. Your creative flair, passion and experience online will be crucial to the success of your application as well as your basic knowledge/understanding of HTML programming. As you will be dealing closely with the Sales team and especially with clients, you must be a confident verbal and written communicator with excellent time management skills. If you want not a job but a career in the online advertising industry, please email your application letter with a CV attached to mark@tempestmedia.com by 18th June 2006.
Send us your career news
Please keep us updated with your career news, or any achievements and awards you may have received. We are preparing our next publication and would love to hear from you.
Email your career news to graduate.connections@uts.edu.au
ALUMNI SERVICES
20mb email storage account for alumni
UTS:Alumni is pleased to announce that UTS now offers all graduates access to a unique your.name@alumni.uts.edu.au email address with 20mb storage.
This FREE email account can be accessed from anywhere in the world via UTS Webmail: www.uts.edu.au/email
For more details please visit the UTS:Alumni website.
Harbour sailing for $30
Enjoy a beautiful afternoon of sailing on Sydney Harbour with up to 5 friends on Impulse, UTS Union's skippered yacht.
When: Friday and Sunday afternoons (all year round except for public holidays)
Time: 1 to 4pm
Venue: Double Bay Sailing Club
Cost: $30 students, staff & alumni, $40 others (includes 3 hour sail & skipper)
For bookings or more details, please contact the Recreation Officer:
T: +612 9514 1889
E: unionsports@uts.edu.au
Business facility in the Alumni & Development Office
Registered members are invited to use the business centre in the Alumni & Development Office. If you would like to make a booking, please contact us on +612 9514 8036.
To register with UTS:Alumni please visit www.graduateconnections@uts.edu.au
UTS Union Fitness Centre at Broadway
As a UTS alumni member you are entitled to student rates at the UTS Union fitness centre. Visit the centre on Harris Street for a work out, or join one of the many fitness classes including aerobics, yoga, circuit training and pilates.
For further information, T: +612 9514 2444
LIFELONG LEARNING
UTS:Centre for New Writing short courses – Winter 2006
MASTERCLASS FOR FICTION WRITERS with Glenda Adams
For experienced fiction writers who want to take their manuscript to a professional level.
WRITING ABOUT FOOD with John Newton
Food writing is a rapidly growing branch of creative writing, a discipline that combines the senses and the intellect.
WRITING FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE with Hilary Bell
The focus on this new course is on the creative development of writing for performance skills.
BOOK PUBLISHING – THE BUSINESS, THE PROCESSES, THE PITFALLS with Bernadette Foley and Brett Osmond. A one day course which explores all aspects of the publishing process, including non traditional alternatives for writers.
To register in our short courses please visit www.newwriting.uts.edu.au/courses/index.html or email newwriting@uts.edu.au
UTS NEWS AND INITIATIVES
UTS students win Lancôme Colour Designs Awards
On 8th May 2006 three final year fashion students were announced winners of the 2nd Lancôme Colour Designs Awards in Australia. Winners Jessica Dudgeon, Sophie McGinn, and Anita Nordin then flew to Paris for the Lancôme Colour Designs Awards World Final event on 11 May.
Law reform needed to keep sex industry clean
Changes to laws on how brothels are regulated by New South Wales councils could see a rise in crime, corruption and illegally run brothels according to UTS law researcher Penny Crofts.
Speaking at the recent UTSpeaks Public Lecture Ms Crofts said although brothels had been legal in NSW for more than a decade, changes to state legislation could drive many small sex businesses back underground.
Recycled water breakthrough
Over one billion people throughout the world have no safe drinking water and almost two and a half billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation. In order to provide people with water and to ease the strain on dwindling supplies of freshwater, recycled water has been touted as a solution both globally and locally.
An unfortunate side effect of treating used water is the sludge and chemical waste that remains. But the PhD research of post doctorate fellow Dr Hokyong Shon, of the Faculty of Engineering, presents a world-first solution to this problem.
UTS EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Sydney Futures Twilight Symposia
Sydney is a global metropolis sliding into chaos. A beautiful city with a declining infrastructure, a city once characterised by its concerns for social justice, it is now harder to live in, unhealthier, more dangerous, more expensive, and far less equitable than its potential holds.
In a desire to stimulate debate among citizens about the future of our city and its region, the University of Technology, Sydney is sponsoring six twilight symposia focusing on critical issues in the city's future.
July's symposium, Keeping the local in the global city: LEPs, debates whether the state government will use its new powers to remove the local from the city and examines how to ensure communities are viable and supportive environments. Will new directions mean more "cookie-cutter" suburbs?
Panel: Genia McCaffrey, Alison Ziller
Date: 6 July, 2006, 4pm to 7pm
Location: City - Broadway, CB04. Level 2 (entrance on Harris Street), Room 38
Price: $22 per event, series of six $110
More details: Ruby Seaward +61 2 9514 9933
For more details or to register, please visit the DAB website.
UTSpeaks Public Lecture – 15 June 6pm
Education has been one of the slowest sectors to embrace the promise of online technology's rapid advance. Can these new technologies assist learning, and if so, how might resistance to e-learning be overcome?
Using a virtual excursion into two digital worlds, one created by students, another by teachers, this free public lecture explores the possibility that confusion about how we learn impedes the uptake of new technologies in Education. Join us to provoke your thinking about what it means to learn. Refresh your ideas about curriculum, assessment, teaching and teacher and parent education.
Speaker: Associate Professor Lyn Schaverien
Date: Thursday 15 June 2006, 6pm drinks for 6.30pm start
Venue: UTS Guthrie Theatre, Level 3, Peter Johnson Building, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo
Free Parking: Peter Johnson Building basement car park, 702-730 Harris St Ultimo
RSVP: to Robert Button T: 02 9514 1734 E: robert.button@uts.edu.au
UTS: Leading Architect lecture featuring Stefan Korschildgen
For the first time in Sydney, Stefan will present work from his architecture and design practice Kalhoefer- Korschildgen, based in Cologne, Germany. His innovative practice pursues adaptable spatial environments and systems, promoting interpretative user functionality through flexible infrastructure. The work seeks to challenge the common frozen architectural outcome. More details: www.kalhoefer-korschildgen.de
Date: 22 June 2006
Time: 6-7.30pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Peter Johnson Building, Building 6, Level 3, Room 322, 702 Harris Street Ultimo
For more information please contact Steve Hatzellis E:steve.hatzellis@uts.edu.au or T: 02 9514 8782