e:Connect June 2007
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THIS MONTH'S SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU The Wine Society Special - Stock Your Cellar Now! WIN Dendy Film Tickets to Lucky Miles |
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WHAT'S ON Team UTS for the City to Surf Senior Network: A Love Affair with Doris Day UTSpeaks FREE Public Lecture - Doing Business With China FREE Nobel Public Lecture Series Smörgåsbord - HURRY Closes Soon! |
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Centre for New Writing Short Courses IT Short Courses UTS Short Courses |
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CONSIDER SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS AT UTS Consider support for Scholarships at UTS |
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT UTS UTS received one of two Senior Fellowships that were awarded, worth up to $330,000 for the Dean of the University Graduate School, Professor David Boud. UTS Science Faculty's Associate Professor Les Kirkup won an Associate Fellowship worth up to $90,000 with a further Associate Fellowship shared by the UTS Faculty of IT's Dr Raymond Lister and Professor Jenny Edwards. Full Story. |
| ALUMNI BENEFITS |
Find Your Sea Legs with 10% off Sailing on Sydney Harbour 
Why not see a different side of Sydney and spend a leisurely afternoon sailing on the beautiful Harbour?
The UTS Union owns a 30ft yacht, and on Friday or Sunday afternoons, 1pm - 4pm for just $30 per head for UTS:Alumni members or $40 non-alumni members, you can enjoy a relaxing sail on Sydney Harbour, or learn the art of sailing. Professional and friendly skippers can take up to 5 passengers on the yacht.
For the months of June and July, the UTS Union is offering 10% off the total price of yacht hire for UTS:Alumni members and their friends.
To book your day out, please contact the UTS Sports Office on 9514 1454.
Dymocks Discount for UTS:Alumni Members
Attention bookworms! Dymocks is offering a special discount to UTS:Alumni members.
All you have to do is sign up to the Dymocks Booklover program at http://www.dymocks.com.au/Booklovers/default.aspx to receive a 5% discount on your web purchases or purchases made at any Dymocks stores.
Plus, receive an additional 5% discount off ANY purchase at Sydney's George Street store when you present your UTS:Alumni card.
So plump the pillows of your reading chair and start shopping today!
Log on to the UTS:Alumni online interactive member area
Your e-Business Directory and e:Communities are now online!
To better connect alumni members and promote networking, UTS:Alumni has launched your online interactive member area. The member area features an e-Business Directory where you can list your business or professional details FREE of charge. Plus you can view and update your details as they appear in our database and join alumni networks.
The e-Business Directory is just the beginning, e-Communities is now online too.
e-Communities is an online service to help alumni meet and network with fellow UTS graduates all over the world. You'll be able to chat online to help solve professional problems, or just catch up and keep in touch with each other and your UTS faculty. It's also a great way to find out about professional career development and employment opportunities.
To access these features, simply login at www.members.alumni.uts.edu.au
If you are not yet registered with UTS:Alumni, register now! Membership is FREE and available to all graduates of UTS and its antecedent organisations.
By the way, did you know that all UTS registered alumni can continue accessing UTS's first rate library and online services?
For a full list of UTS:Alumni benefits, please visit the Member Benefits section on the UTS:Alumni website.
| ALUMNI NEWS |
UTS Films Shine at the Sydney Film Festival
UTS alumni have made their mark on this year's Sydney Film Festival.
Master of Animation graduate, Lucinda Schreiber, is a finalist for the Yoram Gross Animation Award in the 2007 Sydney Film Festival. Lucinda directed and produced The Goat That Ate Time - a story about a goat who realises that time is dangerously delicious, as her final Masters project in 2006.
Masters of Media Arts and Production alumnus Ben Phelps directed Checkpoint, about a family who find themselves under siege during a holiday road trip in NSW. Ben's film has been nominated as a finalist for both the Fiction and Multiculturalism CRC Awards.
And UTS Documentary Production lecturer, Belinda Mason, is also a finalist for the CRC Award for her film, Growing up and Going Home, a film about three Ethiopian teenagers, adopted by an extended Australian family as children, returning to Ethiopia to reconnect with the family, friends and culture they left behind.
The Dendy Awards is the premier competition for short films Australia wide.
Congratulations and good luck to Lucinda, Ben and Belinda!
Students Discover the Fun Side of Science at UTS
In connection with the Nobel Exhibition theme Beautiful Minds, and driven by the desire to build a closer relationship with the top UTS Science feeder schools, the Science Faculty recently ran two well-received "Creative Science" programs for specially targeted schools.
Six teams of talented science students from years 8, 9 and 10 battled it out in "Shipwrecked! The Creative Science Challenge", where each group attempted three tasks associated with life on a desert island. The creative thinking tasks included think-tanks on locating fresh water sources; finger-print identification; cracking an electronic code; navigating treasure maps; and constructing a working compass and telescope in order to escape their island prison!
After the success of the junior secondary school years, "Pursuing Creative Science", a careers program for students from years 10, 11 and 12 was held. Nic Svenson, Australia's own Ig Nobel Prize winner for her research into blinking in group photos, delivered an eccentric, crowd-pleasing presentation on the Ig Nobels and creativity in science. Discussions were held about career trajectories in science, and students were urged to consider a science degree as an excellent preparation for all kinds of careers.
Congratulations and thanks to all those who helped make both programs such a success.
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You can't afford to miss these FREE public lectures! Leading up to the conclusion of the Beautiful Minds, Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prizes at UTS, the lectures feature something for everyone.
In hosting Beautiful Minds, UTS expresses its commitment to creativity, innovation and peace. The exhibition includes scholarly, public and educational programs involving international Nobel Laureates, staff and students from across the University.
The exhibition closes on 30 June, so see it now before it's too late!
Exhibition times:
Weekdays: 10am - 8pm
Weekends: 10am - 5pm
At the UTS Tower Building 1, Broadway until 30 June.
For a full list of the FREE public lectures and seminars, please click here. Bookings are now open.
Below are just some of the lectures on offer. We hope you can make it to one or more of the lectures, and share in the exclusive Nobel experience at UTS.
Challenges in Science Education Forum: teaching and learning in schools and universities
Dr Mark Butler, Dr Manjula Sharma, Dr Paul Willis and Associate Professor Peter Aubusson.
Date: Thursday June 14 Time: 7 - 8:30pm Venue: UTS Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.13, Ultimo
The Big Bang, Black holes and pulsars: discoveries in space
Professor Ron Ekers Foundation Director of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility, ARC Federation Fellow and President of the International Astronomical Union.
Date: Wednesday June 20 Time: 7 - 8.30pm Where: UTS Building 2, Level 4, room 4.13, Ultimo
Nobel Voices and Nobel collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Dr James Gardner is Associate Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Office of Curatorial Affairs.
Date: Thursday June 21 Time: 7 - 8.30pm Venue: UTS Building 2, Level 4, room 4.13, Ultimo
To find out more about these public lectures or to book your place, got to: http://www.nobel.uts.edu.au/programs/publiclectures.html
UTSpeaks FREE Public Lecture - Doing Business With China
UTSpeaks is a free public lecture series presented by UTS experts discussing a range of important issues confronting contemporary Australia.
You and your guests are invited to the topical June lecture: China's Company Cultures: Sage insights on doing business with the biggest nation on earth.
This topic is a popular one and places are filling up fast, so don't miss out and register now!
When: Tuesday 19 June 2007
Time: 6pm drinks for 6.30pm start
Where: Guthrie Theatre, Level 3, Peter Johnson Building, 702 Harris St, Ultimo
RSVP: To Robert Button by Monday 18 June
E: robert.button@uts.edu.au T: 02 9514 1734
Free Parking at the Peter Johnson Building basement car park 702 Harris St Ultimo
Please click here for your invitation.
China's Company Cultures: Sage insights on doing business with the biggest nation on earth
This free public lecture maps the complexity of Chinese corporate life where individual companies often have cultural and political landscapes as complex and unique as that of modern China itself. What must Australian enterprises know to forge rewarding partnerships with Chinese companies? How can they achieve flexibility and adaptability to work with a growing number of Chinese companies actively seeking interests in the west?
Guest Lecturer: Colin Hawes
Born in the United Kingdom, UTS Law lecturer Dr Colin Hawes has a degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Durham and a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He began research in Chinese and East Asian law while teaching Chinese language and culture at the University of Alberta, Canada, then returned to UBC to complete a degree in law. Colin's specialty is the intersection of legal reform and culture and what happens to laws when imported into new cultural contexts. His research focuses on transformation in Chinese corporate culture, Chinese corporate governance and banking reforms, and judicial reform in China.
We look forward to seeing you and your guests at the lecture.
Senior Network: A Love Affair with Doris Day
The UTS:Alumni Senior Network is holding a Doris Day film tribute on Thursday 28 June. Bring your popcorn and settle in for a night of nostalgia.
Venue: UTS Building 10, Level 2, Room 410
The newly formed UTS:Alumni Senior Network (link: to is open to all UTS graduates of 10 years' standing and to graduates of any of UTS's antecedent organisations. Former and current staff of UTS or antecedent organisations with 10 or more years' service are also eligible to join.
If you would like to attend the Doris Day Movie Night, please RSVP to the Alumni Office by 22 June. Email alumni@uts.edu.au
New Alumni Drinks and Tips from 'Sam and the City'
Love, lust and speed dating - the dos, don'ts and never agains! Inviting all new graduates to join UTS alumnus Sam Brett, author of the popular Sydney Morning Herald dating blog, 'Sam and the City', for relationship tips and drinks at the Loft.
Come and celebrate your degree success with Sam Brett. Sam will be there to share her dating tips and career success post UTS with you.
Date: Thursday 2 August
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: The Loft, UTS
Cost: $10.00
RSVP: by Thursday 26th June
E. alumni@uts.edu.au P. 9514 8036 F. 9514 8033
We look forward to sharing a drink and some relationship tips with you on the night!
Have fun or go hard, but start stretching your muscles now!
Join Team UTS for the City to Surf on Sunday 12 August. There are plenty of great prizes on offer.
This year we have some great new initiatives and we're aiming to race with the biggest UTS team ever. We have a variety of different Starter Packs, for the serious and not-so-serious, along with some great prizes on offer, including parties at the Loft and a marquee with refreshments at Bondi Beach on completion of the race.
Join us and download your registration pack now!
| ALUMNI CAREERS |
WANTED: External Members for Ethics and Research Committees
UTS has a number of research ethics and safety committees which require volunteer external members. These committees are a vital part of the University's research support structure.
Currently we are seeking external community members for our Animal Care and Ethics Committee. The Committee meets at the Royal North Shore Hospital on the third Thursday of every month. Committee members are asked to review applications prior to the meeting, with applications discussed and approved at each month's meeting. Membership involves attendance at meetings, review of applications and occasional inspections.
If you would like more information or to express you interest in the volunteer external members' roles, please contact Research Ethics Manager, Susana Gorman. E. Susanna.Gorman@uts.edu.au or P. 9514 1279.
Online Job Vacancies for Alumni
UTS:Alumni members can now search for job vacancies online via the UTS Careers Service website: http://scmapp.itd.uts.edu.au/scm/jobw.
If you have not yet registered with UTS:Alumni, click here.
You will need to log on using your alumni email account details. To activate your alumni 20mb storage account visit https://email.itd.uts.edu.au/webapps/myaccount. Click on the 'Activate your account!' link and follow the prompts to set up your UTS:Alumni email account.
You will then be able to access your email account via UTS Webmail: www.uts.edu.au/email
If you have any further queries please contact UTS:AlumniE. alumni@uts.edu.au or T. 02 9514 8036.
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UTS:Alumni Senior Network
The newly formed UTS:Alumni Senior Network is open to all UTS graduates of 10 years' standing and to graduates of any of UTS's antecedent organisations. Former and current staff of UTS or antecedent organisations with 10 or more years' service are also eligible to join.
The inaugural Senior Network event in April, saw the election of a Network Committee. Chairman, Colin Grady presented Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Milbourne with a $30,000 donation from the former Alumni Association. The donation has been invested in perpetuity. Interest raised will be used to fund scholarships for disadvantaged students.
For more information about joining the UTS:Alumni Senior Network , please email alumni@uts.edu.au
JOIN a UTS:Alumni Network today!
Are you interested in opportunities for social and professional networking with alumni from your faculty, or who live in the same region, or work in the same field as you? Then join your UTS:Alumni Networks and keep in touch and add to the friends and colleagues you made in your university days and meet more UTS people.
Alumni members are closely involved in running networks, with support from the UTS:Alumni & Development Office. Graduates are welcome to join an existing alumni network, or can set up a new alumni network with assistance from the UTS:Alumni & Development Office.
For a full list of active UTS:Alumni Networks click here.
If your preferred Network is not up and running yet, why not contact the Alumni Office to set it up?
P. 9514 8036 or E. alumni@uts.edu.au
| GRADUATE PROFILE |
Rosalind Elliott, Master of Nursing (Honours), 2006
Nursing graduate Rosalind Elliott is the recipient of the Northern Sydney Central Coast Health (NSCCH) Nursing and Midwifery Award 2007 in the Research category.
Currently a Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), Rosalind has been awarded this honour because of her role as an outstanding researcher.
She uses her skills in research to generate improvements in practice that are clinically relevant and enable tangible improvements to the quality of care and outcomes for patients.
In 2005, Rosalind initiated the RNSH telephone follow-up service for former ICU patients, based on the results of local research on patients' experiences of and recovery from critical illness in intensive care.
Professor of Critical Care Nursing at UTS and NSCCH, Sharon McKinley, nominated Rosalind for the award, describing her as a tireless advocate for nursing practices to improve patient comfort and quality of care.
Click here for Rosalind's full story.
Please keep us updated with your career news, or any achievements and awards you may have received. We are preparing our next e:Connect and would love to hear from you.
Email your career news to alumni@uts.edu.au
| THIS MONTHS SPECIAL OFFERS FOR YOU |
The Wine Society Special - Stock Your Cellar Now!
All our members who appreciate a fine drop, will value The Wine Society's special alumni offer with exclusive wines and online savings. Get ready to stock your cellar now!
Purchase the Medal Winning Mixed selection (valued at over $155) for ONLY $129, and you will receive FREE lifetime Membership to The Wine Society.
The Medal Winning Mixed selection includes two bottles each of these quality wines*:
Outback Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2006
Society Clare Valley Riesling 2006
Elderton Unwooded Chardonnay 2006
Kingston Estate Cabernet 2005
Grant Burge Barossa Vines Cabernet Merlot 2005
Jacob's Creek Reserve Shiraz 2004
*Due to popularity, wines may be substituted with other wines of similar value and quality.
To remain an active Wine Society Member, you must purchase $100 worth of wine or services per year. An easy task with the competitively priced, quality wines on offer.
To find out more or to take up the exclusive UTS:Alumni offer, call The Wine Society on 1300 723 723 and quote code UTW0607 along with your UTS:Alumni member ID.
Visit The Wine Society website: http://www.winesociety.com.au
WIN Dendy Film Tickets to Lucky Miles
UTS:Alumni has 10 in-season double passes to the amazing Australian film, Lucky Miles, to give away. Based on a collection of true stories, Lucky Miles is a bitter-sweet comedy about distance, difference and dud maps. A special film with a wonderful blend of humour and poignancy, one not to be missed!
To be in the running to WIN, all you have to do is place a post on your online e:Communities forum and you will automatically go in the draw to win!
Simply login at www.members.alumni.uts.edu.au and post a reply to any one of the topics in an e-Community. Your user name and password will be your student number and alumni membership number (shown on your alumni card). We advise you to reset your password after you log in.
LUCKY MILES
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia. Pursued by an army reservist unit, our three heroes wander deeper into the desert, desperately searching for civilisation amongst the stones of the Pilbara.
Darkly funny and uniquely Australian, a special film not to be missed!
In cinemas July 19.
| LIFELONG LEARNING AT UTS |
Centre for New Writing Short Courses
The UTS Centre for New Writing has a range of short courses to satisfy your career development needs. There is a 10% discount available for all registered UTS:Alumni members.
Masterclass for Fiction Writers with Jean Bedford
Monday 18 June, 6-8 pm for six weeks (one evening per week), Cost $365
UTS, City Campus, Broadway, 755 Harris Street, Bon Marche, Level 2, Room 210
Registration
For experienced fiction writers who want to take their manuscript to a professional level. This course is taught by one of the most experienced creative writing teachers in Australia.
Jean Bedford is a well-known Australian novelist and short-story writer. She has written literary fiction, detective novels and a thriller. She has also been a journalist and an in-house or freelance editor for many of Australia's mainstream publishers. She has taught creative writing for over 20 years in most of the universities and writers' centres on Australia's east coast and has been a judge for the Vogel/Australian Literary Awards, for the National Book Council, the Literature Board of the Australia Council grants for fiction and publishing and for several short story prizes and awards. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at UTS.
Writing about Food with John Newton
Tuesday 19 June, 6-8 pm for six weeks (one evening per week), Cost $365
UTS, City Campus, 1 Broadway, Broadway, Building 2, Level 7, Room 7065A
Registration
Food writing is a rapidly growing branch of creative writing, a discipline that combines the senses and the intellect.
John Newton is a freelance writer, journalist and novelist. Some of his food books are Wogfood, An Oral History With Recipes; and Fresh From Italy; with Stefano Manfredi; and bel mondo beautiful world also with Stefano Manfredi; and The Foodies Guide to Sydney with Helen Greenwood. His books on Spanish food include A Little Taste of Spain and The Cooking of Spain. He was consultant editor on Food: the essential A-Z guide. His two novels are Whoring and The Man Who Painted Women. He writes for The Sydney Morning Herald, Life Etc, The Organic Gardener and Slow. He is also co- editor of the restaurant guide Sydney Eats. His latest book is Beppi, a life in three courses. He won the Gold Ladle for Best Food Journalist in the 2005 World Food media Awards.
Memoir and Place with Barbara Brooks
Wednesday 20 June, 6-9 pm for four weeks (one evening per week), Cost $365
UTS, City Campus, 235 Johns Street, Broadway, Building 10, Level 6, Room 440
Registration
"Geography makes us what we are," Patrick White said. Every story is a journey from one place to another place, a journey through a place. This creative non-fiction writing course looks at place through topics like research and memory, people and place, what a sense of place means in writing and ways of approaching it. Through discussion, readings, information and writing exercises, this course will help you develop your skills and creativity.
Barbara Brooks has published a book of short essays and stories, Leaving Queensland, and a biography, Eleanor Dark: a Writer's Life. Barbara's essays and stories have been published in anthologies in Australia, UK, US, France, and Malaysia. She is currently working on a novel in the form of memoir as part of a Doctorate in Creative Writing at UTS. She is an experienced teacher of writing and has taught at universities, in continuing education programs, at writers' centres, as well as running writing and oral history projects with community groups. Last year she was awarded an Asialink Fellowship and spent 2 months in India. She was also the 2006 Watermark Writing Fellow and will speak at the Watermark Literary Muster in October 2007.
For further information, please email newwriting@uts.edu.au
UTS:IT has a range of short courses for the experienced professional, intended to satisfy various career development needs. Prove that you are serious about your IT career and take the next step.
There is a 10% discount available for all registered UTS:Alumni members. When booking, please quote your membership number.
Upcoming short courses:
NETWORK SECURITY - commences 23/6/07
http://it.uts.edu.au/course/shortcourse/cisco/netsec.html
Seeking expressions of interest for:
CCNP preparation stage 1
http://it.uts.edu.au/course/shortcourse/cisco/ccnp1.html
Fundamentals of Unix (Solaris & Linux)
http://it.uts.edu.au/course/shortcourse/cisco/unix.html
IP Telephony and Voice over IP
http://it.uts.edu.au/course/shortcourse/cisco/voip.html
Further information on all IT short courses is available at:
http://it.uts.edu.au/course/shortcourse/index.html
For enquiries or to make your short course booking, please phone Julie Lui P. 9514 1806 or Elaine Lawrence P. 9514 1861, or email shortcourse@it.uts.edu.au
Registered members of UTS:Alumni are entitled to a 10% discount on selected short course programs. So take advantage of this offer and continue your education!
For a comprehensive list of all current UTS short courses, please visit: http://www.shortcourses.uts.edu.au/
| CONSIDER SUPPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS AT UTS |
Invest in knowledge - Buy a UTS library book
UTS enjoys a strong reputation based on a total educational package. This includes the excellent teaching and learning resources provided by the UTS Library.
Please consider making an investment - an investment in knowledge. By purchasing one or more books for the Library you will inspire hundreds of students eager to learn and help teaching staff make an even greater contribution to the achievements of UTS long into the future.
Every book purchased will be acknowledged with a special nameplate showing the name of the donor or someone nominated by the donor.
Please click here to make your knowledge investment.
Consider support for scholarships at UTS
This year, UTS is working to increase the funds available to make it possible for disadvantaged yet able students to complete a course at our university. UTS is appealing to the business community, UTS staff, alumni and other generous people to help UTS fund scholarships for disadvantaged students.
Already many students, some with disabilities or from disadvantaged backgrounds, have benefited from this generous support.
Donations to the fund are fully tax deductible and your contribution will be of lasting benefit to the students and to society.
I would like to support scholarships at UTS