News
May 2012
UTSpeaks: More Intervention
With three UTS experts in Indigenous law reform, this public lecture traces the history of the Northern Territory Intervention and considers its successes and failures.
7 May 2012
Researchers set out to profile the nip, tuck, travel phenomenon
An estimated 50 Australians a month are travelling to Malaysia for cosmetic surgery and researchers would like to know more about them as part of ground-breaking international study of the phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism.
8 May 2012
New study suggests ocean's plankton under greater threat from acidification
New research from the UK and Australia suggests that changes in the ocean's chemistry, as a result of global warming, could threaten organisms such as marine plankton to a greater extent than previously thought.
Dr Mark Baird, a Research Fellow with The Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3) is a member of the international team researching ocean acidification and the changes it causes in the pH levels at the exterior surface of plankton.
10 May 2012
Quake test helps set a new standard for building on soft soil
An often quoted parable has the "foolish builder" building on sand, but in reality many major cities are built on soft deposits – some in earthquake prone regions – and world-leading research at UTS will help make them safer.
Tests conducted last week on UTS's shake table, the largest facility of its kind in Australia, gathered experimental data to support mathematical and computer modelling that together will set a new standard for constructing high-rise buildings in soft soil conditions.
10 May 2012
