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UTS Business School student travels to Abu Dhabi for "Festival of Thinkers"

UTS Business School student, Hardeep Singh Dang, joined two hundred students from around the world to attend the 4th Annual Festival of Thinkers in Abu Dhabi late last year.

UTS student hits the fast lane with taxi booking app

Spurred into programming action by a competition to design applications for Android smart phones, UTS IT student Zac Altman is now turning down offers for his Taxi Pro taxi booking app.

NICTA and Optus launched a new "Unleash Your App" Android application development competition late 2011 with the purpose of unearthing innovative Android applications.

Science PhD student wins the silver medal

PhD student Stephanie Fletcher receives a silver medal for an oral presentation she gave at the International Scientific Conference 2011.

Researchers in Sydney Blaze ahead with world-leading microscope technology

The world's first system for studying the cell biology of living microorganisms at super-resolution has been installed at the University of Technology, Sydney, promising new insights into the behaviour of infectious diseases.

UTS is the world first commercial site for the next generation DeltaVision OMX Blaze super resolution imaging system – a device capable of capturing real-time multiple colour images of interactions between micro organisms and living cells.

Intelligent collaboration with leading China university

Increased research collaboration is beginning between UTS and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) through a joint research centre in Intelligent Systems

Sydney geek girl's Las Vegas jackpot

Most Australian tech entrepreneurs may be beating a path to Silicon Valley but Yiying Lu, UTS graduate student, recently shifted her booming wall graphics business from San Francisco to Las Vegas.

M.Arch. students Joshua Harrex and Tommy Zhou selected for Gehry Partners Internships

Following on from the success of the 2011 program, UTS Architecture and Gehry Partners is again awarding internships in 2012 to Master of Architecture students.

Graduating journalism student takes out Walkley Award

A closer look at social disadvantage in the Western Sydney suburb of Mt Druitt has led a recent UTS journalism graduate to win a 2011 Walkley Award for best online journalism.

The piece called Beating the Odds looked at the Mt Druitt community in shock after the disappearance of six-year-old school girl Kiesha Abrahams. The piece gave the audience an insight into the issues of public housing, unemployment and children at risk of social exclusion in the area.

All-round performer

Many young boys spend time drawing pictures of terrifying dinosaurs wreaking havoc on cities, but few manage to make a career out of it. This isn’t the case for UTS Masters of Animation graduate Daniel Cohn. He says the only difference between now and then is, these days, he gets paid for it.

Four UTS Teams at RoboCup 2011!

The Faculty will have an unprecedented level of participation at global research and education initiative "RoboCup" this year, up from one team in 2003 to four in 2011.

Gehry project opens a chance-in-a-lifetime window for UTS students

If the announcement of Australia's first Frank Gehry building has been exciting for Sydney, it's been doubly so for four UTS architecture students who have earned internships at Gehry Partners in Los Angeles.

Learning the ABC Way

The ABC’s journalism cadetships are among the most keenly-sought in the Australian media and this year five out of the 10 placements have been nabbed by UTS students.