THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF UTS SPRING 2019 | ISSUE 19

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03 04 07 08 Welcome News 5 questions A place of in brief with Professor belonging Peter Scott

09 22 24 25 Midwife on Ahead of The power of Determined a mission the game values-driven to learn 10 leadership Alumni Awards 2019 Meet the inspiring UTS alumni whose creativity, determination and game- 26 28 30 31 changing achievements have been recognised this year World class The cell The gift of Tall tales from separator a safer society a UTS giant

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3 SPRING 2019 new ground and inspiration for me and the position to respond to the changing it comes to research impact and Stay up-to-date on our research breakthroughs broader UTS community. Now needs of learners, industry and our quality, we’re leading the country. numbering over 225,000, our community. The Australian Research Council’s and social justice projects and the extraordinary graduates are working in every Now more than ever, UTS is recent Engagement and Impact career journeys of your fellow graduates. From corner of the globe and making committed to personalised learning Assessment ranked UTS as number the Ultimo campus to far beyond, wherever UTS an impact in every field of experiences that prepare and one for research impact. is having an impact, you’ll be the first to know. human endeavour. support our graduates to succeed These results speak to the In this edition, you can in the future workforce, driving quality of our teaching, learning and read about the achievements innovation and entrepreneurship, student experience, the future- of 11 extraordinary alumni supporting open and rigorous focused design of our courses and whose creativity, innovation and public debate and delivering the life-changing impact of our determination have made them excellent, impactful research. research. Thank you for being an game changers in their industries. As alumni, you’re a vital part integral part of these stellar results. They have been selected from over of the UTS community and a key I hope you will stay connected with 60 nominees as our 2019 Alumni factor in our ongoing success. As UTS and your global community of Award winners. I encourage you to we transform the entire university game-changing alumni. read their remarkable stories on to focus on a lifetime of learning, pages 10–21. our commitment is to support the This year the university professional development of our launched its next long-term students and graduates throughout strategy, UTS 2027. With an their whole career and lives. ambitious vision to be a leading Whether you are a recent public university of technology graduate or already progressing in Connect with us! recognised for our global impact, your career, think of UTS as your Professor Attila Brungs Follow UTS Alumni (Official) on LinkedIn and we’re building on our strengths lifetime learning partner, helping Vice–Chancellor and President UTS Alumni on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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PHOTOGRAPH BY SISSY REYES assistance and extra tutoring. to hermidwifery degree, financial and Research, Dowerfound apathway Institute for Indigenous Education community andthe Jumbunna do it,”shesays. show mewhere togo. I’ve justhad to university asapath shecould take. also hadn’t grown upwiththeidea of in herfamily tofinish Year 12,Dower children atyouth a centre. As thefirst up herjob working withIndigenous to supportandcouldn’t afford togive young Indigenous mothers. becoming amidwife andhelping other Candace Dower dreamed of midwife. young Indigenous a trailblazing asa DowerCandace is of UTS alumni, supportWith the a mission Midwife on With thesupportof theUTS “I’ve never had anyone whocould But shehad twosmall children

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SPRING 2019 9 TOWER UTS WORDS BYEMMAMULHOLLAND world.the Australia around and making adifference in graduates are who inspiring UTSand passionate, innovative Alumni Awardwinners: Meet thisyear’s 2019 in awheelchair.” to cartmethewater my eighties, they’re going tohave always beenahobby. When I’min Underwater photography. “It’s SECRET SKILL drug Taxol the biochemist behindcancer Professor BandHorwitz, Susan ROLE MODEL Children’s CancerInstitute Biology andTargeting program, Professor andHead of Tumour NanoMedicine Director, Australian Centre for CURRENT POSITIONS (Biomedical), 1989 Bachelor of Applied Science UTS DEGREE EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR CHANCELLOR’S UTS SCIENCE AWARD AM KAVALLARIS MARIA PROFESSOR

nanotech Tackling cancer with new delivery methods for anti-cancer Kavallaris hasalso beeninvestigating resistance. the causes of tumourgrowth todrug on arange of projects, from looking at a team of 24researchers andworks at theinstitute, where sheoversees Cancer Institute. laboratory technician at theChildren’s undergraduate studies and workasa give up, shejuggled treatment withher diagnosed with cancerat 21.Not oneto of this ‘collateral damage’, having been possibly, lifelong side effects. a suppressed immunesystem and, get badly damaged too.” cells that also needtodivide regularly killed but,asaconsequence, normal dividing andmorevulnerable tobeing “Cancer cellstendtobemore rapidly they workoncancer,” shesays. — effective, butimprecise. they’re akindof “bucket chemistry” Professor MariaKavallaris AM, isthat and other cancertreatments, says The problem withchemotherapy Q & A Q An expert in cancernanomedicine, yearsSome 35 later, sheremains Kavallaris haspersonal experience For patients, thismeans hairloss, “The drugs are toxic, that’s why that Iwascapable. to prove tomyself realised Ijusthad PhD. Intheend,I who’d finisheda than someone technician, rather me asalaboratory people still saw Early on,alot of career? challengesyour of of the biggest What’s beenone with theproblem andworkbackwards.” from adisease perspective: tostart vision wastotackle nanomedicine youyour‘Can fititin system?’ Our designing things thensaying tous, Kavallaris, “butbecausethey were created something fantastic,” says standards, such astoxicity testing. the product often didn’t satisfy basic says. Herteam would runtests but you could useitfor cancer,’” she things thensaying tous, ‘Oh,wethink chemists were creating these clever work isdonein Australia. and haschanged theway thiskindof scientists, oncologists andclinicians, more than130 chemists, engineers, interdisciplinary team hasgrown to NanoMedicine in2011.Sincethen,the co-founding the Australian Centre for funding. attracted anincredible $45millionin healthy ones. Herwork sofar has directly target tumourcells, sparing treatments, including drugs that would we don’t. reach it,sometimes sometimes we representation; 50 percent and weaimfor conferences chair international a long way togo. I but westillhave It’s getting better field these days? more women in the Areyou seeing “It’s not becausethey hadn’t “At thetime, engineers and But Kavallaris ismostproud of problem-solving. vision andlove You’ve got tohave years23 ago. postdoc studies now, Istartedinmy the workI’mdoing it would. Some of wayyou thought to workoutthe you doisnot going 95 percentof what to anticipate that research,you have you’reWhen doing graduates? science you have for What advice do

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Earlier this year, journalist Brooke Boney GPS plays a central role in modern “It was clear no-one cared about swapped the cutthroat world of news life, but the technology — developed the firefighter example,” he says. and politics for the cutthroat world of in the 1960s for military use — “They’d say, ‘Are you crazy? Google breakfast TV. Just days into her new job You’re the first isn’t really suited to the age of needs this, Apple needs this, Uber Indigenous person as Today’s entertainment reporter, she on commercial the smartphone, argues robotics needs this.’” was asked for her thoughts on Change breakfast TV. Do you engineer Dr Ashod Donikian. At the time, Donikian was sleeping the Date, a campaign to move Australia feel the pressure of “It wasn’t built for using indoors in his car and pitching to anyone who that? Day from the date of the First Fleet’s or in dense city areas,” he says, “and would listen. First responders, it turns arrival in Sydney. Yes, for a couple it has a very low power signal because out, aren’t early adopters. of reasons. I want BROOKE All smiles, Boney cut to the chase. to do justice to all DR ASHOD it’s meant to be invisible to enemies.” “Once we’re trusted by the “This is the best country in the world, no the people who’ve For his PhD, Donikian tasked commercial market, we can go into BONEY doubt,” she said. “But I can’t separate supported me, DONIKIAN himself with inventing a location- this smaller, adjacent one,” he says. and to be the best INDIGENOUS the 26th of January from the fact that my possible advocate ENGINEERING tracking system that would not only Today, Donikian’s company, brothers are more likely to go to jail than and representative work inside, but could be used to find Navisens, employs nine engineers AUSTRALIAN from the community, AND INFORMATION AWARD they are to go to school, or that my little but without trying to TECHNOLOGY firefighters in a burning building. and licenses the technology to app sisters and my mum are more likely to speak on behalf of AWARD The best sensor, he decided, is the developers who require location be beaten and raped than anyone else’s everyone. one in your pocket: your smartphone. tracking, be it for maps, ride-sharing sisters and mum, and that started from What are you most Using machine-learning algorithms, he services or delivering goods. UTS TOWER UTS proud of? TOWER UTS UTS DEGREE that day.” created a technology that harnesses While the company is still at Bachelor of Communication The backlash was fierce and Boney, a I always stand up UTS DEGREES a device’s inbuilt accelerometers and startup stage, Donikian is in talks with (Journalism), 2014 Gamilaroi Gomeroi woman, admits it was for what I believe PhD Engineering, 2010 gyroscopes to provide a 3D-navigation some major tech companies — but “ in, whether that’s Graduate Certificate in Research “ 12 hard to take. “When you say something tool. It’s location and motion mapping until there’s a deal in place for his 13 CURRENT POSITION pointing out an Commercialisation, 2008 that’s important and heartfelt, you want editorial decision without the need for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth game-changing location platform, Entertainment reporter on Nine Bachelor of Engineering Network’s Today show people to really hear you. That was the that goes against my or GPS. he’s keeping that information close values or saying to a (Electrical), 2003 difficult part: realising that you don’t have colleague, “Actually, Upon receiving his PhD, Donikian to his chest. ROLE MODELS SPRING 2019 a lot of control over the narrative once it’s when you say that, it CURRENT POSITION took his life-saving tech to SPRING 2019 Journalist Stan Grant, Senator makes me feel really Founder and CEO, Navisens Malarndirri McCarthy, AFL out there, in the world.” uncomfortable.” It Silicon Valley. General Manager of Inclusion Still, she’s embraced the chance to takes a lot — I have ROLE MODELS and Social Policy Tanya Hosch, speak to a mass audience, even if that to rally to do it — “I owe a lot to my parents, because I know it’s and writer Aunty Jackie Huggins. especially my mum. She’s like audience is vastly different to those who sometimes difficult my invisible co-founder.” SECRET SKILL tuned in to Triple J, NITV, SBS and the ABC, for people to hear. Q & A “I can eat a meat pie with one where she previously held roles as a news How do you deal SECRET SKILL hand without spilling any. It presenter and political correspondent. It’s with critics? “Grit and determination.” comes from years of going to Swans games.” part of what drew her to study journalism — I focus on the people the chance to be part of the conversation, who’ve helped me rather than reading about it. along the way. If What’s the hardest How do you What advice you get caught up part of running a deal with that do you have for But getting a seat at the table wasn’t thinking about how tech startup? uncertainty? engineering easy for Boney, the first in her family to go many people don’t students? want you to succeed to university. “If you haven’t seen it done It’s challenging day I just do it. I think or are standing in in, day out. Part people think about Really think before, you don’t think of university as your way, you fail to of the excitement things too much. about your being an institution for you,” she says. see that there are is that anything If I thought about undergraduate so many who’ll give can happen, but everything I’d have thesis. As A spokesperson for the GO you a chance or are that’s also part of to do once I moved an employer, Foundation, which creates opportunities barracking for you. the uncertainty. here to Silicon I’ve looked at One week, you Valley — hire thousands of for Indigenous youth through education, might be doing engineers, raise CVs and seeing Boney encourages others to follow her something with money, incorporate what a graduate lead. “Once Indigenous kids get through the most valuable a company and find did for their companies in the my first customers thesis tells you post-secondary education, we actually do world; another — then I never a lot about what better,” she says. “But we need to be able week, you might be would have gotten they’re interested struggling to get started. in, and whether to imagine it.” customers. they pushed themselves.

“ 14 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 money.” particularly around very good“I’m a negotiator, SECRET SKILL satellite manager for Australia’s FedSat Roger Franzen, engineering ROLE MODEL Space Agency ExecutiveDirector, Australian CURRENT POSITION Engineering Practice, 2008 Diploma inProfessional Environmental), 2008 Bachelor of Engineering(Civil and UTS DEGREES AWARD ALUMNI YOUNG DAILEY DAILEY ANNTONETTE

related dates backyears, toherteen helping farmers dobetter cropping.” banking tomonitoringwater flow and job. It’sessential from toeverything people howspace applies totheir says. “Iguarantee that Icould tellmost almost every partof ourlives,” she space isworth investing in. convince the Australian publicthat launching pads. rockets takingoff from Australian commercial sectortoget Australian time, she planstopartnerwiththe Australia’s first missioncontrol. In discovery centre in Adelaide, plus the constructionof ahands-onspace yearsfor the ahead. First up, there’s space industry. And shehasbigplans agency, it’sherjob togrow thelocal the AustralianSpace Agency.of jobs intheworld: Executive Director she considers tobeoneof thebest At 36, Anntonette Dailey haswhat Making space Dailey’s love of all things space- “People don’trealise that itaffects But oneof herchief goals isto As head of therecently formed dinner table. careers around the talking aboutSTEM get mumsanddads personal goal isto early enough.My get thoseskills school, kids don’t all the way through longer compulsory and science are no Because maths going backwards. worried we’re Actually, I’m that front? seeing changes on careers. Areyou to promote STEM You’ve worked hard you specialise. the board before experience across of lots Get graduates? engineering youdo have for What advice leadership at thetime.” just couldn’t seemyself reflected inthe create acareer path: itwasbecauseI 30, Irealised why I’dbeenstruggling to of 45,” shesays. “WhenIwasabout everyone there wasamanover theage space industry board meeting and from theearly days of hercareer. 50 percentfemale —adrastic change fact heragency’s leadership team is in thespace sector. She’sproud of the Dailey wants more womentojoin her recoveryeffort. to assistingwiththeCyclone Yasi running awild dogabatement program environmental engineeringskills, from up policy roles that utilisedher Thomas AO.Dr Andy engineer and idolised Australian astronaut and when sheattended space camps Q & A Q “I remember going tomy first Now that shehasherdream job, As agraduate, Dailey took now. both worlds right I’ve got thebest of I actually feel like best outof them. not going toget the ones, thenwe’re seeing theirloved If ourpeople aren’t have families, too. cool jobs, butwe that weall have focused onthefact Agency, we’revery Australian Space life balance. At the Finding that work/ career? challengesyour of of the biggest What’s beenone

was at UTS.” punk bandcalled Frictionwhile I “I usedtoplayviolin inanall-girl SECRET SKILL Smith.” Jan Chapman,andeditorLee producers DougMitchell and George Miller and Jane Campion, and ’90s, including directors “People Iworked with inthe’80s ROLE MODELS Commission CEO, New Zealand Film CURRENT POSITION Studies), 1981 (Film Production andFilm Bachelor of Communication UTS DEGREE SCIENCES AWARD SCIENCES SOCIAL AND ARTS SHEEHAN ANNABELLE for whom itreally matters.” filmmakers, andpartnerwiththepeople have toensure things happen,”shesays. my communications degree, butwealso interested inprocesses, that goes back to fast-paced world of atalent agency. “I’m — aproduct, shesays, of adecade inthe stories onthebigscreen. boost gender equality andget more M year,Over thenext she’sdetermined to of the New Zealand FilmCommission. Sheehan tookonhercurrent role: CEO the South Australian FilmCorporation, things Istillthinkabouttoday.” feminism andcommunications theory— strong onanalysing social structures, from abig,broad perspective. Itwas “UTS taughtmetolook at theindustry them,” shesays of herdiverse career. about makingfilms, butinthinkingabout Mendelsohn asCEO of RGM Artist Group. representing Cate Blanchett andBen once more, thistimeasatalent agent, School. Thenshereinvented herself the Australian FilmTelevision andRadio roles, serving asadepartment head at The Piano. Next,shetookupacademic films such asMadMax2, went intopost-production, workingon career,” shelaughs. the best wayyou canprepare for afilm Astaire, CaryGrant andShirley Temple. golden age, featuring thelikes of Fred 1970s —mostly relics from Hollywood’s gems free-to-air TVhad tooffer inthe Sheehan wasraised onwhatever A filmbufffrom anearly age, Annabelle Calling shots the “We have tospendmoney, encourage Sheehan isknownfor herpragmatism In 2018,afterserving asCEO of “My interest infilmwasnever just After graduating from UTS, Sheehan “I usedtosay youth amisspent is and Dead Calmand ā ori ori very different films! Hotel Mumbai—two Come toDaddy and been watching lately? And what haveyou carefully. we have totread maintaining respect, impact, while to influence and acceptable behaviour; very narrow bandof that womenhave a leader, I’ve noticed as women.Buta male mentors, aswell I’ve had somegreat male-dominated field? operate insuch a What’s itlike to of that. privileged tobepart you feel really having great success, and whenthey’re directors andactors, wonderful writers, worked withsome was fantastic. I Being atalent agent career? yourhighlight of What’s beena Q & A Q

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“ 16 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 the normal world.” But Idoneedthat: itreturns meto need tomake athree-hour curry.’ enormous day atyou work, don’t will say tome, ‘You’ve had an Switching off. “Myhusband SECRET SKILL incredibly inspiring.” the rights of others. To me, that’s comes here every day tofightfor “The team at RACS. Everyone ROLE MODELS and CaseworkService (RACS) Principal Solicitor, Refugee Advice CURRENT POSITION Bachelor of Laws, 2011 UTS DEGREE LAW AWARD LAW DALE SARAH

protectionin Australia. to starttheprocess of applying for were released intothecommunity end, theteensonChristmasIsland representing juvenile offenders. Inthe cases, having spent hergraduateyears yearsthe barjusttwo earlier. 27-year-old, who’dbeenadmitted to Nations —abold move by thethen made acomplaint totheUnited Advice andCaseworkService (RACS), decided there had tobeanalternative.” there wasnothing wecould do, butwe senior lawyers andseniorcounselthat Nauru,” shesays. “We were told by very be theday they’d betransferred to every morning,dreading that thiswould seekers onChristmasIslandin2014. unaccompanied teenage asylum the situation facing more than20 solicitor Sarah Dale describes biggest achievement of her career, Asked what sheconsiders the Freedom fighter we’re entitled to. have access towhat to make sure weall mechanism, there it’s aprotection of people’s lives: an integral part the lawissuch But Ilove that of jurisprudence. or gets akick out who loves contracts I’m not aperson you tolaw? What drew Q & A Q But Dale wasno stranger totough Dale’s organisation, Refugee “For 18months, they’d wake up profession. to beahealthier then we’re going ourselves abreak, can dotogive small things we start recognising yet. If wecanall but we’re not there health andburnout addressing mental is getting better at legal community of the job. The an importantpart switch off issuch Being able to graduates? you have for law What advice do the deadline.” people needinghelp, only 77missed fact there were close to 28,000 she says. “Remarkably, despite the we hadvolunteers by thehundreds,” many of Sydney’s top-tier lawfirms; legal team. was charged withcoordinating the rewarding five monthsfor Dale, who thousands. Itwasanintensebut at RACS already had awaitlistinthe invited toapply, andthesmall team visa application. had justfive monthsleft tolodge a had arrived by boat after August 2012 announced that asylum seekers who Dale points to2017,whenitwas legal advocacy,” says Dale. but Ithinkitwasamixof publicand with don’thave. people Iwork am andwhat the of howlucky I also areminder blessing, butit’s is certainly a to go hometo incredible family hard. Having an veryIt canbe yourof work? emotional impact handle the youHow do “We had torally together with Many had only recently been As for herbiggest challenge, “We’ll never knowexactly why,

get theone‘yes’ Ineed.” “Stubbornness. I’llkeep askinguntilI SECRET SKILL founder of CampQuality. OzHarvest, and Vera Entwistle, Ronni Kahn, CEO andfounder of ROLE MODELS CEO, Beehive Industries CURRENT POSITION Master of Business (Marketing), 2006 UTS DEGREE COMMUNITY AWARDCOMMUNITY LONERGAN BRENDAN not mepersonally. timing orthefit; the proposal, the knocking back back. They’re just they’re knocking that it’snot me Years ago Ilearned with that? youHow do deal ‘no’ every day. You hear theword goals: two athad jobBeehive, he manufacturer. When hetookthe Australia’s biggest musicmerchandise as aco-ownerof what became a skillhehonedover twodecades a hellof alot of meetings,” helaughs. of phone calls, alot of negotiation and lessons. including cookingclasses andEnglish and supportprograms for members, factory floor fundmeals, activities unemployed. Jobs ontheorganisation’s living withdisability, andthelong-term ‘Beehivers’ whoinclude seniors, those and thenot-for-profit supports 250 annual turnover isup360percent survive moreyear. thana organisation would belucky to and theaccountants told himthe enterprise wasbleeding cash were fairly dire: thesocial and distributionservices, things specialises inpackaging, assembly a ‘business withpurpose’that the reins at Beehive Industries, When Brendan Lonergan took Hive mind Q & A Q Lonergan isanatural salesman, So howdid Lonergan doit?“Alot That wasfiveyears ago. Today,

somewhere. to comefrom That money has and electricity. bills for insurance and pay massive feed everybody staff theplace, them: wehave to day tosupport costs alot each for help. And it are comingto us rosy, more people economy isnot Because the faced at Beehive? challenge you’ve the biggest What’s been

contestant Kumar Pereira. currently runswithformer MasterChef stream cookingclasses for seniors he online programs, such asthelive- and alleviate social isolation withmore to expandtheorganisation’s reach months. Not only that, Lonergan hopes entirely self-fundedwithinthenext12 other bigfirmsonboard. which continues today, helpedhimget integrity,” hesays. That relationship, we maintained100percentdata contract toputtogether SIMcard kits. and, aftermuch convincing, landeda and software. Heapproached Telstra complex jobs requiring computers make adecentreturn.” doing below-valueyou’ll work, never taking uptoomuch production time money at all,” hesays.you’re “Andif got todoaheck of alot tomake any very low,work is which meansyou’ve assembly tasks. letters, plusbasicpackaging and Beehive involved folding andsending At that point, mostof theworkdoneat bigger clients andbetter training. you doing it?” ability, why aren’t you’veand got the can helpsomeone to people,you “If Because Ican.say the social sector? business world for you switch the What made All going well,Beehive willbe “It’s quitetechnical workbut So Lonergan set hissights on more “The piece rate for that kindof

“ 17 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 Delivering safer beginnings Breaking borders Q & A

Based in Juba, the capital of South In return, students agreed to go back to She’s the creative genius behind the Sudan, midwife and nurse Annette their home town to work. It was a completely dumpling emoji and Twitter’s infamous Bennett has a somewhat restricted life: new approach in a country where, at the Fail Whale, but there’s much more to she and her husband live in a compound, time, 99 per cent of midwifery students were Yiying Lu’s story. What are you most proud of in your they have an 8pm curfew and Bennett males from urban areas. Raised in Shanghai, Lu came to career? isn’t allowed to drive. “The government would send these Australia to study design and is now Having spent 20 years in Africa, she’s midwives to a remote area, one at a time, working with tech startups in Silicon That there’s a community used to safety precautions, but she admits with a population of up to 200,000 to care Valley. An ‘artrepreneur’, she’s on a out there that her present role is the most challenging yet. for,” says Bennett. “They didn’t speak the mission to bridge cultural divides, from art recognises what I do as being ANNETTE Bennett has been upskilling young local language and they weren’t accepted YIYING LU to tech and East to West. meaningful, adding BENNETT midwives and onboarding established by the community. Any pregnant women who Between branding work and value to people’s professionals at a bare-bones hospital in did come to the health centre usually did so DESIGN, exhibitions, Lu gives public addresses and lives and allowing others to co-create. HEALTH AWARD the country’s remote north-east, a region because they were at death’s door.” ARCHITECTURE runs online classes, teaching creatives prone to instability. While she speaks some As a result, many midwives would leave AND BUILDING how to design for a global audience. She’s Is there a moment that changed your Arabic (a legacy of the decade she spent in before the end of their contract. AWARD also working on a picture book, The Very career? Egypt, running a clinic for refugees), there Today, the Hamlin College of Midwives Hungry Red Panda. When I was UTS DEGREE are several more languages to contend with continues to turn out highly skilled “People say to me, ‘I’ve finished Master of Midwifery (Research), studying, I had a in South Sudan, plus a patriarchal society professionals. The college does not take in school, how do I get a job?’” she says. job at a dumpling UTS TOWER UTS 2015 UTS DEGREE TOWER UTS resistant to change. Not to mention the threat huge cohorts and the number of graduates “When I look back, I realise I never actually restaurant and it Bachelor of Design (Visual taught me how CURRENT POSITION of Ebola, which is endemic in neighbouring is modest, but these midwives are leaders Communication), 2008 found a job.” hard some people Maternal health adviser, Democratic Republic of the Congo. in their profession. Some have gone on to Lu may not have sent out CVs, but work. There was scholarship coordinator and “ this old lady who’d “ In many ways, Bennett is starting all over complete a master’s degree or work as CURRENT ROLE she’s incredibly good at leveraging 18 Ebola preparedness trainer, Artrepreneur make shrimp 19 Samaritan’s Purse again in South Sudan after making significant mentors and academics. social media and monetising her work. rolls all day. Who knows, if she had gains for midwives, and the mothers and Others have transformed healthcare for ROLE MODEL By the second year of her degree, she ROLE MODEL the opportunity newborns in their care, in Ethiopia. mothers and newborns in their home towns. Professor Louise McWhinnie, was already licensing her designs to “My mother. She had to and education, she SPRING 2019 Dean of UTS’s Faculty of might be a better SPRING 2019 leave school at 15 but went In 2006, as the founding Dean of the In Burrakat in Ethiopia’s remote Amhara companies such as the Sea Life Sydney Transdisciplinary Innovation. designer than I on to complete a Master of Hamlin College of Midwives, she established region, for example, the health centre used “When I met her, I saw a global Aquarium and one of the world’s biggest am. I realised that Linguistics. She and my father Ethiopia’s first fully accredited, direct-entry to deliver one or two babies a month, says soul. We instantly bonded.” games corporations. someone else is sponsored and supported Bachelor of Midwifery course. Awarding Bennett, and survival rates were dismal. When Disney opened a resort in always sacrificing dozens of refugee families from SECRET SKILL their potential to scholarships to young women in rural areas, “Within seven years, our midwives were Shanghai in 2016, they hired Lu to localise Vietnam during my teen years.” “I’m very entrepreneurial.” let you do your she provided hands-on training with plenty managing around 900 births a year, with not their campaign material. Her take on thing, so there’s no reason why you SECRET SKILL of post-graduation support. one maternal mortality.” Mickey, while undeniably Disney, is in “I spent a year studying Amharic, shouldn’t work hard. the national language of the style of a Chinese paper-cut figure, Ethiopia.” complete with traditional motifs. What advice do “I wanted to do the seemingly you have for design impossible: unify something that’s so graduates? Was there a moment in your career global, but also local. I wanted to find Travel. Go to Japan, that changed everything? that common voice while keeping what is Zimbabwe, China Q & A — anywhere you unique about the location,” she says. What advice do you Early on in my time in What’s one thing don’t speak the have for graduates Ethiopia, I met a young you’re especially From logos to wall stickers, Lu’s language. You’ll who want to graduate at a remote proud of? quirky creations speak to people all over feel extremely practise abroad? health centre. She was uncomfortable, the only midwife there, My daughter, the world. This, she says, is the beauty of you’ll be forced to If you’ve never and she was burnt out, Alleytia. She being a designer rather than an artist. be silent and listen, and you’ll train lived in a rural depressed and knew her graduated from “I create for communication’s sake,” area, go and work skills were inadequate. UTS, worked in the your intuition. in remote Australia She said to me, “I didn’t Northern Territory as she says. “It’s about understanding what and get a few years even complete a birth an emergency nurse the audience wants and what the client of experience on my own before I and is now nursing under your belt. graduated.” That was a in South Sudan. wants. I’m a vessel, helping these two Make sure you’re game-changer for me. It She’s doing it hard things connect. In a lot of art and design, really skilled and solidified in my mind that in a very remote, the voice overshadows the subject matter employable — we I have a duty of care to my resource-poor area. don’t want second- graduates and the women I tell her she’s gone — that’s not communication.” best here. in their care. next-level.

“ 20 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 leader.” “I’m ahands-dirtykindof SECRET SKILL online design platform Canva Melanie Perkins, founder of ROLE MODEL CEO, Fishburners PREVIOUS ROLE Marketing), 2014 (Management Consulting and Bachelor of Business UTS DEGREE SCHOOL AWARDSCHOOL BUSINESS UTS SHELLEY PANDORA not done with startups just yet.not done withstartupsjust can’t say toomuch —only that she’s achieve.” achieved all thethings I’dwantedto year. When that timewasup, Ihad very clear that Iwould beCEO for one I’ve ever done,” shesays. “ButIwas the organisation for New York. another leap intotheunknown,leaving a project, wehad data toback itup.” every dollarand every hourwespenton “It got toapoint thatmaking. for almost to beaculture of data-driven decision considers herlegacy at Fishburners herself asriskaverse. Somuch so, she leap of faith for Shelley, whodescribes she’d settle for proving them wrong. inappropriate behaviour; other times, On occasion,shewould call out — numerous times,” shesays. often overlooked. companies, the28-year-old CEO was growth duringher tenure. Shanghai, recorded unprecedented entrepreneurs inSydney, Brisbaneand co-working spaces andevents for million inrevenue. 2500 jobs andgenerating over $110 businesses, creating more than growth of more than2000tech helped thenot-for-profit foster the company CEO. Inthat time, she at startuphubFishburners to went from beingtheoffice manager years,In justeight Pandora Shelley Growth mindset So what’s next? At thisstage, she “Honestly, itwasthehardest thing Earlieryear, this Shelley took Entering thestartupworld wasa “I got asked totake notes yet,And at meetings withexternal The organisation, which runs idea. first idea istheright very rareIt’s that the five, six-plus ideas. who’ve triedfour, come from people at Fishburners have The best startups isn’t afraid of failing. A good entrepreneur know? founder should every startup What’s something work for acompany. skills whowantto entrepreneurial — people with ‘intrapreneurs’ are looking for more companies fast. More and and moving up withsolutions adaptable, coming being innovative, anywhere else, like you won’tpick up You’ll get skills Work for astartup. graduates? have for business What adviceyou do moved on. would bethetimeI I always said that pace Ioncewas. growing at thesame I felt like Iwasn’t Fishburners? it wastimetoleave How didyou know Q & A Q everything else.everything job,your life and be happyyour in for,you’ll always youonly thing look love.” Ifthat’s the youdo thethings I tellpeople, “Only career advice? What’syour best about time, things justhappen.” watch.you When don’tworry Fitting itall in.“Idon’twear a SECRET SKILL about helping others.” through, herwhole outlook was with all thechallenges shewent immigrant bornin1932.Even She wasaPolish/American “My mother, Florence White. ROLE MODEL Resources, Paramount Pictures Senior Vice-President of Human CURRENT POSITION Education), 1996 Master of Education (Adult UTS DEGREE ALUMNI AWARD ALUMNI INTERNATIONAL JIM WHITE JIM Q & A Q their lives. world, theirjob and thinking aboutthe myopic intheir is. People canbe diverse theworld and big, amazing centric justhow people who are US- communicate with Being able to your career? you’ve faced in biggest challenges What’s oneof the

opportunity tofurtherhiseducation at UTS. in Australia for 12months, White tookthe really understoodvideo stores,” hesays. one of thefew people ontheplanet who degree inNebraska inthe1980s. store while completing hisundergraduate behind the counter atvideo a ‘mom andpop’ past for theseniorexecutive, who’dworked with thechain’s local rollout. been spendingtimein Australia, assisting of HumanResources at Blockbuster. He’d unique, specialised experience.” who’ve doneit,which means Ihave very inclusion, andthere aren’t many Americans particularly intermsof diversity and UTS education hasanamazing program, everybody elsegoes to. Butthefact is Cambridge orgone toOxford; schools that here.” get many American students here.” don’t mean tooffend you, butwedon’t who said tohim,“Why areyou here? I Jim White waspulled aside by theDean, at UTS, HRexecutive andsocial advocate In 1994,afterattending hisfirst lecture scenes the Behind After agreeing toworkfor Blockbuster “I didn’t realise itat thetime, butIwas In someways, thiswasareturn tothe At thetime, White was Vice-President He explains:“Icould have applied for White’s reply? “That’s exactly why I’m the future. valuablewill be in learning today how what we’re and wenever know in life isimportant, wedoEverything atvideo the store. skills I’dobtained potential of the understand the I didn’t fully youryounger self? wouldyou give what advice Looking back,

isn’t smart.” way we’re currently spendingthat money taxpayers, wepay for thisanyway —andthe business leaders tounderstand that, as part isn’timportant,butwe’re getting he says. “We’re not saying thehumanitarian businesses from amonetary perspective,” poverty, hasbeenthemosteffective. the taskforce, withits unique take on undertakes pro bonoHRwork,buthesays of LAresidents.thousands Over thepastdecade, it’shelpedhouse sectors tocomeupwithhousingsolutions. Force, agroup that worksvarious with industry ontheBusiness Leaders Task the street.” there were roughly 2000people sleeping on I wentoutintheevening for thefirst time, an area of extreme poverty,” hesays. “When mission tocombat homelessness. to Los Angeles and,inturn,set himona executives make operational decisions. as abusiness counsellor, helping senior sourcing executive talent, butalso acts way” —makes himaunique hire. business —“Ievolved my HRskillsalong the Paramount Pictures, where abackground in Vice-President of HumanResources at the entertainmentindustry. Today, he’s “We look at howhomelessness impacts White sits onseveral boards and Today, herepresents theentertainment “I actually endedupliving inSkid Row, The role at Paramount brought him White assists withrestructures and yearsSome 35 later, White isstillin

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“ 22 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 complemented withanarray of psychology andleadership, renowned expertinorganisational Robert (Bob) Wood, a world- Director, DistinguishedProfessor individuals andorganisations. customised programs tofuture-proof strengths andgaps. Itthendelivers against job requirements toidentify using AI-driven analysis tomapthese existing capabilities of staff, and with businesses toidentify the addressing thisneedby working focused. passion-driven, flexible andfuture- of learning that ispersonalised, workplace demands anewkind The rapidly changing global The UTS Futures Academy future job markets. remain appealing inpresent and to ensure their knowledge andskills address risk.Employees willneed skills, andbeable toidentify and digital literacy andproblem-solving adaptability andcreativity, improve to reskill orupskilltoenhance Businesses willneedtheirpeople knowledge up-to-date andrelevant. opportunity —istokeep skillsand individuals, thechallenge —andthe to reshape thenature of work. intelligence andautomation continue skills-intensive by 2030,asartificial two outof three jobs willbesoft Deloitte Australia hasreported that workers andemployers stay ahead. been specifically designed tohelp The newUTS Futures Academy has outdated faster thanever before. and employee skillsare becoming nature of workare evolving rapidly, The business landscapeandthe Ahead of game the The Academy isled by Founding The UTS Futures Academy is For enterprises, andfor contributions.” organisations tomaximisetheir pathways for themselves andshape about helping people create new organisations, butthefuture willbe been onpreparing people tofitinto commented, “Thefocus hasalways demands of theirworkevolve. be able to change andadapt asthe experience means employees will a bespoke andongoing educational partners. learning providers andcorporate a worldwide network of leading can bestudiedat UTS, orthrough ecosystem means these courses management. history, communications, orchange add courses onteam leadership, diploma ormasters, they could these ‘stackable’ courses intoa Law. Ifthey wantedtobundle law courses from theFaculty of AI; ormanagement and AI-related philosophy course ontheethics of from theFaculty of Engineering; a an onlinecourse in AI applications Futures Academy, they could do completing askillsauditwiththe wants tolearn more about AI. After Imagine acareer accountant who action Personalised learning in transdisciplinary innovation. health, IT, law, science and engineering, entrepreneurship, communications, education, science, architecture, business, UTS experts anddata inanalytics UTSFuturesAcademy.com.au or [email protected] or master classes, please contact +61295143504 tailored courses, publictalks, tastercourses and For more information about theUTS Futures Academy, As oneFutures Academy client Providing thefreedom tocreate The global Futures Academy include amixof critical thinking aspirations. The program will with theircareer andeducation university experiencealigned Indigenous students abespoke residential program, giving the Program willconsist of afive-day Architecture andBuilding. Engineering andIT, andDesign, in theUTS Faculties of Health, been delivered withgreat success available tothem. of thehighereducation opportunities options, andgrow theirunderstanding their knowledge of professional experience university life, broaden from Years 9to11thechance to Indigenous highschool students Program inSeptember 2019. 2019 Galuwa Business andLaw of philanthropists, willlaunch the and Law, withthegenerous support students todo. Torres Strait Islanderhighschool what UTS wants Aboriginal and language andthat’s exactly Galuwa means ‘toclimb’ inGadigal heights Program scales new Innovative Galuwa The Galuwa Business andLaw The Galuwa Program hasalready The program willoffer over 30 The UTS Faculties of Business for education. horizons andraise theiraspirations commercial workplaces, expandtheir industry partners, experience engage inuniversity life, meet thatyoung Indigenous people can Indigenous Strategy, ensuring component of theoverarching UTS Dinner for thestudents. culminate inaProgram Graduation and successful professionals. Itwill and mentoringfrom inspirational cultural activities; andpresentations and communications workshops; or [email protected] Indigenous Education andResearch on1800064312 the program, contact the Jumbunna Institutefor To learn moreyou about Galuwa andhow cansupport university life.” experience chance to Years 9to11the students from high school 30 Indigenous will offer over “The program Galuwa isanintegral

“ 23 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 But that didn’t mean I was going to play hardball and go after new funding sources with no thought to my values or the cost to others. It meant finding new ways to safeguard SSI’s funding that would also increase our social impact and strengthen our sector. One way we did this was by forming consortiums with other community organisations and tendering for work. We engaged in non- predatory growth, whereby we grew the pie of available funding for our peers, as well as ourselves. We also established income- The power of generating social enterprises such as Humble Creatives, which sells candles and home crafts while offering work values-driven experience opportunities to people experiencing unemployment. Determined Before embarking on that growth leadership program, SSI was a Sydney-based organisation with fewer than 70 staff UTS TOWER UTS to learn TOWER UTS and revenue of $9.4 million. Today, our Violet Roumeliotis is the CEO to carve out a life here for themselves. operations span the entire east coast of of community organisation and My parents’ experience instilled Australia. We have a workforce of 1000 Mujibur Rahman’s dreams of I couldn’t do my first semester of uni medicine. In Sydney, I went to

“ “ 24 social business Settlement in me a deep belief that every person and revenue of $115 million. becoming a doctor were shattered and my father couldn’t go to his shop. intensive English classes for six 25 Services International (SSI), a should have the right to achieve their I share this example with you when he and his family were forced I had to stay up late at night just to months and then into Year 11 and my Telstra Australia Business Woman full potential — to live the life they today to demonstrate that values- to flee from conflict in Myanmar. guard my house. That’s when my dad HSC. In the end, I got into both UTS of the Year and a UTS alumna. choose and to be treated fairly and driven leadership can go hand in hand But today, Rahman is realising his decided to come here. and the University of Sydney with a

SPRING 2019 Earlier this year, she delivered an with dignity. with a commercial, growth-oriented dreams after becoming the first UTS I felt devastated. I knew I could full scholarship. I was so happy! SPRING 2019 inspiring speech to graduating My career to date has taught business mindset. Humanitarian Scholarship recipient achieve my goal of becoming a I chose nursing at UTS because students on the importance of me that it is imperative for leaders to It’s simply not true that you to graduate. This is his story. doctor, but I couldn’t stay because of their support. I’ve used counselling, empathy and compassion in maintain strong values and keep them have to compromise your values to it wasn’t safe. It was a really sad English language support programs, business. This is an edited version at the heart of their decision making. succeed as a business leader. Did moment for me. peer coaching and the careers of her speech. In 2012, when I joined SSI, we had you know that in 2006 an economist We fled to the coast and someone service. From my second year, I was one main source of funding and 68 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Before all the violence, Myanmar told us to get in this boat. It was doing a nursing placement and had no staff members. I realised that without Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi was a peaceful country. We could really risky. I spent about four days in time to work. So the financial support diversification, we wouldn’t have a banker and economist, realised go to school. We could have fun with the ocean and I thought I would die from UTS was especially important. I Whether you’re at the beginning of future; we simply weren’t sustainable. the role microfinancing could play our friends. It was back then that I because I didn’t eat or drink anything. couldn’t have survived without it. your career, or starting a new phase in in helping families, and ultimately decided I wanted to be a doctor. There were big waves and the boat In 2018, I graduated with a it, this is a time to consider what you whole communities, break the cycle The violence just came up from was moving a lot. We also had a hole in Bachelor of Nursing. Now I’m looking believe in. of poverty. nowhere. An extremist group started the boat, so the water started to come for a job as a registered nurse and For me, one of my core values is This example highlights the power attacking mosques and threatening in. It was like a nightmare. studying for the entrance exam social justice. This was borne from each of us has. Your actions have a Muslim students. One day I couldn’t go When we arrived at Christmas for medicine. It will be hard to get watching my parents arrive in a new ripple effect and you can create real to uni because they said, “If you go on Island I thanked God I’m alive! I in because I’m on a Temporary country from post-World War II Greece change just by incorporating your that day we will kill you.” promised my dad and mum that I Protection Visa but I haven’t given up and try to rebuild their lives. values into your daily work life. My two younger brothers and big would achieve my goal and make hope. I’ve come so far already and At that time, Australia did not Social impact is our shared right sister were also terrified. My brothers them proud. I know if I keep trying my best, I will have organisations like SSI to help — and responsibility. Whether you’re in were just nine and 13. My sister stayed But my dad had a heart attack and keep the promise I made to my father. newcomers. There was no support to government, civil society or business, at home because she wears a burqa passed away hours after we arrived. learn English, to connect to the wider we all have a role to play. It is your and they told us, “If anyone wears a Five weeks later, my family arrived in Australian community, to pursue study right and privilege to use your beliefs, burqa, or a Muslim hat, we will throw Sydney with Dad’s body to bury. or employment goals. Nonetheless, my principles and values to carve out the acid at them.” I was determined to keep Learn more about the Humanitarian Scholarship and other ways UTS supports students like Mujibur at parents rose above those challenges legacy you wish to leave in this world. Everyone was scared to go out. my promise to my father to study uts.edu.au/humanitarian-access

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“ 27 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 of chemotherapy. treat andminimisingtheeffects making thedisease easier to cells outof aperson’s blood, system that canfiltercancer is workingonacancerdialysis how canceristreated. Warkiani technology could also transform diagnoses of cancer. lead tomore affordable early the world, the biochip could many research centres around blood cells. Already inuse cancerous cellsfrom normal biochip that canseparate has developed adiagnostic cell separation, Majid Warkiani Through hisinnovative workinto technology isjust around corner. the Professor Majid Warkiani, thisgame-changing like science fiction, butthanks to UTS Associate your chances of beating disease. the Itmay sound could clean your blood of cancerous cells, improving test using abiochip. Orifthere was amachine that inyourdiagnosed doctor’s office withaquick blood Imagine ifcardiovascular disease could be cellThe separator The same cell sorting cellsorting The same and cellseparation. for rapid fluid mixing microfluidic chips 3D-printed

Majid Warkiani diseases.” cancer orother are diagnosed with life of people who It canchange the patient-oriented. is useful and and thetechnology real-world problems “We are workingon and team toUTS’s new School of Warkiani moved hisresearch the University of NewSouth Wales, in mid-2017, afterabrief stintat passion for themedical realm. And cells incancerresearch. micro-filtration techniques tosort biologists andclinicians, applying his US, where heworked closely with Institute of Technology (MIT)in the Warkiani moved totheMassachusetts things.” applicationyou canfindfor these micro-filtration. Irealised howmuch started toget exposedtotheworld of identify bacteria inwater andI research. quickly thewider saw potential of his could improve water technology and he explored hownanotechnology As adoctoral studentinSingapore, from university inhishomeof Iran. both languages sincegraduating of engineers.” of clinicians aswellthelanguage really like. Iunderstand thelanguage engineering andmedicine, which I who originally wantedtobeadoctor. natural fitfor amechanical engineer This workreinforced Warkiani’s After completing hisPhD, “We were creating toolsto Warkiani hasbeenlearning “I’m somewhere inthemiddle of Warkiani says hisresearch isa research intheFaculty of Science, cell separation technique toalgal cancer treatment. He’sbrought his exciting possibilities well beyond test drugs onanimals. that willoneday eliminate theneed to tumour models(‘tumour-on-a-chip’) 35 inthe Asia-Pacific in2016. one of theirTop 10Innovators under MIT Technology Review namehimas the cancerdialysis system that saw alongside anumberof teams torefine in from different perspectives.” biologists talk toeach other andchip problems ifscientists, engineers and skills cansolve. We willonly tackle the the typeof problems that oneset of cardiovascular disease; these are not improving howweprevent diseases. collaborative approach iskey to across there andcollaborate.” Faculty of Science, sowecanjump the biologists andscientists inthe necessary tools, andweare close to world-class laboratory withall the which wasgreat. Sonowwehave a with all theequipmentthat Ineed, to build thelaboratory that Iwant Biomedical Engineering. But Warkiani’s research has He’s also developing microscale At UTS, Warkiani isworking “The bigproblems like cancer, like Warkiani believes this “UTS gave methefreedom with cancerorother diseases.” the life of people whoare diagnosed and patient-oriented. Itcan change problems andthe technology isuseful powerful difference for people. knowing that hisworkwillmake a Warkiani says heremains driven everyday medical treatments, but his research canbetranslated into pathogensyeast intheir tanks. an in-linesystem that separates out used Warkiani’s technology tocreate taste of its beer. Thebrewery has Coopers improve thequality and and histeam are even helping them.” requires amechanism toseparate related abnormalities. Thenitjust infection,viral a infection orcell- to thecells—eitherabacterial because all diseases comeback company inSydney. with Regeneus Ltd, alocal biotech therapeutic potential incollaboration cells tobetter understand their disorders. He’salso separating stem pre-natal screening for genetic in Adelaide tousethesystem in and iscollaborating withpeers “We are workingonreal-world There isstillaway to go before In anovel partnership, Warkiani “There are somany opportunities,

“ 29 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 research that isshaping everything to keep upthegroundbreaking and materials, allowing thecentre The Bulgin Fund provides for staff from theestate of Peter John Bulgin. welcome boost,thanks toabequest opened in2004. forensic science research sinceit which hasbeen at theforefront of UTS’s Centre for Forensic Science, exciting advances beingexplored at fingerprints at time. thesame a method todetect both DNA and from aDNAsample. Orifthere was characteristics could beconstructed Imagine ifaperson’s facial a bigger impact for society. Centre for Forensic Science make Bulgin Fund ishelpingtheUTS preventing future crimes, the From solving cold cases to safer society gift ofThe a Its workisnowgetting a These are justsomeof the make iteasier toreconstruct events and surveillance footage. Traces clues such ascard transactions fingerprints andother identity their research into‘traces’: DNA, Professor Roux andhisteam pursue funding inforensic science”. “it’s difficulttoattract systemic vitalhas been for histeam because Claude Roux, said theBulgin Fund enforcement. from recovery disaster tolaw The extra fundingishelping Director of theCentre, Professor 9861 [email protected] please contact the Advancement team on+6129514 your willorother philanthropic opportunities at UTS, For aconfidential conversation aboutleaving agiftin Fund isabsolutely pivotal for UTS.” research inthefirst place. TheBulgin practical tutorials, oreven dothe have themeans toorganise realistic, courses tostudents. that also provides exceptional program intoaworld research leader undergraduate forensic science has seenthecentre grow from one from another location. whether abodyhasbeenmoved more accurate timeof death, and findings are helping todetermine a AFTER facility, andherbiomarker studies decompositionat theUTS taphonomist DrMaiken Ueland.She under theBulgin Fund isforensic been able toadvance herwork reduce labwork. fingermarks, which willmassively simultaneously detect DNAand their studyintomethods that And aPhDstudentcould complete techniques from nanoparticles. generation fingermark detection Dr SebastienMoret todevelop next- able tohire forensic science lecturer they look like. used togenerate apicture of what how aperson’s DNAsample canbe lab chemicals heneedstoexplore now hastheessential software and victims ormissingpersons. DrBarash that could helpidentify disaster Fellow DrMarkBarash inaproject supported Post-Doctoral Research ‘traditional’ street crime. cyberattacks toterrorist acts and concerns andcrime”, from malicious we could better prevent security the research areas informing “how cases. investigations andother criminal and identify suspects inmurder “Without funding,wewouldn’t Over a decade, Professor Roux Another researcher whohas Under thefund,centre was The Bulgin Fund hasalso Roux says thisisalso oneof

HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH BY SHERREN EVANS UTS giant from a Tall tales for ‘ugliest towerinSydney’, and declared by sometobeaneyesore. concrete’) instyle, thebuilding was French bétonbrut,meaning ‘raw unashamedly Brutalist (from the fan. Standing 120metres tall and October 1979, not everyone wasa the Tower officially opened on 15 yearsIt tookeight tobuild, butwhen celebrate its40thbirthday. icon isgetting ready to start. Now ourBrutalist Sydney from skyline the dominatedmyths and the divided opinion, inspired building? Tower The has unmissablethe Tower Did you have classes in There wasajoke that UTS stood the time. equipment housedintheTower at for thewall-mounted engineering high windowswere arequirement cityviews duringclass. Infact, the weren’t distracted by thepanoramic windows were designed sostudents One urbanmyth isthat its high-set inspired its fair share of stories. reimagined Building 2(UTS Central). a fewyears ago tomake way for a completed. Thehalf wasdemolished reasons, only one-and-a-half were cut back tothree, andfor financial the Broadway site. That number was been seven tower-like buildings on ahead, there would have actually claim it’sanivory one.” “We have atower, butnoonecould Chancellor GusGuthriedrily said, Sydney themiddle finger. another that thebuilding wasgiving Love itorhate it,theTower has If theoriginal planhad gone The university’s first Vice- 40 years? the UTS Tower have totellinthenext it begs thequestion: what stories will soul of ourreimagined campus. And imposing UTS Tower stillcarries the the newly-opened UTS Central. City CampusMasterPlan,including buildings have beenbuiltunderthe social media. Instagram-perfect blueskies on snow globes, asmillineryandagainst and hearts. Ithasbeencelebrated in Tower hascaptured imaginations perhaps becauseof it,over timethe pit unmarked onany plan. the UTS Central project did uncover a no evidence of this, excavations for the Tower’s basement. While there is nuclear fall-out bunker wasbuiltinto decades aftertheCold War isthat a But atyears 40 young, the In recentyears, four strikingnew Despite its singularity, or Another storythat lingers on

“ 31 TOWER UTS SPRING 2019 Scholarship funded by Salini the Australia Tomorrow’s Builders Australia’s infrastructure growth, yearsunder 30 of age.” 25,000 people wehave hired are last threeyears, 40percentof the visionterm for thecompany. Inthe is essential for creating along- construction sectors. leaders intheengineeringand importance of nurturingemerging Impreglio, isunequivocal aboutthe Tomorrow’s Builders Scholarship. with UTS through the Australia has formalised its partnership construction group Salini Impregilo Global engineeringand tomorrow Building for As partof astrategy tobolster “Investing toattractyoung talent Pietro Salini, CEO of Salini Metro Northwest, Salini Impregilo Airport Linkandpartof Sydney’s Snowy 2.0,Perth’s Forrestfield– Australian hydroelectric project presence withprojects such asthe generations. innovation, while investing infuture solutions that promote growth and committed tocreating sustainable buildings, Salini Impregilo isalso airports, motorways andindustrial hydroelectric plants, metro systems, infrastructure projects such as special interest inconstruction. Architecture andBuilding whohave a and ITtheFaculty of Design, from UTS’s Faculty of Engineering Impreglio willsupport students While expandingits Australian A global leader incomplex Australian cities.” of intelligent infrastructure for and education for thedevelopment with Salini Impregilo inresearch infrastructure development. research tofoster debate onpublic Impregilo willalso include events and the wider partnership withSalini Professor Elizabeth Mossop, says Design, Architecture andBuilding, The scholarship willrununtil2023. paid internship withSalini Impregilo. $10,000 andtheopportunitytodoa two UTSyear students a awarded will helptackle thisproblem, with Tomorrow’s Builders Scholarship skills shortage. The Australia education toaddress thenationwide for greater investment inSTEM growing urbanpopulations. that canserve Australia’s rapidly smarter, more adaptive infrastructure academics, thereport advocated for Salini Impregilo withinputfrom UTS Economist Intelligence Unit and Infrastructure’. Produced by the Cities: Thefuture of Australian launch of areport called ‘Flexible Impregilo andUTS co-hostedthe environment andsustainability.” a focus onnewtechnologies, the of Australia’s infrastructure with public debate around thefuture Pacific.Director Asia Assorati, Salini Impregilo Executive Engineering program,” says Marco with theuniversity’s Women in women intheengineeringsector encouraging theparticipation of scholarship program, while also students through along-term late 2018. entered intopartnership withUTS in “We arevery keen tocollaborate The Dean of UTS’s Faculty of It also highlightedtheneed In November 2018,Salini “We would also like topromote “We are keen tosupportUTS and Rowan Smith. Tech Gym’sThirunisha Thirumuragan for good Entrepreneurs make a huge difference for people like Innovation Competition. And it’sset to year’sand $12,000inthis IBISWorld 3P rehabilitation exercises. that helps stroke patients through their co-founded Tech Gym:arobotic arm student ThirunishaThirumuragan he after having astroke. Sowithfellow getting therehabilitation sheneeded Smith realised hisgrandmother wasn’t A fewyears ago, UTS studentRowan difference for society. on making apositive UTS Startups are focused diabetes sufferers, many to anonline service for rehabilitation company From arobotic

His invention wonhimfirst prize that curates andpersonalises support Hub — Australia’s first onlineplatform they graduated. the idea through UTS Startups after Eliza Marks, thencontinuedtodevelop from herdegree, Polina Pashkov and solution of herown.Sheandtwofriends UTS, Allen decided tocreate anonline Creative Intelligence andInnovation at awayyou as get older,” sheexplains. care asachild, that level of supportfalls range. While Ienjoyed comprehensive keepingyour blood sugar levels within comes tot1d.It’saconstant balance of as shegrew up. with thelack of supportfor theillness diabetes (t1d)asachild, butstruggled Allen. Shewasdiagnosed withtype1 on improving people’s lives isLucy development for Tech Gym. which willspeeduptheresearch and Smith says heisecstatic abouthiswin, and mechatronic engineering degree, says. which helpstheirmotivation,” Smith immersive environment for patients, music therapy tocreate afunand paperwork. We include games and process toreduce timespenton in aday andautomates thereporting stroke patients ahospital canserve in thefuture. his grandmother, andtheirtherapists, In mid-2018, they launched Stitch During asubject inherBachelor of “There’s nosuccess whenit Another UTS entrepreneur focused Nowyear inhisfinal of amechanical “Our device improves howmany Eliza Marks. Pashkov and Allen, Polina co-founders Lucy Stitch Hub startups.uts.edu.au ventures.student-founded For more information,visit UTS Startups isacommunitydedicated tosupporting to helpmore people andpets.” Sleepers andwanttogive usthemeans support of people whobelieve inRuff person whoaccepts ourhelpandthe driven by beingable tohelpothers. community, says Castellazzi she’s accommodation. approach homelessness andcrisis are pushingfor reforms inhowwe Tully Rosen andLindaCastellazzi friends, founders DrBronwen Dalton, to care for theirfour-legged best people whoare sleeping rough homeless people. As wellashelping not-for-profit pet washingservice for under-used baby equipment. and reduce wasteby renting outtheir to helpparents earn extra income Vanouhi created Nazarian, Kindershare world better. UTS Business alumna, way that UTS Startups are makingthe something for them.” they feel like someoneisfinally building Users and the t1d community tell us that choice inhowthey manage theirillness. products toclinicians, sopeople have a fromeverything supportgroups, to stop shopthat offers information on resources for people living witht1d. “What inspires meisthesmile of a Like many in theUTS Startups Then there’s Ruff Sleepers, a Health innovations aren’t theonly “Stitch Hubisessentially aone-

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