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  2. Thumbnail for Are we properly insured against an extreme future?

    Are we properly insured against an extreme future?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/785-are-we-properly-insured-against-an-extreme-future
    19 Oct 2018: How can individuals protect themselves financially from the effects of extreme weather—especially when it might be those least able to pay for repairs who are hardest hit?The devastating floods that swept Tasmania in June 2016 killed several
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    Doing school differently offers a second chance for young people

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/a-second-chance-for-young-people
    6 Jul 2018: Peter Underwood Centre deputy director, Professor Kitty te Riele, is a co-organiser of the biennial conference, Doing School Differently, which had its genesis in her 2014 report Putting the jigsaw together: Flexible Learning Programs in
  4. Thumbnail for The intersection of genetics and the law

    The intersection of genetics and the law

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/786-the-intersection-of-genetics-and-the-law
    19 Oct 2018: As our technologies have advanced, so has our understanding of—and ability to manipulate—the genes of living things. With our increasing globalisation, researchers can share information or biological material with colleagues on the other side of
  5. Thumbnail for Workplace health programs a good idea

    Workplace health programs a good idea

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/795-workplace-health-programs-a-good-idea
    19 Nov 2018: Employers that provide programs designed to improve employees’ health and wellbeing need to ensure that funding and resources match their goals, otherwise they could be disappointed with the results. Researchers from the University of Tasmania have
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    How does island life shape Tasmanians?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/782-how-does-island-life-shape-tasmanians
    19 Oct 2018: While geographical disconnection has many obvious implications on daily life (for example the cost of fuel, access to certain services, ability to collaborate with peers, etc. ) the impact of 'place' is also a common theme running through many
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    This is the future of forensic science

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/799-this-is-the-future-of-forensic-science
    7 Sep 2018: Since the first time fingerprint evidence was used to solve a gruesome double-murder more than a century ago, the DNA revolution has been the single greatest advance in forensic science. The technologies that underpin forensic techniques have become
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    Breath of life for respiratory research

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/806-breath-of-life-for-respiratory-research
    19 Dec 2018: Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome claim more than 3000 Australian lives each year and have mortality rates of approximately 30 per cent. Help is potentially at hand through mechanical ventilation, but the barrier to this
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    Building a link between obesity and infertility

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/804-building-a-link-between-obesity-and-infertility
    18 Dec 2018: Ye He was working at a medical clinic in China when she realised a lot of women struggling to conceive a child were obese. It was an observation that led Ye to devote her postgraduate research to establishing a link between obesity and fertility. Ye
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    Diet and depression link is not all in the mind

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/530-diet-and-depression-link-is-not-all-in-the-mind
    15 Feb 2018: New evidence of a biological link between diet and depression has come from the first study to analyse associations between diet, body mass index, inflammatory markers and mental health in adolescents. The association between overweight/obesity and
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    Helping premature babies breathe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/794-helping-premature-babies-breathe
    19 Nov 2018: Hundreds of hospitals around the world are using a gentle intervention developed at the University of Tasmania to save the lives of premature babies by helping them breathe. The treatment, known as ‘minimally-invasive surfactant therapy (MIST)’,

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