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8 unusual facts about University of Tasmania


Alexandra de Blas

de Blas completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney in 1981 and later completed a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies (Hons) at the University of Tasmania in 1993.

Ian Cresswell

Cresswell is currently doing postgraduate studies at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania.

James Backhouse Walker

The Law School of the University of Tasmania commemorates him with the J. B. Walker Memorial Prize.

Leonard Rodway

He acted as an advisory officer to the forestry department and was for some years lecturer in botany at the University of Tasmania.

Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris

He was one of the original members of the council of education founded in 1859, and long advocated the establishment of the University of Tasmania.

Southern Transport Investment Program

The University of Tasmania is currently spending ten thousand dollars a month subsidising bus travel for students between the Hobart and Launceston Campus.

Sullivans Cove

The University of Tasmania's School of the Arts building is based on Hunter Street.

Towson University Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

It coordinates several dual degree programs, including engineering programs with the University of Maryland, College Park and Pennsylvania State University; a medicinal chemistry program with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and a program with the University of Tasmania in biological sciences and aquaculture or Antarctic and southern ocean studies.


Adrian Franklin

Adrian Franklin is a professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania and a well known television and radio presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having done work for such programs as By Design on ABC Radio National and also for the ABC television series Collectors where, with Gordon Brown and Claudia Chan Shaw, he was one of the panel of experts.

Alexander McAulay

Alexander McAulay (1863–1931) was an explorer of Clifford biquaternion theory and was the first professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania.

Bachelor of Business

Many universities such as Monash University and the University of Queensland are offering Bachelor of Business degrees as a way to further specialise students study needs while other universities such as University of New England, University of Tasmania, James Cook University, Griffith University and La Trobe University have replaced many of their traditional general Commerce programs with Business programs.

Donald H. Tuck

Tuck was born in Launceston, Tasmania, but his family soon moved to Hobart, where his father was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tasmania.

E. Morris Miller

Edmund Morris Miller, CBE (1881 – 1964) was an Australian author, professor, and vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania between 1933-1945.

Eric Abetz

Abetz studied at Taroona High School, Hobart Matriculation College and the University of Tasmania, earning degrees in law and arts in 1981.

Harish Sharma

He worked as a civil servant and as an insurance agent before departing for Tasmania in 1960, where he received the LL.B. from the University of Tasmania in 1964.

Invermay, Tasmania

Invermay is also home to many of Launceston's cultural institutions, in an area known as the "Inveresk Precinct" including the Tramway museum, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, The Powerhouse Gallery and ArtSpace and University of Tasmania campus.

Lara Giddings

Giddings was educated at Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) in Melbourne, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts/Laws degree at the University of Tasmania.

Lindsay Simpson

Lindsay was Co-ordinator and founder of the Master of Arts (Writing) and the Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism at James Cook University and founder of the Journalism & Media Studies program and postgraduate writing program at University of Tasmania.


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