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New Pacific Media Course Opens For Enrolments
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 2:48 pm | Auckland University of Technology
AUCKLAND ( AUT Online/Pacific Media Watch ): A new regional one-year Pacific media course has opened for enrolments for the inaugural March 2010 intake at AUT University, which offers New Zealand’s largest and most diverse communication studies programme. More >>
Advancements in Solar Energy
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 9:35 am | AUT
The use of renewable energy is increasingly essential to achieve the Kyoto Protocol commitment for 2012 by reducing greenhouse emissions as well as reducing the ecological footprint of every New Zealander. Many initiatives have already been taken or planned ... More >>
Air Guitar Champ Wants To Bring Comp to NZ
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 4:26 pm | AUT University
The 2009 New Zealand Air Guitar Champion & 2nd place winner of the Australasian Air Guitar Champs, Louis Ewen aka “Gat Rockin’ Randy Reaper” is going to make it to the World Championships to bring home the gold for New Zealand. Auckland, New ... More >>
American expert visits AUT
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 1:11 pm | AUT
Singing shirts, purses with inbuilt touch alarms and cycling jackets that indicate when you turn are a few of the spinoffs of technology that allows fabric to respond to stimuli like light, sound and touch. This week, international electronic textiles ... More >>
Success For AUT At Prinz Awards
Friday, 22 May 2009, 4:17 pm | AUT University
AUT University students were in several winning teams at the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand’s national awards on 20 May 2009. AUT students won the Tertiary Student Project Award with their “OneForTheGirls” HPV Immunisation Campaign. ... More >>
IBM Grant To AUT Boosts SKA Bid
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 11:31 am | AUT University
A grant of specialised hardware, software, and research time to AUT University by IBM will strengthen New Zealand’s chances of co-hosting the world’s biggest radio telescope project. AUT leads the New Zealand arm of the Australasian Consortium striving ... More >>
Mental/physical fallout of unemployment
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:14 pm | AUT University
More attention needs to be given to the psychological and physical wellbeing of New Zealand’s rising population of unemployed, according to a leading health advocate. With unemployment expected to reach a seven-year high of 5.3%, Max Abbott, Professor ... More >>
Deputy PM to close Entrepreneurial Summit
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 2:53 pm | AUT University
Power pair Sharon Hunter and Tenby Powell will chair New Zealand’s bold ideas brainstorm, The Entrepreneurial Summit being held on May 21 at the Ellerslie Event Centre in Auckland. More >>
Author claims New Zealand Wars were avoidable
Friday, 1 May 2009, 3:47 pm | AUT University
The New Zealand Wars and the bloodshed that went with it could have been avoided. More >>
Auckland Governance Conference - April 28
Friday, 24 April 2009, 3:14 pm | AUT University
The future of Auckland’s governance has been dominating the media recently but what will the changes mean for business, the ratepayer and Auckland’s development? More >>
National centre to address neurological disorders
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 10:43 am | AUT University
One-fifth of New Zealanders will suffer a neurological disorder in their lifetime – a figure set to climb as the country’s population ages. Professor of Epidemiology and Neurology at AUT University Valery Feigin says improving outcomes for sufferers ... More >>
Condemnation of "ruthless censorship" in Fiji
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 9:21 am | AUT University
AUCKLAND (PMC Online/Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Media Centre, a regional development communication research and publication resource, has condemned the Fiji regime's 'ruthless censorship' of news organisations and called for an end to intimidation. More >>
The Entrepreneurial Summit opens door to ideas
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 1:58 pm | AUT University
The Entrepreneurial Summit team have been flooded with ideas to recreate New Zealand’s future and are now opening up submissions to “the man on the street”. New Zealand was built on the bedrock of great ideas says Entrepreneurial Summit coordinator, ... More >>
Sir Paul to present top award –
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 12:13 pm | AUT Business Faculty
Tonight, AUT University Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves will present AUT’s highest undergraduate business award to one of the university’s most outstanding students. More >>
NZ in need of a truly ‘family’ violence policy
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 4:17 pm | AUT University
“New Zealand does not have an enacted Family Violence policy, it has a ‘men’s violence to women policy’,” says AUT University Violence and Trauma Studies senior lecturer Warwick Pudney. ‘We have been bound to outdated programmes such as Duluth ... More >>
100 entrepreneurs, 100 ideas: Entrepreneur Summit
Monday, 30 March 2009, 5:24 pm | Auckland University of Technology
Entrepreneurial Summit coordinator Tony Falkenstein has been overwhelmed with interest to participate in a brainstorm of New Zealand's best entrepreneurs. Just Water International CEO Falkenstein says after announcing the summit on Friday, he received emails and ... More >>
Partnership to advance high performance sport
Friday, 27 March 2009, 11:49 am | AUT University
Calls by New Zealand athletes and coaches for internationally competitive elite sports facilities will be met under a new agreement between AUT University and the trustees of the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health. More >>
Top business students seeking mentorship
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 9:49 am | AUT University
AUT University’s top business students are seeking mentorship from New Zealand’s best business leaders. More >>
108yrs of Pacific research captured in index
Monday, 2 March 2009, 3:12 pm | AUT University
Pacific research captured in national index spanning 100 years Access to Pacific research is set to receive a major boost with the launch of an index that captures all theses containing research on the Pacific produced from 1900 — 2008. More >>
Stroke a killer for Māori and Pacific Islanders
Monday, 2 March 2009, 12:09 pm | AUT University
Stroke incident rates in Māori and Pacific Islanders are now similar to those in developing countries, reveals an AUT University study. “Stroke rates with Māori and Pacific Islanders have increased by 19 per cent to 66 per cent respectively,” ... More >>
