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LENScience students excel at science fair
Monday, 26 September 2011, 12:26 pm | Liggins Institute
Students from the Liggins Institute based LENScience Student-Scientist Mentor programme dominated the prize list at the NIWA Auckland Science and Technology Fair prize giving held at Kings School on 21st September. More >>
Study finds new link between pregnancy diet and obesity
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 11:40 am | Liggins Institute
NZ scientists have helped produce the first objective data that quantify a link between events before birth and the risk of later disease, and provide a plausible explanation for how this occurs. More >>
Nutrition theme for public lectures
Monday, 4 October 2010, 2:08 pm | Liggins Institute
The Liggins Institute has announced the line-up for their 2010 Seasons of Life lecture series. Nutrition – more than a good square meal has five leading New Zealand scientists and communicators examining aspects of the foods and nutrients that we consume and ... More >>
Gluckman: It is Hard to be a Teenager
Friday, 3 September 2010, 2:38 pm | Liggins Institute
Being an adolescent now is very different from being one just one or two generations ago and we will not understand the teenage years if we project our own experiences on to them. More >>
Evolution essential knowledge for medical students
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 2:16 pm | Liggins Institute
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, former Director of The University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute, is one of a number of eminent international medical scientists and educators calling for evolutionary biology to be a core subject in medical schools. The recommendation, ... More >>
Media personality to close popular lecture series
Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 1:44 pm | Liggins Institute
“Denis Dutton is a visionary,” claimed renowned Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker in his introduction to A Talk with Denis Dutton earlier this year. Professor Denis Dutton will give the final lecture, “The Art Instinct – Why We Evolved ... More >>
Praise for book by Liggins Institute researchers
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 3:52 pm | Liggins Institute
A review published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Science has commended authors Professor Sir Peter Gluckman and Dr Alan Beedle of Auckland’s Liggins Institute and Professor Mark Hanson, University of Southampton, for their book Principles of ... More >>
Award winning scientist to open lecture series
Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:06 am | Liggins Institute
Dr John Long is Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, a prolific and highly respected scientist and science communicator. On 22 July he will deliver the opening lecture “Death, Sex and Evolution - 380 million year old fishes and the ... More >>
Collaboration between AgResearch and Liggins
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 1:28 pm | Liggins Institute
In a move to optimise the nutritional and health-giving qualities of foods from pastoral-based sources for human consumption, AgResearch has put the official seal on a collaboration with The University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute, which will maximise research ... More >>
Interactive, satellite TV meets school science
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 10:39 am | Liggins Institute
School students across the country have been given the chance to prepare for their scholarship biology exam via a seminar series presented by leading New Zealand scientists and teachers through a converged satellite TV solution. More >>
A plea on behalf of our children
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 1:37 pm | Liggins Institute
“The value of life” is the final lecture in the Liggins Institute’s 2008 Seasons of Life Series. In it, Director Professor Peter Gluckman will make a passionate plea for governments and health agencies around the world to take better care of women ... More >>
Back to the classroom with Helen Clark
Wednesday, 14 June 2006, 3:43 pm | Liggins Institute
A unique education centre at the Liggins Institute, called the Sir John Logan Campbell Classroom, will be opened by the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark on 16th June. The facility will provide secondary school pupils with their own classroom in a successful research ... More >>
Background: The CoolCap Trial
Friday, 7 May 2004, 9:34 am | Liggins Institute
The CoolCap international clinical trial shows it is the first effective treatment for brain damage in oxygen-deprived newborn babies. More >>
Liggins Institute Prematurity Study Gains Funding
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 1:50 pm | Liggins Institute
Assessing the hormonal differences of children born early will be the focus of researchers at The University of Auckland Liggins Institute who have recently gained Health Research Council (HRC) funding. More >>
