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Health study of NZ’s Indian community lauched
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 12:24 am | Massey University
Massey University researchers are seeking more than 300 south Asian women living in New Zealand to study whether changes in diet and sunshine hours affects their health. More >>
Seminar: Explaining Visual Illusions
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 5:14 pm | Massey University
In this seminar Dr Wyatt Page, the director of the School of Engineering and Technology at Wellington, will explore how the human visual system works, demonstrate some visual illusions and explain why they occur. More >>
International Interest In Beatles Study
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 11:43 am | Massey University
There is international interest in a study by a New Zealand economics researcher on what drove the Beatles to success. More >>
Breast implants: risks underplayed, choice limited
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 10:51 am | Massey University
Growing numbers of New Zealand women are having breast augmentation surgery but too little information is being made available about the choices available for shape and size of implants and the associated risks, according to a researcher in the Centre ... More >>
Fruit for the fridge or the bowl?
Monday, 12 March 2007, 11:03 am | Massey University
New-season apples will stay crisp and flavoursome in a refrigerator, but the best place for tomatoes is in the fruit bowl. This is because less ripe tomatoes, like avocadoes and pineapples, are sensitive to chilling and will soften and lose flavour ... More >>
Search engines emerge from Google's shadow
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 1:31 pm | Massey University
An Internet search engine designed by Wellington campus digital media specialist Mark Zeman has been voted one of the world’s top 100 alternative search engines – the only one from New Zealand to make the list. More >>
MPs unite for School of Music
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 11:37 am | Massey University
Wellington MPs are setting aside political differences to lobby the Government to give the New Zealand School of Music a new home in Wellington’s Civic Square, at a cost of up to $50 million. More >>
New learning centre strengthens Pasifika links
Friday, 2 March 2007, 4:10 pm | Massey University
Links between Pasifika students and the University were strengthened with the opening of a new Pasifika Learning Centre at the Wellington campus this week. More >>
New board for Allan Wilson Centre
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 9:47 am | Massey University
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Judith Kinnear, has announced the formation of the new Governance Board of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution to cover the period of extended funding for the Centre until June next year. More >>
Saving an iconic Saudi Arabian species
Monday, 26 February 2007, 2:30 pm | Massey University
Associate Professor John Cockrem’s recipe for romance includes live green crickets, fresh greens and longer daylight hours. The Massey avian expert recently returned from Saudi Arabia where he is leading the first stages of a project to extend the ... More >>
How to ease rents and house prices
Monday, 26 February 2007, 2:05 pm | Massey University
Property analyst Professor Bob Hargreaves is proposing a solution to the problem of high rents and low home affordability – at no extra cost to the taxpayer. Professor Hargreaves says by selling 10 per cent of the current state housing stock every year, ... More >>
Services needed for mental illness in families
Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 3:36 pm | Massey University
New Zealand is lagging behind growing international recognition of the potential impact on children of living with parents who have a mental illness, says social work researcher Barbara Staniforth. More >>
Do milkshakes fill the gap?
Monday, 19 February 2007, 12:36 am | Massey University
A Massey PhD student is looking for participants for her research into the effects of dairy proteins and peptides on satiety. Based in the University’s Riddet Centre in Palmerston North, Ms Sylvia Chung is researching the theory that protein is more ... More >>
Design project boosts international competitivenes
Friday, 16 February 2007, 9:35 am | Massey University
A Massey University research project focusing on desirable design has been awarded a $1 million grant for a two-year project that will see the University collaborate with manufacturers such as Navman, Macpac, Gallagher Group and Tait Electronics. More >>
From molecules to mozzarella
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 5:16 pm | Massey University
Milk proteins, and their roles in complex food systems such as cheeses, are the focus of a symposium underway at the Riddet Centre at the University’s Palmerston North campus. More >>
Gay churchgoers abandon mainstream religions
Monday, 12 February 2007, 4:20 pm | Massey University
Gay churchgoers abandon mainstream religions New Zealand lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians have quit mainstream religion at two-and-half times the rate of the general population, according to a M More >>
Code-cracking adventures for kura kaupapa kids
Monday, 12 February 2007, 10:46 am | Massey University
Children returned to Kura Kaupapa Mäori schools last month to the final book in a trilogy of space-adventure, code-busting chapter-books written in Te Reo Mäori. More >>
Mäori Television’s young rugby stars on campus
Friday, 9 February 2007, 4:35 pm | Massey University
The makers of one of Mäori Television’s most successful programmes, School of Hard Knocks, have returned to Massey University’s Palmerston North campus to produce a second series. More >>
MacDiarmid an inspiration to young scientists
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 3:43 pm | Massey University
Massey scientist Professor Ashton Partridge has paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Professor Alan MacDiarmid who died today. More >>
Tracing the origins of the kumara
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 11:14 am | Massey University
Genetic analysis of kumara by Massey scientists will determine whether they are varieties cultivated by Mäori in pre-European New Zealand or varieties descended from those that travelled with early 19th Century whalers and sealers. More >>
