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Auckland student, Haydn Luckman, wins top award
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 10:21 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Haydn Luckman, a second-year student at the University of Auckland Engineering School (formerly Auckland Grammar School), was presented with a Gold CREST award by Dr Helen Anderson, Chief Executive of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, on ... More >>
Tolaga Bay Girls Follow In Cook's Footsteps
Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 1:17 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Two Tolaga Bay Area School students, Puawai Ngata Gibson, and Rawinia Tuapawa, accompanied by their technology teacher Darryl Crawford, will travel to Tahiti on 2 June, as part of the Transit of Venus celebrations. The arrival of Cook in New Zealand, following ... More >>
Announcement by the Royal Society of New Zealand
Tuesday, 27 April 2004, 2:25 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Three schools have been selected from 72 entries to go on the 2004 Transit of Venus Expedition to the UK, leaving New Zealand on 28 May. More >>
Realise the Dream: national winners announced
Friday, 12 December 2003, 1:21 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Genesis Energy's Realise the Dream, organised by the Royal Society of New Zealand, announces the 12 winners for their projects in science, social science or business. More >>
Youth Science Wizardry on display
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:28 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Thirty-five of the best and brightest student minds will arrive in Wellington on Monday to demonstrate their ideas, research and proposed solutions to problems in the world around them. From using used nappies, through to trying to prevent date ... More >>
Students Places on Transit of Venus Expedition
Thursday, 30 October 2003, 12:21 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
The Royal Society of New Zealand, with sponsorship from the Freemasons of New Zealand, will send a party of nine students and three teachers to observe the first Transit of Venus for 120 years. This rare astronomical event is historically significant ... More >>
Professor Bryan Sykes - Genetics as History
Friday, 24 October 2003, 2:52 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Pete Hodgson, the Minister for Research, Science and Technology, can trace a direct line of maternal descent back to a woman who lived in Syria about 10,000 years ago, according to results just announced by the Royal Society of New Zealand. More >>
GM Precautions in Place
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 4:05 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Two years ago, the Royal Society of New Zealand, this country's science and technology society, took a long hard look at the science and social science of Genetic Modification. More >>
Professor Bryan Sykes - Genetics as History
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 2:08 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
On Thursday night, 23 October, at the UNESCO NZ Science lecture in Dunedin by Professor Bryan Sykes, some of New Zealand's top scientists will find out which "daughter of Eve" they are descended from. More >>
Royal Society Backs Call To To Ban Human Cloning
Friday, 26 September 2003, 4:54 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand's science academy has backed a call to the United Nations to ban human reproductive cloning, which has hit headlines over the past year with purported attempts at cloning a human being. The move, endorsed by the Inter-Academy Panel (IAP) on ... More >>
Teachers awarded a year to study
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 11:50 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
The Royal Society of New Zealand is delighted to announce the award of 59 NZ Science Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowships for 2004. More >>
Marsden Fund awards $43.8 million dollars
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 11:30 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
$43.8 million dollars has been allocated to original and exciting research in this year's Marsden Fund round. More >>
Marsden Fund awards announced
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 12:20 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
For the first time ever, funding for an iwi-based collaborative research project has been granted by the Fund. This proposal, which had to undergo rigorous evaluation, could provide a new model for the development of further such partnerships in other ... More >>
Lectures on Sex, Genes and Chromosomes
Friday, 29 August 2003, 9:29 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
David and Genevieve Becroft Foundation to support distinguished visiting scientists: Jenny Graves on the decline of the Y chromosome and the future of humankind More >>
Scientists Elected Royal Society Fellows
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 5:24 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Professor Alan MacDiarmid, one of only three New Zealanders to receive the Nobel Prize, and Professor Richard Sibson, an earthquake expert from the University of Otago, have joined the prestigious circle of New Zealand scientists who have been ... More >>
Six kids selected for International Science School
Monday, 5 May 2003, 2:39 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Six students have been selected from New Zealand to attend the Professor Harry Messel Science School in Sydney from the 6th - 9th of July. More >>
Students for USA Space Camp
Friday, 2 May 2003, 12:11 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Announcement by the Royal Society of New Zealand: Two students have been selected to attend the USA Space Camp, Huntsville, Alabama from 25 July until 2 August. More >>
Celebrating the Great Fossil Hunters
Friday, 11 April 2003, 4:29 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand's fossil elite will gather for breakfast in Wellington on Monday, to celebrate the events that brought the world's first recognised dinosaur fossil to New Zealand more than a century ago. The Iguanodon Tooth, described by Sussex country ... More >>
Snapshot Of Our Waterway Health
Monday, 24 March 2003, 7:59 am | The Royal Society of New Zealand
National Waterways Pollution Detectives will be in action around 22 March 2003, World Water Day, to take a snapshot of the health of our waterways. This initiative by the Royal Society of New Zealand is designed to encourage teachers and their pupils ... More >>
Dr James Watson Elected President of the RSNZ
Friday, 14 March 2003, 5:41 pm | The Royal Society of New Zealand
Dr James Watson Elected President of the Royal Society of New Zealand Dr James (Jim) Watson will take over from Sir Gil Simpson as President of the Royal Society, New Zealand's science academy. More >>
