Celebrating 25 Years of Scoop
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register University of Canterbury for InfoPages here.
University of Canterbury - Latest News [Page 3]
Safe-guarding An Ethical Future For AI
Friday, 15 March 2024, 4:26 pm | University of Canterbury
Digital literacy experts are advocating for the need to change the way we engage with and teach Artificial Intelligence (AI), setting students up for success in the future. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Associate Professor ... More >>
Using ‘random Forest’ To Gain New Insights On Public Health
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 10:41 am | University of Canterbury
A UC-led public health study with city-wide participation generated a mountain of raw data, and researchers turned to machine learning to analyse it all. Healthy lifestyles are central to our wellbeing and it’s no secret that wider societal factors can ... More >>
Online Surveys Under Threat: How AI Can Corrupt Society
Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 11:25 am | University of Canterbury
Canterbury researchers have found that neither humans nor AI detection programmes are reliable or accurate for spotting the use of software used to manipulate online survey responses. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Associate ... More >>
University To Provide Special Olympics Village
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 10:10 am | University of Canterbury
Hundreds of Special Olympics athletes, volunteers and coaches will be housed by the University of Canterbury next year after a new partnership was agreed. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) has signed a memorandum of understanding ... More >>
Pandemic Put Antarctic Research On Ice
Monday, 4 March 2024, 3:09 pm | University of Canterbury
Covid-19 had a profound impact on scientific research, tourism and policy-making in Antarctica, new Canterbury-led research has found. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) School of Earth and Environment Associate Professor ... More >>
Out Of This World: NZ Research To Fly On ISS For First Time
Monday, 4 March 2024, 10:31 am | University of Canterbury
In a historic first, University of Canterbury research experiments will soon orbit Earth in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A research facility small enough to fit in your hand is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Commercial ... More >>
New Book Celebrates Connecting Indigenous And Western Knowledge
Friday, 16 February 2024, 6:30 pm | University of Canterbury
Published by Canterbury University Press, He Awa Whiria: Braiding the knowledge streams in research, policy and practice explores a groundbreaking bicultural approach. A view of the unique braided rivers of Waitaha Canterbury from the window of a plane ... More >>
Bacterial Genus Endemic To Aotearoa Is Like Discovering A “microbial Kiwi” Among Microorganisms.
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 8:36 am | University of Canterbury
Scientists discover microbe unique to NZ More >>
$1.3 Million For Research To Indigenise Health System
Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 10:30 am | University of Canterbury
Recent University of Canterbury funding success could help inform Aotearoa health policy, practice and systems. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Child Well-being Research Institute ... More >>
Japan Bound: UC’s First Global Internship Course
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 10:29 am | University of Canterbury
Seven UC students are in northern Japan on a new international internship course - a four-week enriching work and cultural experience. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) offers a range of Ako ā-Mahi | Work-Integrated Learning ... More >>
Award-winning System Aims To Make Pharmacies Safer
Monday, 22 January 2024, 4:15 pm | University of Canterbury
An innovative Canterbury start-up that harnesses AI and other new tech tools to reduce medicine-related errors in pharmacies has won an international business award. Script Sense is the brainchild of two Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of ... More >>
Mapping 140,000 Landslides For Safer Communities
Monday, 22 January 2024, 12:04 pm | University of Canterbury
Canterbury researchers and students have mapped 140,000 landslides triggered by Cyclone Gabrielle in a bid to create models for future weather events. New Zealand now boasts one of the largest single-event inventories of landslides globally. Te ... More >>
Legal Change A Positive Step For NZ’s Braided Rivers
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:26 am | University of Canterbury
New research highlighting the vulnerability of braided rivers has contributed to a recent law change acknowledging their uniqueness. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Professor Ann Brower of the School of Earth and Environment, ... More >>
New Research Aims To Protect Communities Against Wildfires
Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 11:51 am | University of Canterbury
Canterbury researchers are building models to give more accurate predictions of where large wildfires could spread as they burn. Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Associate Professor in Atmospheric Dynamics Marwan Katurji, who ... More >>
New Researching Charging The Way For National Power Savings
Thursday, 11 January 2024, 11:02 am | University of Canterbury
Renewable energy solutions could change the way we store solar and wind. An environmentally friendly and safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries, redox-flow batteries are used for grid storage, but they are big —usually the size of a shipping container—slow ... More >>
UC Technology Plugs The Leak In NZ’s Water Infrastructure
Monday, 8 January 2024, 7:38 pm | University of Canterbury
A UC research team has received $360,000 in Marsden funding to develop technology to assess and inform water use and infrastructure across New Zealand. In Aotearoa New Zealand, 20 percent of drinking water is lost to leakage, 90 percent of the piping ... More >>
Seaweed As Sustenance In Post-nuclear World
Thursday, 21 December 2023, 2:35 pm | University of Canterbury
Researchers have discovered seaweed could play a crucial role in enhancing global food security after global catastrophe such as nuclear war. The team, including Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) Mechanical Engineering Associate ... More >>
Writers Welcome Return To Canterbury For Residency
Friday, 15 December 2023, 10:04 am | University of Canterbury
Acclaimed author Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) returns to the University of Canterbury to take up one of two Ursula Bethell Writers in Residence placements. The 2024 residency will be a step back into familiar territory for Low, who was an undergraduate in ... More >>
Seedbank Strategies Needed To Conserve Our Forest Taonga
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 11:19 am | University of Canterbury
New research led by a Canterbury academic identifies that conventional seed banking alone isn’t enough to conserve all of Aotearoa’s endemic plants. Dr Sarah Wyse, who lectures in the School of Forestry at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University ... More >>
92 Years Of Resilience And Perseverance For UC Grad
Monday, 11 December 2023, 9:16 am | University of Canterbury
At 92, UC graduate Dr Patricia Roberts Pichette reflected on her pioneering career at UC’s 150th Anniversary. Dr Roberts-Pichette’s return from Ottawa, Canada marks not just a personal milestone but serves as a testament to her legacy and groundbreaking ... More >>
