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Students take recyclable, electric car to Singapore
Friday, 3 March 2017, 12:11 pm | University of Canterbury
A team of University of Canterbury engineering students gave their fully recyclable, electric car its final test run, today, in preparation to compete at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia, in Singapore. More >>
NZ Fine Arts student features in Venice exhibition
Thursday, 2 March 2017, 4:55 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury Fine Arts Master’s student Jen Bowmast has been selected as a finalist in a prestigious international art competition with her artwork to be part of the Arte Languna exhibition at the Arsenale of Venice, in Italy, this ... More >>
UC mathematicians get crafty around New Zealand
Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 1:55 pm | University of Canterbury
Armed with knitting needles and origami paper, University of Canterbury mathematicians Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson are on a mission to bring maths to the masses, through craft. More >>
Effects of the Kaikoura quakes on coastal marine systems
Friday, 24 February 2017, 5:06 pm | University of Canterbury
UC Connect public lecture on the effects of the Kaikoura quakes on coastal marine systems: More >>
UC marine scientist named NZ's first Pew Conservation Fellow
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 4:40 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury Antarctic marine scientist Dr Regina Eisert has been recognised for her work protecting the world’s oceans with a prestigious Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship. More >>
UC planet hunters search the galaxy’s centre
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 10:06 am | University of Canterbury
With the help of international researchers and three identical telescopes in Chile, Australia and South Africa, the UC Physics and Astronomy team is helping answer some of the great unknowns about the planets in our galaxy. More >>
UC academic to write Global Warming Special Report for UN
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 2:58 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury (UC) Associate Professor Bronwyn Hayward is the only New Zealander among the world experts appointed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) to prepare the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. More >>
UC physicists take a (nano)chip off the old block
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 10:09 am | University of Canterbury
Computer components can’t just keep getting smaller forever. So how does the computer then continue to become faster, lighter and more energy efficient? A team of University of Canterbury physicists think they have the answer – in the human brain. More >>
UC research: Are we all intuitive maths geniuses?
Tuesday, 21 February 2017, 12:47 pm | University of Canterbury
Is there mathematical knowledge built in to how we perceive the world? Are all of us essentially geniuses at maths, even if we didn’t do well at maths in school? University of Canterbury psychologists have a Marsden Grant of $705,000 to conduct ... More >>
UC research targets dozens of incurable diseases
Monday, 20 February 2017, 10:56 am | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury researchers are working on a revolutionary drug-targeting system that could one day be used to treat a range of fatal, inherited diseases caused by genetic enzyme deficiencies. More >>
UC researchers look into what makes plant communities tick
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 12:29 pm | University of Canterbury
What makes diverse plant communities like New Zealand's iconic grasslands tick? What allows so many competing species to co-exist? A team of University of Canterbury (UC) scientists and overseas collaborators are working to find out. More >>
UC Pacific academic wins Fulbright award
Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 12:29 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury Professor Steven Ratuva has won a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to carry out research as a visiting professor in the United States next year. More >>
From didymo and drones to 3D, VR and yaks
Friday, 10 February 2017, 3:14 pm | University of Canterbury
Save the Future From didymo and drones to 3D, VR and yaks What did you do this summer? If you were in the University of Canterbury’s Summer Startup Programme, you may well have started your own award-winning business aimed at changing the world. This ... More >>
Drone swarm to locate people post-disaster
Thursday, 9 February 2017, 10:42 am | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury (UC) researchers are working with Japanese colleagues to develop technologies that will enable swarms of drones to locate and potentially triage people buried in the wreckage and debris of natural disasters. More >>
Icetronauts use old bird to measure Antarctic ice
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 4:22 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury glaciologist Dr Wolfgang Rack is leading the world’s first EM-bird measurement of sea-ice thickness, towed by a 75-year-old fixed-wing aircraft in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. More >>
How can we live well on a finite planet?
Friday, 3 February 2017, 11:13 am | University of Canterbury
It is rare for an economics text to become a best-seller, but when it was first published in 2009, Professor Tim Jackson’s Prosperity Without Growth - Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow did just that. More >>
Creative opportunity for Pacific artists
Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 1:59 pm | University of Canterbury
Traditional or contemporary Pacific artists can apply now to develop new directions in their artistic practice through anart residency at the University of Canterbury (UC). More >>
UC takes top spot in University Challenge
Monday, 23 January 2017, 9:26 pm | University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC) team has won New Zealand academia’s top trivia quiz show, University Challenge for the second year since the show returned to New Zealand screens in 2014. The UC team, team captain Stewart Alexander (PhD student ... More >>
Reading New Zealand Poetry around the world
Thursday, 19 January 2017, 11:24 am | University of Canterbury
One of the world’s leading literary critics and poets Harvard Professor Stephen Burt, who has a particular interest in New Zealand poet James K Baxter, will discuss New Zealand poetry in an event hosted by the University of Canterbury’s English ... More >>
UC research influences Government’s microbead ban
Monday, 16 January 2017, 4:57 pm | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury research has influenced a Government proposal to ban personal care products containing plastic microbeads, announced today. More >>
