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Honorary doctorate for Susan Devoy
Monday, 26 November 2012, 11:06 am | University of Waikato
Dame Susan Devoy, former world squash champion and community health advocate will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato next year. More >>
Waikato has more capacity for engineering students
Friday, 23 November 2012, 3:53 pm | University of Waikato
The University of Waikato says it has capacity to take on at least 100 more engineering students in the five programmes it offers. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce announced today that he’d gained 1000 extra places for engineering students at ... More >>
Royal Society honour for leading Māori scholar
Thursday, 22 November 2012, 10:39 am | University of Waikato
A leading social scientist and Māori scholar at the University of Waikato has been recognised for her work at the Royal Society of New Zealand 2012 Research Honours event held in Auckland last night [Wednesday November 21]. More >>
Gay pride adds colour to inaugural professorial lecture
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 2:37 pm | University of Waikato
It was billed as not your usual inaugural professorial lecture, and Professor Lynda Johnston’s free public lecture at the University of Waikato last night [Tuesday November 20] certainly lived up to expectations. More >>
Initiative to boost Māori saving and financial literacy
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 11:04 am | University of Waikato
The University of Waikato is to be part of a government and private sector initiative to boost Māori saving and financial literacy. More >>
University to play key role in new Māori working panel
Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 10:09 am | University of Waikato
The University of Waikato’s newly established Te Mata Hautū Taketake -- the Centre for Māori and Indigenous Governance – has joined government and private sector organisations on a working panel to ensure optimum value is gained from Māori assets. More >>
Road safety bear gets phone app
Monday, 19 November 2012, 11:10 am | University of Waikato
Ruben the Road Safety Bear now has his own Android phone app – thanks to some nifty programming work by a group of students from Waikato University’s Department of Computer Science. More >>
Forum to boost Waikato’s trade opportunities with India
Friday, 16 November 2012, 3:43 pm | University of Waikato
Dairy, IT, tourism, commerce and agribusiness are all on the agenda for the Hamilton-based India-New Zealand Business Forum, the first of what Waikato University hopes will become an annual event. More >>
Waikato professor to write carbon capture and storage law
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 10:02 am | University of Waikato
A Waikato University professor is helping reform the law for the future of carbon capture and storage in New Zealand. More >>
The one research study to rule them all
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 11:24 am | University of Waikato
Just a stone’s throw from Hobbiton, a group of researchers are embarking on their own quest – to look at international perceptions of, and hopes and expectations for, the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. More >>
Are we prepared for another Rena?
Friday, 9 November 2012, 11:03 am | University of Waikato
How New Zealand would handle another oil disaster like the Rena is the topic of discussion at the University of Waikato later this month. Chair of Coastal Science Professor Chris Battershill will be holding a public lecture called The Rena, and Offshore ... More >>
Gay Pride And Public Space – A New Take On Geography
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 9:18 am | University of Waikato
Professor Lynda Johnston of the University of Waikato’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is not your typical geographer. More >>
Researchers turn to “wisdom of elders”
Monday, 5 November 2012, 10:44 am | University of Waikato
A University of Waikato-led research project which draws on the “wisdom of the elders” to improve conservation and biodiversity has won support from the prestigious Marsden Fund, New Zealand's funding for ideas-driven research. “He rongo i te reo ... More >>
Waikato University study: Sport horse industry worth $1B
Friday, 2 November 2012, 5:15 pm | University of Waikato
The sport horse industry in New Zealand is worth over $1 billion a year according to a University of Waikato student’s study. More >>
The reason we share food
Thursday, 1 November 2012, 3:07 pm | University of Waikato
A University of Waikato researcher is looking at the bio-psychological link between ‘love-hormone’ oxytocin and the sharing of food. “As a society we share resources even when they are extremely scarce,” says biological scientist Dr Pawel Olszewski. More >>
Getting on top of toxin production
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 10:58 am | University of Waikato
University of Waikato ecologist Professor David Hamilton has been awarded a $920,000 Marsden Grant to study toxin production found in blue-green algae in lakes. More >>
Searching for ecology’s Holy Grail
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 10:31 am | University of Waikato
A University of Waikato researcher is working on a model to predict where plant species grow and how they will react to climate change. More >>
Clever thinking creates cleaner water
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 11:55 am | University of Waikato
Two chemists from the University of Waikato have come up with an innovative method for treating bore water on Waikato farms. More >>
Waikato researchers study strangles
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 11:54 am | University of Waikato
Two University of Waikato researchers are working to come up with a faster way to detect strangles in horses. More >>
Waikato University researchers win six Marsden Fund grants
Thursday, 25 October 2012, 10:02 am | University of Waikato
An examination of what triggers toxin production in blue-green algae, the role of the hormone oxytocin in sharing food with others, and an analysis of whakatauki (proverbs) and conservation of biodiversity in Aotearoa are among six research projects led ... More >>
