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High profile physicist appointed to Victoria Unive
Wednesday, 23 May 2001, 2:42 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Internationally-renowned physicist Professor Paul Callaghan has been appointed as Professor of Chemical Physics at Victoria University. More >>
FORMER CHIEF OMBUDSMAN TO GET HONORARY DOCTORATE
Monday, 21 May 2001, 11:06 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Former Chief Ombudsman and former head of Foreign Affairs Sir George Laking is to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Victoria University. More >>
Victoria University science mentoring system
Friday, 18 May 2001, 3:28 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University’s science faculty has launched a mentoring system with a Wellington regional secondary school in a bid to boost the numbers of Maori and Pacific Nations students taking science at the university. More >>
Victoria creates Lord Cooke of Thorndon lecture
Friday, 11 May 2001, 10:11 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University's Law School is establishing an annual lecture in honour of distinguished alumnus, the Rt Hon Lord Cooke of Thorndon. More >>
Older students 'going for it'
Wednesday, 9 May 2001, 9:41 am | Victoria University of Wellington
This sentiment is among key findings from a postal survey of 1600 students over the age of 40 at Victoria University of Wellington. More >>
Glass: a high-tech future for an old material
Tuesday, 8 May 2001, 10:21 am | Victoria University of Wellington
The term "glasses" traditionally conjures up thoughts of spectacles, windows or drink containers, but a team of Victoria University and Industrial Research Limited scientists have discovered important new ways that glass can be used. More >>
New research centre formed at Victoria University
Friday, 27 April 2001, 1:16 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
A new research centre addressing the issues of accounting, governance and taxation has been formed at Victoria University. More >>
Record international student numbers at Victoria
Friday, 20 April 2001, 11:14 am | Victoria University of Wellington
481 new international students enrolled at Victoria in February 2001, an increase of 88% on the 255 enrolled in February 2000 and more than double the 175 enrolled in February 1999. Undergraduate students comprise 77% (372) of the new students. More >>
Research sheds new light on Pacific history
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 2:17 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
New research data are helping to answer some important questions on how the ancestors of modern day Polynesians came to settle Oceania and have provided some exciting new insights into the process of recent human evolution in the Pacific. More >>
Record numbers enrol at Victoria University
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 10:58 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University enrolments are at an all-time high with record numbers of students enrolling. More >>
New Zealand's largest literary prize established
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 11:16 am | Victoria University of Wellington
A $60,000 grant, the largest single literary prize in New Zealand, has been established at Victoria University of Wellington, along with the International Institute of Modern Letters. More >>
Victoria Uni & Radio New Zealand Launch Creative
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 1:38 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Radio New Zealand and Victoria University have announced a new joint venture which will see the public broadcaster involved in a partnership with Professor Bill Manhire's Creative Writing Programme. More >>
Festival celebrates NZ's creative contribution
Monday, 26 February 2001, 2:46 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
A festival aimed at promoting New Zealand's contribution to global culture and celebrating our creative energies and ethnic diversity begins this week. More >>
Voices from the Grassroots of Science
Friday, 2 February 2001, 1:46 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
A respected international academic says many New Zealand scientists and technologists have been unable to determine whether our science and technology policy is evolutionary or revolutionary. The speed of change has evoked a variety of responses ranging from ... More >>
World first: three-way HyperClass link
Monday, 18 December 2000, 11:24 am | Victoria University of Wellington
On 15 December 2000 a three-way link was successfully made in HyperReality between Waseda University in Japan, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and the Queensland Open Learning Network in Australia. More >>
USD replacement of other currencies inevitable
Monday, 11 December 2000, 4:22 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
A de-facto currency union with the US will in the end simply bypass any interim union with Australia, says Victoria University Economist, Professor Roger Bowden. More >>
Research helps predict earthquake aftershocks
Thursday, 7 December 2000, 4:00 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
A Victoria University student has developed a model that will help predict the expected occurrence of aftershocks after a large earthquake has occurred. More >>
Role of grandparents important when a child dies
Thursday, 7 December 2000, 9:41 am | Victoria University of Wellington
New research illustrates how grandparents offer crucial support to their family when a grandchild dies. More >>
Friendship impacts on race relations
Tuesday, 5 December 2000, 9:17 am | Victoria University of Wellington
The identity "New Zealander" is often used to hide differences under a veneer of similarity a Victoria University researcher says. More >>
Research studies Deaf people's lives
Monday, 4 December 2000, 2:12 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
In New Zealand there have been few descriptions of Deaf people's life experiences and in particular very little information is available on the impact of deafness on the lives of Deaf New Zealanders. However, research undertaken by Victoria University ... More >>
