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Waikato PR students focus on membership
Monday, 19 October 2009, 3:19 pm | Waikato University
In tough economic times it’s often difficult for not-for-profit organisations to recruit and in retain members, and that in turn affects income and work capacity. More >>
Law student wins energy scholarship
Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:47 am | Waikato University
Waikato University science and law student Catherine Kubs has won an Energy Law Association scholarship to attend a high powered energy conference in Sydney. Kubs, in the final year of a BSc/LLB (Hons) is researching legal liability in carbon capture and storage ... More >>
Māori lecturer in international Hall of Fame
Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:37 am | Waikato University
Waikato University senior lecturer Sandy Morrison is going to be inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. The US-based organisation attracts international educators from around the world to honour leaders in the field ... More >>
International award for local case writers
Thursday, 8 October 2009, 1:47 pm | Waikato University
Auckland-based company Good Water, which uses PLA plastic bottles that are completely biodegradable, is the subject of an award winning case study. Drs Steve Bowden and Eva Collins from Waikato University Management School along with Kate Kearins and ... More >>
Waikato Uni research into the Māori way of death
Thursday, 8 October 2009, 10:26 am | Waikato University
A unique project at the University of Waikato to examine the Māori way of death has won a prestigious Marsden Fund grant, worth $950,000 over three years, in the Royal Society of New Zealand’s latest research funding round. More >>
Manuka honey’s medical marvels measured in gold
Monday, 5 October 2009, 4:59 pm | Waikato University
The scientist who discovered the original manuka honey activity has put his name to a new standard that guarantees consumers are getting the genuine article. More >>
Waikato University welcome for Ngāti Kuri elder
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 10:25 am | Waikato University
Māori rights advocate and the last remaining signatory to the Wai262 claim, Saana Murray, has visited the University of Waikato to acknowledge the research work done by the university’s Honey Research Unit. Mrs Murray, a Ngāti Kuri elder, visited ... More >>
University’s adult learners celebrated with awards
Monday, 14 September 2009, 1:07 pm | Waikato University
A music composition student, a trainee teacher and a video maker are among this year’s winners of the University of Waikato Vice Chancellor’s Adult Learners Awards. First offered in 2001, the awards are intended to encourage more adults to ... More >>
New history book holds mirror up to our complexity
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 3:48 pm | Waikato University
If you’re expecting to find a definitive statement about who we are in the just-published New Oxford History of New Zealand, think again. The first up-to-date, multi-authored general history book of its kind, The New Oxford History holds a mirror up to our ... More >>
Revolution in the classroom
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:48 pm | Waikato University
Picture this. A demolition company is poised to knock down an abandoned old wool scouring factory. But it’s not quite as simple as it looks: There’s been a break in, a laptop and a bulldozer have been stolen so the police have had to be called ... More >>
Bigger, better, faster
Monday, 13 July 2009, 3:48 pm | Waikato University
Waikato University has unveiled two new microscopes to the world. A $1 million Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope replaces its 20-year-old predecessor and comes with a cryogenic preparation unit, allowing it to examine hydrated samples of materials ... More >>
Rural land price slump: A catalyst for change?
Monday, 8 June 2009, 3:41 pm | Waikato University
The latest monthly figures show farm sales stand at just one-third of the figure for last year, while the median farm price has dropped by nearly half. With falling prices and lower mortgage interest rates, new entrants to farming may believe it's ... More >>
Distribution key to building brands
Monday, 8 June 2009, 1:24 pm | Waikato University
Launching any new brand is a high-stakes gamble: a US survey shows that 55% of new brands fail to reach the status of an established brand. Yet as market innovation gathers pace, firms are under pressure to find effective marketing strategies for ... More >>
Award for Waikato marketing expert
Monday, 8 June 2009, 1:04 pm | Waikato University
Which countries should New Zealand target to boost tourism? What’s been the effect of slashing the marketing budget for Tourism Waikato? And do loyalty programmes such as FlyBuys really work? Finding answers to these and other important questions is ... More >>
University and Wintec join forces
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 5:12 pm | Waikato University
University and Wintec join forces Waikato University and Wintec have signed an agreement which will further enhance learning and research in the region and will see the complementary delivery of some programmes. The university and Wintec, (the Waikato Institute of ... More >>
US award for Waikato academic’s work on ozone laye
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 6:27 pm | Waikato University
Waikato University Professor Janet Bornman is collecting an international award this week (SUBS APRIL 21) for her work on protecting the ozone layer. More >>
Dusting off child murder history
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 10:14 am | Waikato University
New Zealand’s history of infanticide and child homicide is being scrutinised by Waikato University PhD student Debra Powell. She says the moral panic we’re currently experiencing over child deaths is nothing new. The same debate was going on in the ... More >>
Waikato Uni presents honorary doctorate in UK
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 9:39 am | Waikato University
A long-time proponent of sustainability has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato. New Zealand-born woman Zena Daysh was presented with the honorary doctorate recently at a UK function attended by the university’s Chancellor, ... More >>
Waikato engineering student's 'active advertising'
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 3:11 pm | Waikato University
A new advertising device being trialled outside one Hamilton store this week certainly had a few passers-by doing a double-take. More >>
Fairytale opportunity for Waikato
Monday, 23 February 2009, 12:13 pm | Waikato University
What do the Brothers Grimm, Albert Einstein and Karl Marx have in common? They’re all former students of Berlin’s oldest university, Humboldt University. More >>
