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Eureka moment for Waikato engineering student
Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 12:17 pm | Waikato University
University of Waikato engineering student Shalini Guleria has been awarded second place in the 2014 Sir Paul Callaghan EUREKA! Awards for her idea to reduce side effects in the treatment of cancer. More >>
Dame Anne Salmond to start Rutherford lecture series
Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 11:52 am | Waikato University
Dame Anne Salmond, renowned author, academic and environmentalist, will give this year’s Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford Lectures on four different areas of our national life. Dame Anne will open the series, called ‘Experiments across ... More >>
Waikato: Enlightening Work for Recent Grads
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 3:23 pm | Waikato University
From left, University of Waikato graduates Declan ter Veer-Burke and Simon Campbell are both employed as Software Developers at Hamilton company Enlighten Designs. More >>
Graduate profile on Adam Ling (from Tauranga)
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 10:52 am | Waikato University
Juggling study with his sport has been a challenge, but rower Adam Ling says with helpful lecturers and timetable flexibility, he was able to make the most of both his sporting and academic opportunities while at Waikato University. More >>
12th Annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture
Monday, 13 October 2014, 10:52 am | Waikato University
Novelist and short story writer, Catherine Chidgey, will address the idea of place in her writing at this lecture. She will consider the ways in which the real world impinges on the imaginary, and explore some of the tricks a writer can use to make ... More >>
KuDos Award win for Waikato University technician
Friday, 10 October 2014, 11:59 am | Waikato University
The Hill Laboratories Laboratory Technician Award was last night presented to University of Waikato Advanced Technical Officer Chris McBride at the 2014 KuDos Science Excellence Awards. More >>
Business leader honoured
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 10:39 am | Waikato University
One of New Zealand’s leading businessmen is to receive the University of Waikato’s most prestigious award of Honorary Doctorate. More >>
Fun run and walk series returns to campus
Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 1:37 pm | Waikato University
Runners and walkers can look forward to the return of the Campus 5km Fun Run and Walk which kicks off 6 October and runs till 15 December. More >>
MBIE funding ahead of zombie apocalypse
Tuesday, 16 September 2014, 10:14 am | Waikato University
A six-year, $12million cyber security project will lead to the creation of tools which will return control of cloud-based data to users, but it is the prospect of creating jobs and a new market for New Zealand which excites the man leading the ... More >>
Tauranga's Café Scientifique unveils brain activity
Monday, 8 September 2014, 11:01 am | Waikato University
Tauranga’s Café Scientifique will see Dr Marcus Wilson, Faculty of Science and Engineering from the University of Waikato, explain how different patterns of electrical activity in the brain can be seen when someone is sleeping, thinking or under general ... More >>
Top achievement award: PhD student Mark Will
Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 11:05 am | Waikato University
Processing encrypted data securely in the Cloud is the subject of Mark Will’s PhD, and a scholarship recognising his high level of achievement will go some way to help support him while he carries out this research. More >>
Waikato Dean to lead Biological Heritage Science Challenge
Tuesday, 2 September 2014, 11:17 am | Waikato University
Reversing the decline of New Zealand's biological heritage is the mission for a new multi-million dollar national research programme led by the University of Waikato’s Professor Bruce Clarkson. More >>
Aquatics Technical Team Leader makes the KuDos Award finals
Tuesday, 2 September 2014, 10:44 am | Waikato University
Dudley Bell’s contribution to science has been recognised with selection as a finalist in the Hill Laboratories Technician/Technologist section of the 2014 KuDos Awards. More >>
PhD candidate Jack Pronger awarded Top Achiever Scholarship
Monday, 1 September 2014, 12:28 pm | Waikato University
Jack Pronger is one of two first-year PhD candidates to be awarded a 2014 Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship from the University of Waikato. The scholarship adds a one-off payment of $5000 to Jack’s Doctoral Scholarship from Waikato. His primary funding ... More >>
Executive receives prestigious University of Waikato award
Monday, 1 September 2014, 11:17 am | Waikato University
Waikato-Tainui Chief Executive Parekawhia McLean will be recognised for her impact in public policy and the public sector with a University of Waikato Distinguished Alumni Award later this month. More >>
Bay benefits from Tauranga campus
Saturday, 12 July 2014, 9:51 am | Waikato University
A tertiary campus in downtown Tauranga will generate benefits of $188 million over the next 20 years and provide a rate of return of more than 30% on the initial investment, a new report says. More >>
Important archive finds new home
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 9:50 am | Waikato University
The collected archives of New Zealand’s “first and greatest music historian” have found a new home at the University of Waikato library. More >>
Everyone benefits from international students
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 9:45 am | Waikato University
The value of international students to the regional and national economies has been highlighted in a new economic impact report. More >>
Waikato science students tackle cancer and memory research
Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 12:27 pm | Waikato University
Preventing breast cancer, reducing the toxicity of radiotherapy and chemotherapy side effects, and analysing memory function during anaesthesia, were the topics for three students from the University of Waikato, who have just completed summer studentships. More >>
Environmental Planning Professor tackles water issues
Friday, 31 January 2014, 3:18 pm | Waikato University
29 January 2014 Floods are becoming harder to manage by trying to hold water back behind flood defences, so it’s time to look at how to defend against them at the building and community level. More >>
