Victoria University
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Victoria is a thriving community of almost 25,000 people. Most, of course, are students of all nationalities, from all walks of life who have come to learn in the vital, open environment that only university study can offer.
Understanding what helps people become active users of the Maori language could hold the key to reversing the decline in speaker numbers, says a Victoria University researcher.
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Victoria's School of Government will tonight launch a new research institute that will look into issues at the heart of the democratic process, thanks to a generous $3 million endowment from The Gama Foundation.
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WELLINGTON CITY — American theologian Professor William Cavanaugh is delivering four public lectures in Wellington next week.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The extent of renowned French artist Marcel Duchamp's influence on New Zealand artists and his place in our cultural history are explored in the latest exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery.
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Victoria University’s Dr Alan Gamlen has been appointed as the founding Editor-in-Chief of a new journal from Oxford University Press.
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Dr Ocean Mercier has been recognised as one of New Zealand's top teachers.
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As the number of infants and toddlers entering early childhood education continues to grow, a Victoria University researcher has been investigating what the role of the teachers of very young children should be.
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Author, poet, playwright, and scriptwriter Damien Wilkins will be the next Director of Victoria's International Institute of Modern Letters.
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A group of nearly 30 international scientists, including Victoria University’s Professor Peter Barrett, has set out the major conservation challenges facing the Antarctic region now, and for the next 50 years, in an article published in Science magazine.
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Working in film is often precarious, tough and poorly paid, but the attractions of the industry often outweigh the challenges, according to research carried out at Victoria University.
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Victoria University Japanese Programme Director and Associate Professor Edwina Palmer is the first New Zealander to receive the prestigious Inoue Yasushi Award for her article entitled ‘A poem to carp about? Poem 16–3828 of the Man'yoshu collection’.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Ever wondered how people learn languages? Professor Nick Ellis, a world-leading linguist, will explore how humans have developed this fundamental skill at a free public lecture at Victoria University this Thursday.
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Business stalwart John Shewan will help the next generation of students prepare for life in the fast lane by taking up the position of Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Victoria Business School.
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A selection of esteemed New Zealand poets will rub shoulders with some of the world’s biggest names in poetry, as part of a cultural festival surrounding the London Olympics.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A sneak preview into a world inhabited by a hapless young girl rescued from a plague-ravaged slum by a sinister benefactor makes for a dramatic start to this year's Writers on Mondays series.
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A plan for an indigenous tribe in Colombia to capitalise on the medicinal properties of a local plant took out the top spot at a Wellington-run international student business case competition.
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An Oxford University-led study examining the consequences of the ongoing fiscal squeeze in Western economies is looking to the past to inform the present, with two academics from Victoria's School of Government providing a New Zealand perspective.
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A Victoria University law alumnus and former Faculty member has won the Yorke Prize at Cambridge University.
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Victoria University's alumni and friends from fields as diverse as business, music and medical research have been recognised in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The best and brightest from schools around the country arrived in Wellington today to compete in Treasury's inaugural Long-Term Fiscal Schools Challenge, with a scholarship to study at Victoria University at stake.
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TAUPO — Taupo’s volcano was the scene of the most recent super-eruption on Earth.
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Victoria law alumna Amelia Keene is the 2012 winner of the New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship for outstanding women scholars holding a New Zealand university law degree.
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Victoria University scientists have discovered that slow, creeping earthquakes take place deep beneath the Alpine Fault on the South Island’s West Coast, which is regarded as New Zealand’s most hazardous fault line.
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National water polo representative Eamon Lui-Fakaotimanava completed a full family circle of Victoria University graduates when his Bachelor of Commerce and Administration degree was conferred yesterday.
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Discoveries made during PhD studies by Victoria University graduate Emma Dangerfield could revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry, by allowing drugs to be made in a more environmentally friendly way.
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WELLINGTON CITY — More graduands than ever before will this week celebrate successfully completing their studies at Victoria University of Wellington's May Graduation ceremonies.
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Victoria University is saddened by the recent passing of distinguished alumnus, former Cook Islands Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University of Wellington will confer honorary degrees on an acclaimed astrophysicist and a successful businessman during this month's Graduation ceremonies.
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Victoria University health researchers say hospital productivity in New Zealand rose by more than three to five percent in the period between 2007 and 2009, challenging perceptions that productivity rates in the sector.
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In time to celebrate international Save the Frogs Day, a major study has shown that one of New Zealand’s frog species not only lives longer than most other frogs, but has one of the smallest home-ranges known for any vertebrate.
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The way New Zealand currently manages its oceans is not going to work in the face of competing conservation, economic and environmental demands, says visiting American marine policy expert Dr Mike McGinnis.
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Whether it’s your chance of winning Lotto, betting on sports, taking out insurance or weather forecasts predicting the chance of rain, probability plays a part in our everyday lives.
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On Tuesday the University hosted, in conjunction with Business New Zealand, a visit from His Excellency Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the People's Republic of China.
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Photographs of the night sky dating as far back as 1874 were discovered in the process of putting together the exhibition 'Dark Sky' for the Adam Art Gallery.
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The crane on the Kelburn campus construction site will be removed on Saturday 14 April (with Sunday 15 April as a back up day).
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WELLINGTON CITY — More development on the waterfronts of New Zealand's coastal towns could boost our economic growth and provide valuable public spaces for recreation, says Victoria University researcher Professor Diane Brand.
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The latest issue of Best New Zealand Poems (www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems) comes with a South Island perspective and Irish rhythm.
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Victoria University student brain power is helping the Firefox web browser go faster.
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We now have a new way of viewing the Milky Way, thanks to Victoria astronomer Melanie Johnston-Hollitt and one of her undergraduate students.
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Wellington is a long way from the continent of Africa but research being conducted at Victoria University is helping restore populations of animals like rhinoceros that live on the African savannahs.
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Research at Victoria University aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of hearing defects.
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A major new publication exploring the creative achievements and cultural influence of the New Zealand film and television industries will be launched on Thursday.
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Logging on to Facebook could soon be a way of contributing to important scientific research, as well as finding out what’s going on in your world.
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Charles Dickens, one of England’s most-loved novelists, was born 200 years ago this week and a Victoria University researcher has come up with what, for some, will be a new twist on his life.
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Victoria University research will help support the management of the New Zealand rock lobster industry, worth $220 million each year.
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Ideally, couples are one heart and one soul but when it comes to deciding whether to emigrate, they are often of two minds.
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The degree to which social networking is embedded in New Zealand’s youth drinking culture is highlighted in preliminary results from a new study by researchers at Victoria and Massey universities.
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Developing new weapons to control the deadliest predator of New Zealand native birds is the goal of a research project underway at Victoria University.
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One of the elements of successful design is the ability to surprise.
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Victoria’s Centre for Strategic Studies has been named as one of the world’s ‘go to’ think tanks.
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Four strikingly different uses of photography, by artists from New Zealand and abroad, are being presented at Victoria University's Adam Art Gallery from next week to coincide with the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012.
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Android phones donated by Google have given engineering students at Victoria University the chance to innovate as well as ensuring graduates are job-ready.
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Corruption is higher in countries with lower incomes according to Victoria University research that compared changes in levels of corruption in 59 countries over nearly 30 years.
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Research from Victoria University could help search engines understand people’s queries much better.
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Better help with battling drug addiction could be at hand as a result of research underway at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Victoria University staff Professor Peter Hughes and Professor Tony Angelo have been awarded New Year’s Honours.
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Capping off an extraordinary year of success, Victoria University debaters Sebastian Templeton and Richard D’Ath have taken on the world and won.
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Victoria University's Faculty of Commerce and Administration is now among just 58 business schools worldwide that hold the 'Triple Crown' of international accreditations EQUIS (www.efmd.org), AACSB (Business) (www.aacsb.edu) and AMBA (www.mbaworld.com).
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Victoria University joins in mourning the passing of Václav Havel, Czech playwright and politican.
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A postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University has received the 2011 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist prize .
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New research challenges the belief that psychopaths are born not made, and suggests psychopaths may even be able to change their spots.
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This year's edition of the online literary journal Turbine features an eclectic mix of new writing by New Zealand literary talent.
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A collection of prose poetry which explores love, science and the imagination, has won the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for 2011.
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Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduate Gillian Claridge says the task of learning to read in another language could be made a lot easier.
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Sione Paea from Tonga will be graduating with a PhD in Mathematics from Victoria University on Tuesday, with his wife and four children proudly looking on.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Almost 1000 students, including 45 PhDs, will next week celebrate successfully completing their studies at Victoria University of Wellington's December Graduation ceremonies and procession.
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A discovery by a Victoria University PhD graduate could help contribute to new cancer drugs.
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Ian McKinnon, QSO, JP, was re-elected Chancellor of Victoria University for 2012 at a meeting of the University Council held on 5 December.
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More Victoria staff and recent Victoria graduates than ever before will be part of Writers and Readers Week for the biennial New Zealand International Arts Festival.
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A relationship drama set in early 1990s Dublin, has won a Victoria University of Wellington student the annual David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting.
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On 6 December an impressive carved gateway marking the entrance to Victoria University’s Te Herenga Waka Marae will be unveiled.
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The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) annual conference at Victoria next week will explore the idea of 'contact' in the world of art.
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New research shows populations of an invasive species of ants frequently collapse without human involvement, potentially saving millions of dollars on control and eradication.
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Victoria University will confer an honorary degree on Dr Takirirangi Clarence Smith, a master carver in Maori carving.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A heritage building within Christchurch's inner city High Street precinct is to be saved in the same manner a Victoria University student had suggested in his fourth-year architecture assignment.
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We have to come up with a new way of understanding the current global crisis, says a Victoria University professor.
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Researchers at Victoria University’s Faculty of Law have completed a new study into how bills have been put through Parliament using urgency and say too often the provision is being abused.
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Some of the top minds in sociology will gather at Victoria next month to ask the big questions that face humanity after a tumultuous start to the 21st century.
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Two Victoria researchers were awarded honours from the Royal Society of New Zealand on Wednesday night.
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World renowned linguist Professor Bernard Spolsky will be keynote speaker at an upcoming symposium 'Building a multilingual society: creating habitats for language survival', focusing on the survival of Maori and Pasifika languages.
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Victoria University has announced its two latest Hunter Fellows, who will be recognised in a ceremony in Victoria’s iconic Hunter Building this month.
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Keen to learn directly from world experts like Professor Sir Paul Callaghan and Professor Peter Barrett? The five week Contemporary Issues in Science & Society course begins on 14 November and will explore some of the most relevant science issues in society.
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The latest CD release from the New Zealand String Quartet, who are the New Zealand School of Music Artists in Residence, last week won the Tui for Best Classical Album at the annual Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) has a special involvement in the StarJam 'All You Need Is Love' show at St James Theatre, Wellington on Friday 11 November.
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One of New Zealand's best writers for young adults will be the 2012 Writer in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Using viruses and bacteria that normally cause disease to cure disease is an apparent contradiction, but it’s fundamental to the work being carried out by Dr David Ackerley.
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Dr Stephen Blumenfeld, Director of Victoria University’s Industrial Relations Centre, on the Qantas dispute.
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Victoria University joins with the New Zealand community to commemorate the outstanding contribution of economist and policy adviser Sir Frank Holmes, who sadly passed away today.
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Victoria University experts on whether winning the Rugby World Cup really makes a difference to the election and our national identity.
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Baby fish may be able to resist ocean currents and influence how and where they move, says a Victoria University researcher, although he is yet to work out how they do it.
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Professor Matt Visser will be exploring some of the mysteries of the universe next year.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Two Victoria University experts will give free public lectures on the architecture of the Beehive and the future of MMP in Wellington next week.
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Professor Donald Maurice has been invited to give the first performance in Germany of Requiem 'The Holocaust' by Israeli composer, Boris Pigovat.
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WELLINGTON — Are Wellington organisations prepared for the big one? A one-day Forum, 'Organisational effectiveness in times of seismic risk', about how Wellington organisations can learn from the recent earthquakes in Canterbury, is being held on 18 October.
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Victoria University researchers have achieved yet again in the highly competitive Marsden Fund that funds research excellence in a range of areas.
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Professor Peter Barrett from Victoria University has been recognised by the world’s oldest geological society for his work on Antarctica’s climate history and appreciating its global significance.
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