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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.
A Victoria University graduate is off to Cambridge next year after winning a prestigious scholarship.
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In a contest that went down to the wire the Victoria University team has been awarded third place at the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, just a few points behind the winner.
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Professor Matt Visser, from the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, has been awarded one of four prestigious James Cook Research Fellowships providing funding of $110,000 a year for two years.
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Solar cells that are incorporated into roofing materials and provide all the energy used in a home or office building could become an affordable option in New Zealand within a decade says a leading researcher in the field.
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About 2000 final-year students at Victoria have been approached to take part in a world-first study of graduates.
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Effective marketing to Asia requires advertising that is tailored to each individual country rather than a 'one-size-fits-all' approach, according to the research findings of Victoria University's Professor of Marketing Kim Fam.
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New Zealand bucks the trend when it comes to links between temperature at the time of conception and the sex of babies.
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Professor Sir Paul Callaghan has written a business plan for New Zealand - and it doesn't include winning the World Cup.
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Zealand’s profile as a potential co-host of the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope has been boosted with the appointment of a leading Victoria University scientist to the SKA Board.
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Media hype around big sporting events draws the crowds says a Victoria University researcher, but too much of it could turn events like Rugby World Cup games into a circus.
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A New Zealand School of Music student will perform at the Sydney Opera House as a finalist in the 2011 IFAC Australian Singing Competition.
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One of the most atrocious acts of World War Two, and a dark day in New Zealand history, will both be commemorated in a major concert in Wellington this month.
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First prize in the 2011 New Zealand School of Music Composers Competition has gone to MMA student Tristan Carter for his composition Attacus atlas.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Professor Sir Paul Callaghan delivered Victoria University's Inaugural Chancellor's Lecture to 1500 people in the Wellington Town Hall on 14 September.
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Instability in Asia would have an impact on New Zealand and we should be paying more attention to how changes there could affect our future prosperity and security, a new report says.
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Research has found that some open office layouts designed to enhance creativity may lead to subversive practices as employees seek to stake their territory in various ways.
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WELLINGTON CITY — There is no need to sacrifice time at the beach for study this summer as Victoria University’s most popular online course, Popular Psychology, is making a comeback.
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WELLINGTON CITY — On Friday the night sky over Wellington came alive, with lights being beamed across the city.
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The Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand (GLSNZ)—a large-scale survey designed to determine the ongoing impact of a university education on graduates’ lives—is being launched at Victoria University next week.
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At the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, science was mocked by poets - but there was also reverence and respect, says a Victoria University Professor of English Literature.
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Work by Victoria University students and alumni will feature prominently among New Zealand writing at an event that every year attracts three times the visitors expected for the Rugby World Cup.
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Victoria University researchers have scooped three of this year's Rutherford Discovery Fellowships.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A free public lecture by Fulbright alumnus and University of Otago academic Professor Robert Patman will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorism attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Three 'straight A' students from Victoria University's School of Government were awarded special Prime Minister's Prizes by Deputy Prime Minister Hon Bill English last night.
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Elite athletes with bionic implants, built-in chips to monitor their performance and shirts embedded with nanotechnology medicines to heal minor injuries could be taking the field for the 2051 Rugby World Cup.
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An artwork protesting against the deaths of Iraqi civilian casualties, devised by a Victoria University academic and his US collaborator, is currently showing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Educational researchers, assessment experts and educators will be meeting to discuss national standards and educational assessment practices at a national symposium this week.
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Research at Victoria University is targeting new drugs to fight drug-resistant and other forms of tuberculosis (TB).
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What does modern day New Zealand have in common with ancient Rome? More than you might think, according to two of Victoria University's most well-known and popular lecturers.
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New Zealand businesses have a positive attitude both towards expanding internationally and the support they get from government agencies to do it, says a Victoria University professor.
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A Victoria University scientist has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to win a prestigious international prize for outstanding PhD research in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) field.
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Victoria University is hosting the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) benchmarking conference this week.
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Victoria University has unveiled plans for a leading-edge study programme that will support innovation and growth in Wellington's internationally recognised entertainment and digital technologies industries.
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New figures from the IRD showing a sustained increase in expat graduates paying off their student loans is great news according to the founder of the Heroic Educated Kiwi Expatriate (HEKE) campaign.
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Fate drove Rose Ausländer, one of the greatest women poets of the 20th century, halfway around the world.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Highly acclaimed US poet Joy Harjo is being brought to Wellington by Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) this month.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealander of the Year and renowned scientist Professor Sir Paul Callaghan will deliver Victoria University’s Inaugural Chancellor’s Lecture next month.
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Professor Kevin Gould has been recognised as one of New Zealand's top teachers.
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A Victoria University academic is calling for accounting standards to be written in more concise English, as the international accounting community prepares to converge its regulation with US standards.
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Professor Pat Walsh, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University, is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Paul Reynolds as Chair of Victoria's School of Government Advisory Board.
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Marine biologist Professor Jonathan Gardner is heading to the UK as a visiting professor to provide his expertise on managing marine reserves.
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It will be a homecoming of sorts next month for Victoria University’s 2011 Ian Gordon Fellow Professor Jack Richards, an internationally renowned specialist in second and foreign language teaching.
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WELLINGTON — Researchers at Victoria University are uncovering new knowledge about the relationship between people and wildlife and the benefits that could result from good management of the interaction.
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A leading foreign policy expert says it's time for New Zealanders to think more broadly about this country's engagement with trading and security partners in Asia.
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The world is cautiously emerging from a global recession, which has led to a new and genuine scrutiny of the international economic system.
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Studying something that his children’s children may never see adds a certain urgency and poignancy to Simon Davy’s daily routine.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Is public television a luxury New Zealand can't afford? Or is it a crucial ingredient to a healthy and prosperous democracy? A public forum at Victoria University on Wednesday will seek to provide some answers to those questions, and map out a future for public television.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Banks could save money and reduce customer frustration by better matching services to technology customers use says a Victoria University researcher.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University, Professor Pat Walsh, today announced the appointment of Peter Hughes, current Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development, to Head of Victoria's School of Government.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria scientists are combining their expertise with collaborators at universities around New Zealand to come up with faster, more flexible and more affordable ways of developing software.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Law has always been an important part of New Zealand identity according to legal academic Professor Geoff McLay.
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Research at Victoria University could contribute to new treatments for the costly and sometimes fatal condition of fly strike in sheep.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Many of New Zealand's top legal minds over the last four decades have been shaped by Professor David McLauchlan from Victoria University's Faculty of Law.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Organisations that offer their employees higher levels of trust, cooperation, fairness and economic benefits are rewarded with increased productivity, according to research by a Victoria University Economics Professor.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Lots of businesses know they should be active in social media like Facebook and Twitter and research by a Victoria University PhD graduate has explained why.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A machine that automatically sorts M&M chocolates into their different colours is the brainchild of one of Victoria’s first Engineering graduates.
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WELLINGTON CITY — A project proposing to make honey from mangroves for the Wayuu indigenous tribe in Colombia was judged the winner at the 2011 Global Enterprise Experience ANZ Champion Team Awards.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Many organisations are under prepared for the loss of valuable knowledge as the oldest members of the baby boomer generation near retirement.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Board of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology is delighted to announce that Associate Professor Kathryn McGrath has been appointed as Director of the institute, to succeed the outgoing Director, Professor Richard Blaikie.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Pacific Island people can look to the past for ways of reducing health issues arising from unhealthy eating, says a Victoria University PhD graduate.
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WELLINGTON CITY — What are the financial implications of an ageing population? Is government expenditure on welfare sustainable? And what does global public debt mean for New Zealand? A new Chair in Public Finance, launched at Victoria last week, will consider these issues and more.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Some of New Zealand's most outstanding new teaching talent will be acknowledged on Tuesday night as Victoria University celebrates its brightest graduates from the Faculty of Education.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Most New Zealand students relate more easily to Kiwi business examples such as Trade Me and Kiwi Experience than to a Boeing factory in Seattle.
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KARORI SANCTUARY — An agreement between Victoria University and ZEALANDIA: The Karori Sanctuary Experience, will foster greater research collaboration between the two organisations.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Scientist and climate change expert Dr James Hansen will speak on human-made climate change as a moral, political and legal issue at a public lecture on Monday 16 May hosted by Victoria University's Institute of Policy Studies.
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WELLINGTON — A prominent New Zealand historian has been appointed to one of the top jobs in the world in his field.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre recently hosted the launch of a book edited by Senior Italian lecturer Marco Sonzogni that analyses visual representations of the Holocaust.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Toronto-based composer Juliet Palmer is coming full-circle in returning to her homeland in late July to take up the Creative New Zealand - Jack C Richards Composer in Residence at Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music.
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WELLINGTON — Portable seismographs will be installed at 900 locations in the lower North Island as part of a field study that will help scientists better understand earthquake hazards in the region.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Puertas Quartet, comprising of couples from the New Zealand and London Symphony Orchestras will present string quartet works in the next Hunter Concert on Thursday 5 May.
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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealander of the Year Professor Sir Paul Callaghan will speak in Christchurch next week about his appeal to expat Kiwi graduates to pay back their student loans to assist with the earthquake recovery.
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WELLINGTON — A Kiwi bach powered entirely by the sun’s rays has attracted the attention of New Zealand’s largest state owned electricity generator.
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WELLINGTON — Scientific research is known to happen slowly but the timeframes pale into insignificance compared to the years spent on some of the great unsolved Maths problems.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Professor of Art History Geoffrey Batchen says it's time to rethink the significance of all those old photographs in family albums, in boxes under the bed—or posted on our Facebook page.
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WELLINGTON — Researchers in New Zealand and Australia have been donated a high performance computing facility by IBM, boosting their chances of a successful bid for the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope.
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The changes needed before New Zealand is using its fair share of the earth's resources are far greater than most people realise say two Victoria University sustainability researchers.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Professor Sir Paul Callaghan's appeal to expat Kiwi graduates to make a significant contribution to the Christchurch earthquake recovery mission by paying back their student loans has begun a national debate about the student loan system.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Victoria Deaf Studies student Evelyn Pateman has been providing crucial assistance to New Zealand's deaf community during the television coverage of the Christchurch earthquake.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Staff at the Geophysics Institute, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University are dismayed at yesterday's devastating earthquake in Christchurch.
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Research that will improve understanding of how climate change will impact on New Zealand’s glaciers and enable more accurate planning for water resource and tourism management in the South Island is being turbocharged.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria's new Hall of Residence at 132 The Terrace has been officially named the Joan Stevens Hall.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University’s new Alan MacDiarmid building is in the running for an award after being the first in New Zealand to use new earthquake strengthening technology.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The universe is expanding faster and faster but it is because of a mysterious force called dark energy or a break down in Einstein’s theory of relativity? Next Wednesday, a leading astronomer will explore why the universe is expanding at a Victoria University public lecture.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University Master of Science student Peter Clark has been awarded a prestigious Woolf Fisher Scholarship, enabling him to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
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National and international groups are getting behind a student led team from Victoria University who will take a solar powered Kiwi bach to the United States.
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WELLINGTON CITY — From 2011 Victoria University will have 241 more accommodation places to offer students after securing the lease for a soon to be refurbished building on the Terrace.
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A digital 'pet' developed by Victoria University researchers, has won first prize at an international electronic language festival.
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One in six Maori now live in Australia, but struggle to maintain te reo Maori there, according to recent Victoria University research.
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Two major funded works in Maori have recently been completed by researchers and staff at Victoria University's Law Faculty, following two years of hard work.
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WELLINGTON — Record label Flying Nun is explored visually along with other independent music labels in New Zealand in the next exhibition at Adam Art Gallery.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Understanding China is essential for the future of New Zealand, according to a businessman who has funded a new scholarship at Victoria University.
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A plan for Kenyan villages to create cosmetics out of a grain has been judged the winner of the 2010 Global Enterprise Experience.
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The delicate dynamics within stepfamilies are the subject of simultaneous Victoria and Massey University studies funded by the Families Commission.
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A contemporary couch design by a Victoria lecturer in Interior Architecture harks back to days of old, when furniture was handed down through the generations.
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WELLINGTON — An academic legal research team recovering information about the decisions of this country's mid-19th century Supreme Court discovered an episode of barristers behaving particularly badly.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Viclink, the commercialisation partner of Victoria University of Wellington, has announced an exciting clean technology project called Wetox.
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WELLINGTON — Many Wellingtonians might not be able to cope if a natural hazard such as a major earthquake strikes, according to research by Victoria University PhD graduate Shabana Khan.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University PhD research could ultimately result in the creation of orthopaedic implants made of material that is eventually replaced by bone.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Professor Sir Peter Gluckman will tackle the controversial issue of climate change denial as part of a seminar series focusing on key policy challenges facing New Zealand.
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The University's Law School is to be the focus of a new, weekly TVNZ 7 programme starting in July, The Court Report.
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