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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.

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Education 4 Oct 2011
Victoria graduate awarded Woolf Fisher Scholarship

A Victoria University graduate is off to Cambridge next year after winning a prestigious scholarship.

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Energy 3 Oct 2011
Kiwi bach takes third place in US Solar Decathlon

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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News 30 Sep 2011
Victoria Professor wins James Cook Research Fellowship

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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Energy 28 Sep 2011
Sunshine the energy of the future

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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News 26 Sep 2011
World-first study underway at Victoria University

About 2000 final-year students at Victoria have been approached to take part in a world-first study of graduates.

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Advertising 26 Sep 2011
Local values and religious beliefs important when advertising in Asia

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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Science 22 Sep 2011
More baby girls in cold weather? More boys when it's warm? Not in New Zealand

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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News 22 Sep 2011
Making New Zealand a place where talent wants to live

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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Science 22 Sep 2011
Appointment strengthens NZ involvement in $3 billion science project

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 20 Sep 2011
Sport a media spectacle

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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Music 19 Sep 2011
Stellar opportunity for rising operatic star

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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Music 19 Sep 2011
In Remembrance – facing conflict through music

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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Music 19 Sep 2011
Music of 'fevered ferocity' wins NZSM composition prize

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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News 16 Sep 2011
Chancellor's Lecture video - Professor Sir Paul Callaghan

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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Economy 15 Sep 2011
Growing pains in Asia - and what it means for New Zealand

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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Employment 15 Sep 2011
Open office design leads to territorial behaviour

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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Education 14 Sep 2011
What makes people tick? Find out this summer

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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News 12 Sep 2011
Lights over Victoria

WELLINGTON CITY — On Friday the night sky over Wellington came alive, with lights being beamed across the city.

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News 12 Sep 2011
World-first survey launches at Victoria

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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Science 12 Sep 2011
Alexander Pope and the poetry of science

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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Books 8 Sep 2011
Victoria's creative talent takes international stage

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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News 8 Sep 2011
Victoria University researchers scoop prestigious awards

Victoria University researchers have scooped three of this year's Rutherford Discovery Fellowships.

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News 8 Sep 2011
Fulbright alumni lectures to mark anniversary of 9/11

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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News 7 Sep 2011
Best and brightest awarded Government prizes

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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Rugby 6 Sep 2011
Robots may dominate rugby by 2050

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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Art 31 Aug 2011
Hidden messages in artwork acknowledge Iraqi deaths

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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Education 30 Aug 2011
Education symposium to discuss national standards and assessment practices

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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Health 30 Aug 2011
Discovering new drugs to fight TB

Research at Victoria University is targeting new drugs to fight drug-resistant and other forms of tuberculosis (TB).

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Rugby 26 Aug 2011
Winning the World Cup – what do the All Blacks have in common with ancient gladiators?

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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Business 25 Aug 2011
New Zealand has healthy entrepreneurial culture

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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Science 22 Aug 2011
Victoria scientist wins prestigious international prize

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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News 22 Aug 2011
Victoria hosts ACU benchmarking conference

Victoria University is hosting the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) benchmarking conference this week.

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Technology 18 Aug 2011
Victoria initiative supports growth in screen and digital industries

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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Finance 17 Aug 2011
HEKE: Expats paying off loans

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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Art 12 Aug 2011
Rose Ausländer, "Mutterland Wort" – "Motherland Word": Exhibition, Workshop, Competition

Fate drove Rose Ausländer, one of the greatest women poets of the 20th century, halfway around the world.

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Entertainment 11 Aug 2011
US poet Joy Harjo to bring storytelling magic to Wellington

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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Economy 11 Aug 2011
Inaugural Chancellor's Lecture—Professor Sir Paul Callaghan

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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Education 4 Aug 2011
Victoria Professor wins teaching award

Professor Kevin Gould has been recognised as one of New Zealand's top teachers.

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Education 3 Aug 2011
Victoria professor advocates simplified accounting standards

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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News 2 Aug 2011
Victoria University appoints new Chair to School of Government Advisory Board

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 18 Jul 2011
Victoria marine biologist providing expertise to UK

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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Education 15 Jul 2011
Ian Gordon Fellow expert on English language teaching

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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Environment 13 Jul 2011
Helping people and wildlife live together

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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Economy 11 Jul 2011
Beyond interest: deepening our engagement with Asia

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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Economy 6 Jul 2011
Finding consensus following the crisis

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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Science 23 Jun 2011
Keeping corals alive

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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Media 21 Jun 2011
Is there a future for public television in New Zealand

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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Finance 13 Jun 2011
Electronic banking frustrating for customers

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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Government 7 Jun 2011
Peter Hughes appointed Victoria's Head of School of Government

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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Technology 3 Jun 2011
Smarter software development

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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Legal 1 Jun 2011
Exploring New Zealand's legal identity

WELLINGTON CITY — Law has always been an important part of New Zealand identity according to legal academic Professor Geoff McLay.

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Agriculture 27 May 2011
New knowledge could combat fly strike in sheep

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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Legal 27 May 2011
Shaping New Zealand's top legal minds for 40 years

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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Economy 24 May 2011
Trust and fairness increases productivity

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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Internet 21 May 2011
Social media a powerful selling tool

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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Technology 19 May 2011
M&M sorter showcases skills of engineering graduates

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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Food 18 May 2011
Proposal to make honey from mangroves wins student business competition

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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Employment 18 May 2011
Study examines workplace risk of losing baby boomers' expertise

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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Science 18 May 2011
New Director for MacDiarmid Institute

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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Health 16 May 2011
Traditional Pacific Island lifestyle inspiration for healthy living

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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Finance 16 May 2011
Contributing to finance policy

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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Education 14 May 2011
Brightest teaching talent recognised

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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Business 12 May 2011
University adds Kiwi flavour to American textbook

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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Conservation 12 May 2011
Victoria University researchers team up with ZEALANDIA

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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Environment 11 May 2011
Climate expert Dr James Hansen: public lecture Monday 16 May

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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Education 10 May 2011
New Zealand historian to take up leading role at Oxford University

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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Books 9 May 2011
Holocaust victims remembered at book launch

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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Music 9 May 2011
New NZSM Composer in Residence

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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Earthquakes 6 May 2011
Field study will reveal more about Wellington earthquake risk

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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Classical 3 May 2011
2011 Hunter Concert Series: The Puertas Quartet

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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Finance 3 May 2011
Sir Paul takes appeal to Christchurch

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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Energy 29 Apr 2011
A new burst of energy for Victoria's Solar Decathlon team

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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Science 29 Apr 2011
Tackling the big unanswered problems

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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News 18 Apr 2011
Photographs—reminders of our mortality

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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Technology 13 Apr 2011
Supercomputer to boost SKA chances

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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Business 7 Apr 2011
Eco bling not enough

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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Finance 4 Apr 2011
Professor Sir Paul Callaghan's appeal to Kiwi expats starts a national debate

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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Disability 28 Feb 2011
Victoria student provides crucial service for deaf community in aftermath of earthquake

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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Earthquakes 23 Feb 2011
Victoria experts on Christchurch Earthquake

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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Science 8 Nov 2010
Fast treatment for glacier modelling

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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Education 1 Nov 2010
Joan Stevens Hall

WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria's new Hall of Residence at 132 The Terrace has been officially named the Joan Stevens Hall.

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Architecture 22 Oct 2010
Alan MacDiarmid Building up for Engineering Excellence Award

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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Science 21 Oct 2010
Leading astronomer to explore dark energy and Einstein

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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Education 19 Oct 2010
Victoria student heading to Oxford with a Woolf Fisher Scholarship

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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Technology 2 Sep 2010
Support builds for Kiwi solar bach

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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Accommodation 31 Aug 2010
New accommodation complex for Victoria students

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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Science 18 Aug 2010
Digital 'pet' gains international acclaim

A digital 'pet' developed by Victoria University researchers, has won first prize at an international electronic language festival.

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Maori 2 Aug 2010
Te reo struggles in Australia

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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Maori 26 Jul 2010
Major legal Maori projects completed in time for Maori Language Week

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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Art 23 Jul 2010
The impending tsunami of the digital download

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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Education 23 Jul 2010
Raising young people's understanding of China

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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Business 26 Jun 2010
Turning African grain into cosmetics wins international competition

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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Health 26 Jun 2010
Dynamics of blended families under scrutiny

The delicate dynamics within stepfamilies are the subject of simultaneous Victoria and Massey University studies funded by the Families Commission.

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Business 21 Jun 2010
Revisiting age old concepts in design

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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Legal 21 Jun 2010
Barristers behaving badly – and other legal history

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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Waste 14 Jun 2010
Wetox turns rivers of sludge into profitable revenue streams

WELLINGTON CITY — Viclink, the commercialisation partner of Victoria University of Wellington, has announced an exciting clean technology project called Wetox.

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Earthquakes 11 Jun 2010
Are we prepared for the Big One?

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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Science 10 Jun 2010
Research another step towards orthopaedic implants made from shell

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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Environment 9 Jun 2010
Climate change denial tackled by Sir Peter Gluckman

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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Legal 8 Jun 2010
Law School to feature on weekly TV programme

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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