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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.
WELLINGTON — Scientists are one step closer to understanding how to design effective anti-tumour vaccines, due to PhD research by a recent Victoria University graduate.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University staff and students made almost a clean sweep of prizes at last week's Sustainable Building Conference held in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Political scientist Kate McMillan from Victoria University says much is at stake in the 2011 electoral referendum.
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Victoria University research has found that a small sea snail may be causing significant damage to coral reefs in the Pacific, even more so than climate change or coral bleaching.
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WELLINGTON — To ensure scientific research can continue following the devastating earthquake in Chile, Victoria University is offering six four-month fellowships to Chilean scientists.
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A video starring three Masters students from the Faculty of Commerce and Administration beat 12 universities in an international competition held in Las Vegas recently.
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PhD graduate Laura Dimock spent nine months on an island in Vanuatu documenting the Nahavaq language, a previously undocumented language in danger of extinction.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Performing a forgotten Elizabethan script has been like discovering Pompeii body casts for the first time, according to Victoria University Theatre students.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand's very first Doctor in Creative Writing will graduate from Victoria University next week.
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WELLINGTON CITY — They say that to replay the past is to come to terms with it.
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WELLINGTON — Employers need a focus on human capability to ensure their workers are happy and their organisation is productive long term, according to Victoria University research.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Fatherhood can transform anti-social young men into responsible citizens, according to new research commissioned by Victoria's Institute of Policy Studies.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria University and Industrial Research Limited (IRL) are working to foster entrepreneurial and commercial skills among New Zealand’s emerging scientists.
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WELLINGTON — Over the school holidays, the School of Biological Sciences hosted the top 19 biology students in the country as they competed to represent New Zealand at the International Biology Olympiad in Busan, Korea this July.
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WELLINGTON — Innovative research resulting in millions of export earnings for New Zealand has landed Victoria University physicist Professor Sir Paul Callaghan a major international award.
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WELLINGTON — A Kiwi bach powered by the sun is to be built for a major international competition and exhibited a stone’s throw from the White House in the US capital.
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WELLINGTON — Justice has just got a whole lot closer for those who need it in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The new co-leader of the Green Party Metiria Turei will open a seminar series exploring the opportunities and challenges faced by a new generation in New Zealand politics.
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WELLINGTON CITY — An expert on organ and tissue donation says that cultural sensitivity is sometimes believed to be behind New Zealand's startlingly low rates of deceased organ donation, but the issues are more complex.
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WELLINGTON — Professor Sir Paul Callaghan has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand (IPENZ) in recognition of his eminent contribution to application of engineering or technology in the community.
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WELLINGTON — It is with great sadness that Victoria University learnt of the death of Sir Ian Axford FRS, Hon FRSNZ, a former Vice-Chancellor and an honorary graduate of Victoria University.
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Victoria University's 2010 JD Stout Fellow will explore the contribution of Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany, among other war-time immigrants, to New Zealand's national identity and culture.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Some of Australasia's leading experts on imprisonment and justice are to debate the issues as New Zealand looks for new approaches to incarceration.
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Victoria University PhD student John Watt has received a Prime Minister’s Science Prize, New Zealand’s most valuable science awards.
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Kiwi expatriates living overseas who plan to return home will do so because of New Zealand's lifestyle, according to a new study of expatriates.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Over 100 instruments will come together when an Argentinean orchestra combining indigenous instruments and digital technology plays in Wellington this Saturday.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Victoria has proved to be the university of choice for New Zealand’s best and brightest as a high proportion of top secondary school scholars begin their studies at the University.
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A Victoria University student’s mission to improve sustainability in New Zealand tourism has been helped along with a recent scholarship.
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A building design commemorating the Wahine Disaster has earned a Victoria University Architecture student second prize in an international competition.
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WELLINGTON — Research by Victoria University PhD graduate Anasuya Vishvanath into infantile haemangioma, or strawberry birthmarks, suggests that stem cells play an important role in the growth of these common infant tumours.
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As the book ``Poles Apart’’ gets its first international publishing contract, The Morgan Family Charitable Foundation has donated $250,000 to Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) through the Victoria University Foundation.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University's renowned creative writing programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters now offers a PhD.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University Museum and Heritage Studies student Reuben Schrader has been tasked with working through a collection of ceramics that were dumped in Wellington more than 100 years ago.
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WELLINGTON — Three Victoria University PhD students have been awarded Top Doctoral Achiever Scholarships at an average value of $99,300.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University will next month host New Zealand's first academic conference for Maori social scientists, aimed at inspiring and catalysing a network of Maori social scientists.
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WELLINGTON — The University is calling for an extremely busy pedestrian crossing in Wallace St, Wellington, to be controlled with traffic lights after student was hit by a truck and seriously injured this morning.
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A slight warming of water beneath the Antarctic ice shelves can speed the flow of ice to the ocean and accelerate rising sea levels, says a prominent geophysicist who will give a free public lecture on the topic on May 20.
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A new television show hosted by Professor Paul Callaghan, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, will examine the driving factors behind New Zealand’s future economic growth.
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WELLINGTON — Six Victoria students have been awarded scholarships from Freemasons New Zealand in the 31st year of university scholarships awarded by the organisation.
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WELLINGTON — Going into the Brancepeth Station Library was like suddenly being in the 19th century for Professor Lydia Wevers - someone had literally walked out the door 100 years ago and left it there.
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WELLINGTON — More than 1960 new graduates of Victoria University will procession through inner-city Wellington over three days of graduation ceremonies from Wednesday this week.
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WELLINGTON — Proof-reading each other's essays and critiquing the occasional idea has paid off for Emma Jellicoe and her mother, Joan Gentle.
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Christine Walsh isn't just celebrating her PhD graduation this week - she also led the landmark case against Pharmac's decision to not fund 12 months of Herceptin for breast cancer patients.
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WELLINGTON — The Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Pat Walsh, today announced the appointment of Peter Hughes, Chief Executive of the Ministry of Social Development, as chair of the School of Government's advisory board.
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WELLINGTON — More than 60 books on the history, culture, ideas, arts and religion of Iran were donated to Victoria University by the Iranian Government.
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WELLINGTON — Dr Dale Carnegie has been appointed as Professor in Engineering—a new Chair and a strategic initiative for the Faculty of Engineering.
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WAIRARAPA — Thinking about how modernisation and urban sprawl have affected the central belt - the gap between the metropolitan areas of Scottish cities Edinburgh and Glasgow - is how student Daniel Davis spent his holidays.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University 300-level theatre students tackle Jacobean city comedy in the New Zealand premiere of John Webster and Thomas Dekker's 1605 play 'Northward Ho!'
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Professor of Philosophy, Kim Sterelny, is off to France this week as recipient of the prestigious Jean-Nicod Prize for 2008.
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Victoria University Professor of History, James Belich, will next week explain why English speaking societies grew much faster than others in the long 19th century.
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WELLINGTON — The validity of theories about reasoning will be addressed in Professor Edwin Mares' inaugural professorial lecture next week.
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WELLINGTON — Victoria University will present honorary doctorates to political journalist Colin James and musician Richard Nunns this year.
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WELLINGTON — The recently appointed Senior Research Fellow in Cyberlaw at Victoria University's Law Faculty is to work in the area of privacy law.
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WELLINGTON — The annual rugby match between Hawkes Bay school Te Aute College and Victoria University for the J T Pickett Cup was held last week at the Prince of Wales Park in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON — A senior lecturer at Victoria University’s Law Faulty is organising a timely and targeted conference on human rights in the Pacific.
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WELLINGTON — New Olympic athlete Tash Hind shares her thoughts on study and swimming in the lead up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
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WELLINGTON — Is there such a thing as a high-tech business model in New Zealand? If so, what are the implications for aspiring firms and for policy?
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WELLINGTON — The unique qualities of Antarctica as well as the issues currently facing the continent and the Southern Ocean will be explored from several angles in a series of three panel discussions to start tonight.
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