Massey University
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Massey University is one of New Zealand's leading educational institutions with three campuses in the North Island and a distance learning programme that delivers university qualifications to all parts of the country.
TARANAKI — A Massey University researcher has found that less data, not more, is desirable when it comes to the study of genetic demography.
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AUCKLAND CITY — College of Creative Arts students and graduates have won 11 gold pins in this year's Designers Institute BeST Design Awards.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Young people are reading less and failing to build vocabulary amid a sea of text messaging and cyber chat, says literacy and child development specialist Professor Tom Nicholson.
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WELLINGTON — Forgetfulness is a minor affliction that affects nearly everyone, making Professor Janet Leathem’s public lecture on the subject on Thursday a date to remember.
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Prices for methamphetamine are on the increase, at the same time a notorious drug identified with the 1960s, LSD, could be making a comeback new research has found.
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Inventions by two young designers from Massey's College of Creative Arts are among just 20 worldwide that are shortlisted for an international design prize.
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A complete brand makeover for a natural health practitioners' group has won four Albany design students a $5000 first prize in the yMedia design challenge.
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AUCKLAND — The appointment of directors to run Super City services is a blow to local democracy and the unelected roles should be interim until they can go before the new Auckland Council, says a local government specialist.
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Conservation biologist Luis Ortiz-Catedral is going to the Galapagos Islands to help save one of the rarest birds in the world, the critically endangered Floreana mockingbird.
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Professor Simon Hall, a professor of electrochemistry and director of Massey's Anzode Research Centre, has won this year's Bayer Innovators Award for research and development.
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Former Massey University Professor, Ian Warrington, has been made a Fellow of the International Society for Horticultural Science at the society's Horticultural Congress General Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal, today.
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AUCKLAND CITY — New Zealand’s most innovative food products will be easily identifiable in the future, with the introduction of the new Food Awards mark.
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The University is proposing significant enhancements to the structure of its shared services for students and academic staff under the "One University" model.
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Professor Kevin Stafford has been made a fellow of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists.
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The western world’s complex relationship with alcohol is the subject of a conference organised by the University's Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) Centre on Thursday at Te Papa in Wellington.
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A dip in the number of high-growth enterprises indicates a need to rethink how to support this sector, says the director of the University’s Small to Medium Enterprise Research Centre.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — A navigation specialist in the School of Aviation has been honoured by the Royal Aeronautical Society for his long and dedicated service to the industry.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — University researchers working with Horizons Regional Council will combine stakeholder perspectives with current science to help create a management plan to protect and enhance the Manawatu River catchment.
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A Massey researcher is a step closer to developing a vaccine for a common form of skin cancer in cats.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The emergency management response to some of the world’s most devastating disasters of the past 18 months is the subject of a university-led conference at Te Papa, Wellington, from tomorrow.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Designing a new Super City logo design, creating a car, reading the news in a simulated television studio or playing an investment game are just some of the hands-on activities at the Albany campus open day on Saturday.
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New research suggests the whopping pay packets of many chief executives may not only be justified but vital to ensure business success.
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GORE — Third-year Welllington fashion design student Candice Fulton, 20, has triumphed in two separate categories of the Hokonui Fashion Awards.
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A business governance specialist says the prosecution of individual directors in the Feltex case will sound warning bells for all company directors, who now realise they could be charged individually in relation to any perceived collective failure by boards on which they sit.
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Creating a “conveyor belt” from university into industry would help keep talented graduates in this country and is one of the keys to growing the economy, says Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey.
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A senior lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies and accomplished playwright, Dr Angie Farrow, has won a $20,000 national tertiary teaching excellence award.
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Winners of the University's second annual Ngä Kupu Ora Mäori Book Awards have been decided by public vote and include a Massey PhD candidate, a internationally-renowned author and a book commemorating the Taranaki land wars.
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Carl Sanders-Edwards’ entrepreneurial skills have seen him go from selling marmalade in Australia to advising some of the world's biggest companies.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A research project to test whether exercise makes the adolescent brain function better has won this year's Albany campus School Science Symposium.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — The aviation industry needs to show it offers good value for money in the face of a Government review of funding for pilot training, University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey told an industry conference in Palmerston North today.
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The College of Business has strengthened its expertise in international business with the appointment of a specialist in Asian and emerging markets.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Manawatu campus students Jasmine Robertson, Courtney Denton-Giles and Lisa Wong took top honours at this year’s Miss Manawatu pageant in Palmerston North, judged first, second, and third, respectively.
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University staff and students are being encouraged to order their coffee in Mäori, with pamphlets published and distributed on all three campuses carrying the terms in English and Mäori and an online site where the terms can be listened to for correct pronunciation.
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A boot designed by a Massey graduate to reduce the incidence of wakeboarding injuries has won this year's coveted James Dyson Award.
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AUCKLAND — A conservation researcher's success in eradicating rats using half the standard amount of poison suggests pest control could be achieved at half the cost and half the environmental impact.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Academics and practitioners from across New Zealand and Australia will gather next week to review the latest developments in aviation safety, management, technology and education.
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Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey will host an on-line student forum tomorrow where he will answer questions about all aspects of the University, including fees, enrolment policies and the impact of changes to Government funding.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — The University's Centre for Defence and Security Studies will offer postgraduate diploma studies to members of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces under a three-year contract expected to earn several hundred thousand dollars.
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Voting for excellence in Mäori publishing will lead activities at Te Kunenga ki Pürehuroa (Massey University) to mark Te Wiki o Te Reo Mäori (Mäori Language Week) this year.
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Little-known New Zealand filmmaking heroes will feature in a free public lecture by veteran actor, director and writer Ian Mune at the Albany campus on July 21.
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Massey University has signed a $5.2 million contract with the World Bank to provide biosecurity training for public health workers in Asia to recognise and respond to potential epidemic outbreaks – phase one in a deal potentially worth more than $32 million.
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CHRISTCHURCH — An exhibition that opened in Christchurch this week features commemorative silverware, ceremonial honours and presentations bestowed on former Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey and later given to the University named after him by his family.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — New research suggests that being a young mother is not a bad thing for a sheep and may mean ewes have more lambs that are just as healthy than those that are older when first bred.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — This year’s New Zealand Food Awards will celebrate new initiatives in food and beverage and recognise the creative work of innovators across the sector.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — A short film made by two Massey graduates, that this week won an international award, is to be shown at a Mäori alumni event on the Manawatu campus on Monday evening.
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The performance of the All Whites in this year’s FIFA World Cup highlights the importance of developing children’s sporting expertise through effective teaching, according to physical education researcher Dennis Slade.
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A University researcher says there are lessons to be drawn from the Football World Cup in South Africa for developing nations in the Pacific looking to participate in major sports competitions and big events like next year's Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
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Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, the first book by award-winning alumna and a senior tutor in creative writing Tina Dahlberg, will be launched in Wellington tonight.
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Industrial designer Professor Tony Parker’s expertise has been enlisted in the development of a farming product that could revolutionise the process of drafting and weighing sheep.
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WELLINGTON — A lifetime achievement award for services to occupational health was presented to Professor Neil Pearce of Wellington last night.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A "board game on steroids" has won the national final of this year's Global Enterprise Challenge hosted by at the Albany campus this week.
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The spirit of innovation that underpins numerous New Zealand successes – from the agri-food industry to Avatar movie special effects – must become a national characteristic if the country is to advance, Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey says.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Year-12 and year-13 pupils from 25 secondary schools across Auckland poured into lecture theatres for a day of university-style learning at the Albany campus this month.
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WAIKATO — From soils and animal health, farm systems and production methods, to technology-assisted genetic selection, Massey will bring a full range of scientific know-how to this year's National Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Waikato.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Teenagers will be challenged to come up with innovative solutions to a worldwide business issue at the annual International Enterprise in Action event hosted by the University at the Albany campus from Sunday.
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Research projects to be conducted by the University's new School of Public Health have been awarded $3.9 million in funding from the Government's Health Research Council.
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AUCKLAND — Nichola Trudgen's international award-winning design Wanderest, a seat attached to lamp post to provide a public resting place, is one of the array of transport, industrial and visual design works by the Auckland School of Design's 227 students, which will be on display this Friday and Saturday at Albany.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — A Centre for Irish Studies could be established at Massey following the launch of a new fellowship with the University of Ulster.
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Research being carried out at Massey University hopes to find out more about how best to climb a mountain on a bicycle – seated or standing.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — The partners promoting the Manawatu velodrome today released an artists impression of what the facility would look like if built on the Massey University campus at Palmerston North.
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Ten Massey graduates are among this year's recipients of Queen's Birthday Honours, including a recent Chancellor and a current member of the University Council.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Human nutrition should be taught extensively at secondary schools so people from a young age are well informed to make good decisions about their health, diet and lifestyle, says Massey nutrition scientist Professor Bernhard Breier.
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School is replacing the home and church as the main place to learn the Samoan language, a Victoria University Masters student has found.
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WELLINGTON — Twelve Pasifika graduates took part in a colourful and uplifting ceremony held in their honour on Friday night.
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Wellington nuclear physicist Professor Sir Paul Callaghan sees his honorary Doctorate of Science as a “wonderful honour” from the University where he started his academic career.
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Nuclear physicist Professor Sir Paul Callaghan used his speech to a Massey graduation ceremony in Wellington yesterday to attack the Government's proposals to mine conservation land.
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Massey University students Jodi Beaumont and Amber Bellringer have been named in the New Zealand under-21 netball team to play in Australia in July.
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AUCKLAND — Watch the 3News item A three-year study involving a group of children in Auckland's Centrepoint Community from 1977-2000 has revealed the extent of abuse and its ongoing effects on their adult lives.
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Graduating with a university qualification is a world away from Mona Andreas’ origins in war-ravaged Eritrea.
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A new treatment manual developed as part of doctoral research could result in significant improvements and outcomes for Mäori receiving treatment for depression.
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Three Massey students who graduated yesterday have even more reason to celebrate after earning accolades in a category of the Australasian Student Design Awards.
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A reduction in funding for early childhood education announced in last week's Budget will mean cut the quality of services offered in some regions, according to Associate Professor of Early Years Education, Claire McLachlan.
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Research done on cyclists suggests athletes who skip breakfast before training could be at an advantage over those who eat first.
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Scholarships worth more than $300,000 have been awarded to 130 students studying agricultural and horticultural sciences.
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NAPIER — The College of Education is to discontinue delivery of the primary teaching programme from the Ruawharo site in Napier from next year.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Raewyne Bary from the University's Manawatu campus childcare centre is the second staff member in two years to win a Cognition Education Excellence in Leadership regional award from the National Excellence in Teaching Association.
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A presentation on her research into loneliness won an Albany campus psychology student the inaugural Three-Minute Thesis competition yesterday.
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Sport and Exercise Science lecturer Dr Ajmol Ali did not suspect his cholesterol level was any cause for concern.
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Military historian Dr John Moremon has been selected to attend a summer seminar at the prestigious United States military academy West Point, New York, next month.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Research carried out by a Massey PhD student could help chemotherapy drugs work more effectively.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Twenty-two years of ceremonies to honour Mäori graduates at Manawatu were marked this year by reflections on the growth that has occurred in Mäori student numbers and the degrees conferred.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Doctoral scholarship meets New Zealand Idol tomorrow with the final of Massey University’s Three-Minute Thesis competition.
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The number of Pasifika students graduating from the University is predicted to soar from just over 100 this year to around 500 in 2020.
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WELLINGTON — Language and concepts locked in traditional Mäori chants – möteatea – need to be brought out into everyday use, says PhD graduate Wayne Ngata.
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It has been more than 50 years since New Zealand naval personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear testing – but the psychological fallout is only now being realised.
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AUCKLAND — Teachers should beware of the potential to harm caused to children by excessive competition between schools, an Auckland secondary school principal has warned.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Manawatu is uniquely placed to lead New Zealand’s agri-food sector but needs a concerted regional effort to make that happen, says University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey.
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Too little support is available to women who suffer miscarriages, says midwife and academic Dr Cassie Kenney.
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He started out with a teaching degree then switched to geology and the study of volcanoes, now Jonathan Procter (Muaupoko, Ngäi Tahu), is one of a very few Mäori with a PhD in Earth Science.
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Home schooling is a viable alternative to the state schools approach to education, says veteran teacher, former principal and now Doctor of Education Leo Roache.
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A Massey psychology researcher is investigating whether mental health treatment is less effective when the religion or spiritual beliefs of patients are ignored.
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WELLINGTON — Wellington businessman Nigel Gould told graduates to do only what they enjoy in their careers and to take stock of what they have achieved every six months.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Five special awards were presented as part of the celebration for 11 Bachelor of Aviation students presented with their Wings in front of family and friends at a ceremony at the Milson Flight Systems Centre today.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Assistant Vice-Chancellor (External Relations) Cas Carter has announced the appointment of Mitch Murdoch as Director of Alumni Relations and the Massey University Foundation.
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Over 40 years, Professor Allan Rae has progressed from quantifying the economic benefits of new apple varieties for local growers to helping negotiators on major trade deals in the international market.
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A new book offers insight into how contemporary social construction theory has developed in the past two centuries.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Six staff this week received Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence, recognising their commitment to the development and success of students’ learning across a broad range of disciplines.
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Mäori visual artist Israel Birch’s exhibition, Karohirohi – meaning the shimmering light, opens today in Sydney.
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The so-called "Moa's Ark" theory – that New Zealand's animal and plant life has evolved largely untouched over 80 million years since the Gondwana supercontinent broke up – is being challenged by new molecular evidence from native birds.
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A new study led by the University, in partnership with Griffith University in Brisbane, aims to measure the growth of franchising and how much it contributes to the national economy.
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