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Youth unemployment rates have doubled since the Global Financial Crisis and young New Zealanders looking for work need to develop stronger 'soft skills' if they want to find work, says Massey University sociologist Professor Paul Spoonley.

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A Massey University professor has received a prestigous award for two decades of research that has directly influenced policy in the United States and Europe.

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Massey University student-athletes have finished the Olympic Games with three gold and three bronze medals.

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Three hundred and fifty high school pupils got a taste of university life attending lectures as part of Massey’s Year 13 History Seminar programme.

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One hundred years of Māori privilege is the focus of doctoral research by Massey Māori historian Peter Meihana.

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Massey University research is helping improve the lives of children born with a rare birth defect.

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A revised gifted and talented handbook co-written by a Massey University researcher will help educators recognise and support gifted pupils.

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The high levels of dissatisfaction that most Cantabrians have with their insurance companies will damage the market share of some of the industry’s biggest players, says an insurance expert from Massey University.

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WELLINGTON CITY — Stirring sounds are set to resonate for jazz players young and old at the upcoming New Zealand School of Music Jazz Festival.

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Massey University researchers say ash from this week’s Mt Tongariro eruption poses no great human health or agricultural threat.

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Massey College of Education staff welcomed three international groups with a powhiri on Monday.

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China's cute, golden snub-nosed monkey could teach humans a few things about conflict resolution and peaceful co-existence, say researchers from Massey University.

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By Associate Professor Hugh Morton, Like many New Zealanders I was disappointed that Nick Willis did not make it to the medal podium in the Olympic 1500m race.

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A volunteer expo at Massey's Manawatu campus today helped connect community organisations with student volunteers.

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Massey student Simon van Velthooven has won the bronze medal in the men's keirin at the London velodrome this morning.

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Dr Selwyn Katene (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) was officially welcomed into his new position as Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika) on Monday.

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When the man with the wild hair and the white overalls starts to sing, everyone listens (except maybe his children).

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A film documenting former Beatle George Harrison’s life and times is to be examined in a presentation that encourages the audience to explore their own achievements and legacies.

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Massey University volcanologists are on Mt Tongariro today taking ash samples that will help understand what type of eruption occurred last night.

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A survey sent to every New Zealand school today will investigate how well schools cater for gifted children – and compare results with research conducted a decade ago.  Massey University Associate Professor Tracy Riley and Dr Brenda Bricknell from Waikato University are leading the independent survey.

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Massey University student-athletes have been leading New Zealand’s medal charge at the London Olympics.

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Massey University business student Daniel Holt’s personal motto is: “No one ever said it was going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.”   It’s a phrase that has held him in good stead as he prepares for his first Paralympics at the end of this month.

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Aspiring fiction writer Bonnie Etherington is in the midst of her first novel.

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Leading agriculture researcher Professor Paul Kenyon will take up a new scientist in residence role at Massey’s Riverside Farm in the Wairarapa region.

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Hannah Salmon, a 22-year-old Massey University fine arts student from Wellington, has won a 2012 New Zealand Art Show Emerging Artist Award.

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Drills are out and game simulations are in – according to new research on sports coaching by a Massey University researcher.

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More than 3000 Muslim athletes are competing at the London Olympics in the midst of Ramadan, the holy month where followers fast from sunrise to sunset, The Independent reports.

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Massey University sport psychologist Professor Gary Hermansson had a chance to chat with United States basketball star Kobe Bryant yesterday, just days after inspiring a Facebook post by the NBA star.

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While female athletes make up nearly half of New Zealand’s team for the London Olympics, the same is not true when it comes to coaches and senior roles in sports management, says a Massey University expert on leadership.

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Up to 2000 visitors toured Massey’s Manawatu campus today for its annual open day programme.

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Massey University alumnus Peter Vullings was named the winner of this year's Innovate Manawatu competition at an event last night.

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A Massey University ecologist is helping researchers balance the needs of land use with the freshwater ecosystems in Tasmania.

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Last night in London the men’s Black Sticks hockey side were beaten 2-0 by Korea.

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Massey student Sarah Goss has been named vice-captain of the New Zealand women’s sevens squad.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Auckland City Missioner Diane Robertson will speak about her vision to lift people from poverty at a lecture on the Albany campus on Wednesday night.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Education Minister Hekia Parata visited Te Uru Maraurau School of Māori Education on Friday to gain an insight into its Māori medium teaching.

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Massey University students have been prominent in the opening days of the London Olympics.

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Two feature length New Zealand films and a short film, which include the input of Massey University staff, screen at the New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington this week.

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The Centenary History project group is calling for historians to help tell the story of New Zealand's involvement in the First World War.

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Rugby players and the sports media continue to underestimate the seriousness of concussion, a School of Psychology study has concluded.

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World basketball great Kobe Bryant has promoted the views of Massey sport psychologist Professor Gary Hermansson and posted a link to the Massey News website on Facebook for his 13 million followers to read earlier today.

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WELLINGTON CITY — A Massey University lecturer is leading a major new exhibition exploring links between New Zealand art and the avant-garde French artist Marcel Duchamp.

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An independent report on the future of New Zealand’s agri-food sector is calling for a joint approach from industry and government to drive the activities needed to treble the value of exports by the sector by 2025.  The report contains options on how sector leaders can work together, and why industry should lead the strategy implementation work.

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Flying cars, holographic pets, and a population explosion are part of the picture New Zealand teenagers are painting for the country’s future.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey has expressed his condolences to the whānau, friends and colleagues of Bachelor of Construction student Hatu Herewini, 64, who collapsed and died at the Albany campus yesterday.

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Each year Massey’s career and employment service staff host a range of career expos where employers can promote their organisations and opportunities for students, including employment over the semester and in the breaks, graduate roles, scholarships and voluntary work.

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AUCKLAND CITY — It has been open barely a month, but Massey’s new creative arts building is already receiving accolades.

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Auckland anxiety sufferers now have an opportunity to get help with a new group therapy programme at Massey University’s Centre for Psychology in Albany.

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Two Massey University staff members have taken up key roles at New Zealand’s leading professional body for the aviation industry.

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Massey University students and staff have put their voices behind the New Zealand Olympic team, singing the national anthem in a message of support.

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A Massey University PhD student is conducting a survey to find out more about the food safety practices of New Zealand households.

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If gold medals were awarded for field hockey equipment, Palmerston North-based OBO would be the red hot favourite at this year’s Olympics.

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Teams tested their te reo in an Amazing Race across Massey University’s Manawatū campus.

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A fourth-year Massey industrial design student has taken out this year’s GO Innovate! competition with a novel hole punch she designed after constantly losing her lecture notes.

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WELLINGTON CITY — Three Pasifika artists will be the first artists-in-residence at Te Ara Hihiko, Massey University's new creative arts building in Wellington.

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New Zealand’s participation in three London Olympic Games reflects changing national identities as well as sporting fortunes.

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A newly published book honours the legacy of two of New Zealand’s leading education academics.

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Last-minute entries for the NZ Food Awards are coming in thick and fast.

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Olympic hockey player Kayla Sharland is hoping for at least a top six finish in London but has her sights set on long-term career goals as well.

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Postharvest PhD student Justin O’Sullivan has been awarded a prestigious travel scholarship by the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes.

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Massey University has appointed one of the country’s leading business management and entrepreneurship specialists as its new Director of Agri-Food Business.

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Owen Glenn's pledge to contribute $80 million to addressing child abuse and family violence and fund a Commission of Inquiry will come as a welcome relief to a sector overburdened with work and under-resourced.

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Te Marama o te Reo (Māori Language Month) at Massey will be in full swing next week as the nation celebrates Māori Language Week.

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Massey College of Sciences staff members won two of the 12 national tertiary teaching excellence awards presented at Parliament in Wellington last night.

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Massey University’s School of Design in Wellington is setting up Australasia’s first digital fabrication facility affiliated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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The Great Hall of Massey’s Museum Building on the Wellington campus will be the venue for a sonic performance that literally resonates from the rubble of the Christchurch earthquakes.

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In a rare move, Massey University’s School of Visual and Material Culture has bestowed the position of Honorary Fellow on Professor Kendall R Phillips of Syracuse University (New York, USA).

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AUCKLAND CITY — The upcoming centenary of the First World War has provided the perfect opportunity for Massey University to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Auckland War Memorial Museum.

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There will be a keen sense of anticipation when poet Rhian Gallagher reads from her latest collection at the next Writers Read event in Wellington on Thursday July 26 – the night before National Poetry Day.

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The best type of exercise to reduce the risk of diabetes and combat obesity-related illness in Maori men is the focus of a Massey University study.

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The battles fought in the toughest year of the First World War will be told as part of a history tour.

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Massey University's reputation as New Zealand's leading sports university has been cemented further with 53 Massey students or alumni named in the 185-strong Olympic team.

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Will middle New Zealand’s suspicion of the Treaty of Waitangi outweigh its suspicion of the government’s asset-sales? That’s the political question that John Key has to address as the controversy over Maori customary rights to water-usage unfolds.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Christchurch could rival Auckland in ethnic diversity as it attracts high numbers of migrants needed for the post-quake rebuild, says Massey University sociologist Professor Paul Spoonley.

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Police Intelligence Manager Janine Foster has joined Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies to develop and teach on a new Masters Degree being offered.

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Massey University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey has announced the appointment of Dr Selwyn Katene as the University's Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika).

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A Farm Succession Summit at Massey University this week will bring together leading researchers and stakeholders from New Zealand and around the world.

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Fashion design student Steve Hall has been selected as one of 100 delegates at this year's Aspiring Leaders' Forum, hosted by members of Parliament.

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Dr Kerry Taylor has been named as Head of the new School of Humanities within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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A greater flow of academic collaboration, study exchanges and internships between Massey University and the National University of Samoa are the goals of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two institutions.

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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand’s first Fat Studies conference will be held at Massey’s Wellington campus this week.

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The University Council's Honorary Awards Committee has conferred the title of Professor Emeritus on Dr Philip Gendall.

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Memory aids have long been identified as a way for people with traumatic brain injuries to remember everyday tasks, and a study by psychology researcher Hannah Bos wants to determine which could be best.

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Few outside of China have heard of the zokor, but the endemic burrowing rodent’s impact on China’s vulnerable alpine grasslands has lead to research collaboration between Gansu and Massey Universities.

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Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey has announced that Professor Robert Anderson will be the University's new Deputy Vice-Chancellor.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Support for the 2012 NZ Food Awards continues to grow with the signing of Countdown as a strategic partner and sponsor of the Grocer’s Choice Award.

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Two decades of "misguided policies" led to the major shortcomings in New Zealand biosecurity system identified by a report published this week on the Psa kiwifruit virus, says an internationally-recognised horticulturalist.

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Expanding Massey's profile to attract more overseas students in the midst of a global economic downturn might sound like Mission Almost Impossible.

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More than 120 current and former staff, graduates, students, University Council members and whänau attended a function at the Manawatū campus on Friday to farewell Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika) Sir Mason Durie.

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Few business PhDs quote from personal diary entries, but Dr Andrew Dickson's thesis is unashamedly based on his own experience of being overweight and anxious.

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Athletes can spend years preparing their bodies physically for the Olympics, but to become a champion the mind also needs to be prepared.

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Massey scientist Bruce Glavovic has been appointed to a world-leading funding group that will allocate €20 million to coastal vulnerability and freshwater security research.

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AUCKLAND CITY — The links between ADHD in children and deficiencies in long-chain omega-3 fatty acids is just one of the controversial topics being discussed at the upcoming Omega-3 Fatty Acids Symposium, to be hosted at Massey University's Albany campus on Friday.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Massey University’s Albany futsal team is looking to stay on top as they head back to Australia to defend their title at the Eastern University Games at Tamworth in New South Wales.

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Recent Massey University graduate, Carlton King, is celebrating having his first article published in the prestigious Australia and New Zealand Property Journal.

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The latest cohort of students at Massey University's School of Aviation were awarded with their Wings brevet last week, marking a quarter of a century of producing aviators with a difference.

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In a gesture of international goodwill a replica rugby jersey made from the same material and mill that crafted the original jerseys for the 1905 All Blacks, has been gifted to a Welsh rugby club.

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A European Commission study led by a Massey University researcher has found the earlier a person starts learning a language the more proficient they will be.

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AUCKLAND CITY — A controversial biography of William Colenso by an award-winning author promises to be an interesting start to the 2012 Massey University Public Lecture Series in Auckland.

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Associate Professor Cindy Kiro and Masters graduate Frank Pega are Massey University’s newest Fulbright alumni.

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