News
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Māori Punk to Wales: strengthening international connections (26 May 2023)
A University of Waikato PhD researcher is sharing Māori punk with the world, and strengthening academic connections between New Zealand and Wales in the process.
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Chidgey axes the competition at The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards…again (18 May 2023)
Catherine Chidgey has been named winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for the second time with her novel The Axeman’s Carnival at The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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Exploring and embracing diversity (10 May 2023)
Research at the University of Waikato is helping to underpin policy development and decisions designed to improve diversity and inclusion and create more gender-responsive practices across New Zealand organisations.
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Sargeson Prize winner praises prestigious award ahead of 2023 entries opening (28 March 2023)
Entries for the 2023 Sargeson Prize open on April 1, and last year's winner, Leeanne O'Brien urges other writers to enter.
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Bouncing unborn baby research between time zones secret to success (17 March 2023)
Bouncing work back and forth between time zones has allowed research into fetal development to move at a 24hour cycle, thanks to a Marsden grant and dedicated researchers from Aotearoa and England.
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Saving lives: Psychology programmes celebrate 50 years (8 March 2023)
More than 85 people gathered to celebrate the University of Waikato’s School of Psychology on Sunday at the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts in Hamilton.
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Waikato alumnus awarded prestigious University Medal. (7 March 2023)
The University of Waikato has awarded its prestigious University of Waikato Medal to alumnus Rob McGowan for his significant and sustained contribution to protecting Aotearoa’s Indigenous ecosystems.
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Award-winning soprano and Waikato alumna is branching out into the world (7 March 2023)
With one of her recent achievements on home soil having been the runner up at the prestigious Lexus song contest, which was held in Wellington this past July, Felicity Tompkins has now returned back to the United States, continuing her studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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Feeling the burn: poetry for our times (6 March 2023)
Award-winning poet and University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Tracey Slaughter has spent the last nine months reviewing more than 1000 poems for this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: After-burn.
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Should Artificial Intelligence make us reconceive what it means to be human? (22 February 2023)
Generative AIs are producing journalism, writing poems, and telling jokes. Sure, the op-eds, poetry, and humour of early-2023 AIs aren’t all that good.