There are news stories from 2010 - showing page 4 of 13.
8 April 2010 A penchant for pulling things apart has landed a University of Waikato doctoral graduate a plum job as a research and development engineer with Christchurch-based tech development company ARANZ.
9 April 2010 In the two and a half years since volcanologist Adrian Pittari arrived in New Zealand this country has had precisely one volcanic eruption.
12 April 2010 Nine years ago, the prospect of starting her doctorate threw Lesley Murrihy into a spin. On Friday April 16 the Taumarunui school principal and mother of eight will be surrounded by friends and family for graduation at the Waikato University marae.
13 April 2010 Everyone’s heard of the ‘Best Job In The World’ viral marketing campaign by Tourism Queensland, which last year put out a worldwide call for applicants to spend six months as ‘caretaker’ on pristine Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
14 April 2010 A scientist who’s spent nearly 50 years studying New Zealand’s lakes and rivers and coastlines is being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Waikato.
14 April 2010 A dedicated advocate for young women has put her money where her mouth is by completing a masters degree by the age of 23.
14 April 2010 An international advocate for human rights and former New Zealand Human Rights Commissioner is to receive the University of Waikato’s highest honour.
14 April 2010 It’s natural to be nervous when starting a new job, but moving to a new country, finding a job and having to communicate in another language can be downright scary.
14 April 2010 Efforts to identify and track down the final member of the Class of 1960 for the University of Waikato School of Education’s 50th anniversary celebrations later this year have paid off.
14 April 2010 It was an emotional return for Tonga’s Solicitor-General and Waikato University alumnus Mr Aminiasi Kefu, as he reminisced of his days as a law student during an official visit to the University on April 12.
15 April 2010 When Tuahana Clark graduates with a masters degree from the University of Waikato on Friday, it’ll mark the end of a long journey for the keen weaver.
15 April 2010 Ongoing improvements in information and communication technologies, changes in business models, flexible working hours, restructuring and redundancies have seen home-based businesses flourish.
16 April 2010 National table tennis player Sarah Her-Lee has just struck lucky. The Waikato law and politics graduate has secured a sponsor, Auckland based Equity Law, to help her get to the World Table Tennis Championships in Russia next month. They have also offered her a job once her table tennis commitments are over.
16 April 2010 How would you respond if a homeless person picked up the leftovers on your plate as you dined in a foodcourt, or people criticised what you’d put in your supermarket trolley?
19 April 2010 Two University of Waikato alumni are among the four winners of the prestigious William Georgetti Scholarships, awarded each year for postgraduate study in a field that will benefit the social, cultural and economic development of New Zealand.
19 April 2010 A business analysis of an Auckland-based drinks company that uses “good plastic” for its bottled water has won second place in a prestigious international competition.
20 April 2010 A student team from the University of Waikato has emerged the winner in the first round of the 2010 national business case league, New Zealand's premier university business case competition.
21 April 2010 There are more of us getting older, and fewer being born to take our place. So what will that mean for New Zealand as a whole? Waikato University’s first Inaugural Professorial Lecture for 2010 looks at the looming threat of accelerated population ageing.
21 April 2010 Bhanu Sharma finished her Waikato University engineering degree and found herself spoilt for choice. On the same day, within ten minutes, she was offered two jobs (in the same company but at different sites) and a place at Monash University in Australia to study for a PhD.
22 April 2010 Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is coming to Waikato University to perform in the International Celebrity Showcase series and give a master class to members of the public and university music students.
22 April 2010 Former parliamentary speaker Margaret Wilson named as first NZ-UK Link Visiting Professor to the UK.
22 April 2010 Kīngi Tūheitia joined the University of Waikato to celebrate Kīngitanga Day on April 21.
26 April 2010 As the Law Commission is due to release its recommendations on an overhaul of New Zealand’s liquor laws, new research has been released showing the impacts extra liquor outlets can have on a community.
26 April 2010 A Waikato-wide study of head injuries has got off to a busy start with about 50 new notifications a week.
27 April 2010 About 3,000 students and teachers from as far away as Northland and Hawkes Bay are expected to converge on the University of Waikato’s campus for the annual Open Day on April 30.
28 April 2010 It’s a bit of a small world, believes Bryna Flaim, an American raised in Santa Barbara. She met her current PhD supervisor, Waikato University’s Terry Healy, at a wedding in New Zealand.
28 April 2010 GPS systems are everywhere these days, and smart phones are coming up fast behind. But the kitchen might seem an odd place to find a context-aware system – a computer system that’s aware of its physical environment. Not for a group of University of Waikato computer science students, who’ve brought computers into the kitchen to help them cook up a storm.
28 April 2010 They’re identical twins graduating from the University of Waikato with identical degrees, and they’ve flummoxed employers by applying for the same jobs.
29 April 2010 Nicky Black interviewed 125 people in seven countries in order to complete her PhD. She studied corporate citizenship in the oil and gas sector in Myanmar (also known as Burma) and her doctorate took four years to complete.
29 April 2010 An internal communications specialist is this year’s recipient of Waikato Management Schools Ted Zorn Waikato Award for Management Communication.