There are news stories from 2010 - showing page 6 of 13.
2 June 2010 Each year, farmers use around 60 tonnes of veterinary antibiotics to prevent and treat diseases and to promote growth. But 60-80% of each dose passes straight through the animal and ends up in the environment.
3 June 2010 To achieve its goal of going national, Hamilton law firm Tompkins Wake should specialise in commercial and agricultural law and expand its services to Taranaki, Wellington and Canterbury.
3 June 2010 Research by a Waikato University student may help to contain the spread of two emerging weeds. Pathik Trivedi, who is about to complete his MSc, was one of three prize winners when he presented his work on white bryony at a recent Sustainable Bioeconomy Student Poster Conference at the university.
8 June 2010 Twelve Waikato University students across nine sporting disciplines have been awarded prestigious New Zealand Universities Blues Awards for the 2009 academic year.
10 June 2010 Waikato Management School graduate Marietjie Mujis was runner up Account Manager of the Year for the Coca-Cola Amatil Australia supplier awards held in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum last month.
10 June 2010 Waikato University’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) have been helping raise funds for the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust (MEIT) – the largest ecological restoration project in New Zealand.
11 June 2010 Windermere campus was the place to be on June 10 for those considering tertiary study next semester or in 2011.
11 June 2010 Five Waikato University students were presented with a share of $34,000 in Freemasons scholarships at a ceremony held in Wellington recently.
11 June 2010 The Budget was positive for Waikato University - considering the negative talk from funders, says Chief Financial Officer Andrew McKinnon.
11 June 2010 Coastal scientist Professor Terry Healy’s work has been acknowledged with a Queen’s Birthday honour, a University of Waikato Medal and a life membership of the NZ Coastal Society.
11 June 2010 Waikato University researchers and Hamilton’s Age Concern have teamed up to study ageism. Yesterday the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on a major study of older people’s experiences with businesses and other organisations.
11 June 2010 Opening the farm up to tourists might sound like an easy way to make some extra money but farmers should do their homework before letting camera wielding strangers onto their properties, even if they are paying.
11 June 2010 There are plenty of seemingly good inventions that never make it to market, and equally many products fail when they hit the market.
14 June 2010 Future markets are often seen in terms of their projected size and growth rates. But in the 21st century, more important will be the age structure of each population and its impact on both demand and the ability to supply.
14 June 2010 New Zealand has an enviable record of farm innovation. Yet in the long-term, innovators often don’t reap the expected profit gains when they move a new crop or product from a niche position to the global mass market.
15 June 2010 Ten Waikato University students are undertaking graduate or postgraduate research on Waikato community issues thanks to grants from Trust Waikato.
17 June 2010 The National Agricultural Fieldays got underway in typical crisp cold Waikato weather, with thousands converging onto Mystery Creek on day one of the country’s biggest agricultural event.
17 June 2010 Twelve Waikato University students will be spending their semester break in Canada. The six management and six law students are all Māori postgraduate or senior undergraduate students who will be carrying out comparative research on management and law in New Zealand and Canada and the impact on the two countries’ indigenous cultures.
17 June 2010 A Waikato University student has designed the perfect tabletop guardian, a robot which can detect and destroy a foreign object entering its territory – the table.
17 June 2010 The most recent research on the Waikato River, from Taupo to Port Waikato, has been documented in a new book. The Waters of The Waikato, edited by Drs Kevin Collier and David Hamilton from Waikato University and W N (Bill) Vant (Environment Waikato) and Clive Howard-Williams (NIWA) will be launched next month.
17 June 2010 Secondary school students from the central North Island gathered this month to take part in the annual Waikato University Secondary Schools’ Mooting Competition.
21 June 2010 Leading tertiary education providers in the Bay of Plenty, the University of Waikato and Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, are committed to their partnership which forms the cornerstone of the development of an enhanced tertiary sector for the region.
22 June 2010 It was only when he moved to the country that Murray Pearson truly realised the importance of broadband.
22 June 2010 Antarctic research at the University of Waikato has received a major financial boost with the establishment of an endowment fund.
24 June 2010 Kei aku pukenga, kei aku kaiako, ngā puna o te kī, oti rā ki te Whare Wānanga o Waikato whānui, tēnei te mihi, tēnei te mihi, tēnei te mihi. Waikato University Māori and Theatre Studies graduate Moko Smith has been accepted to study at the Jacques Lecoq international theatre school in Paris.
24 June 2010 A Waikato University science symposium looking at ways to spread the word about science takes place on July 8.
25 June 2010 Fine skies and calm seas led to perfect racing conditions for the annual Waikato University engineering students’ boat race, with last year’s race inhibiting winter leaves nowhere to be seen, says Engineering lecturer and racing moderator Dr Rob Torrens.
25 June 2010 The University of Waikato has scooped a third of scholarships offered by the Energy Education Trust.
28 June 2010 Research at the University of Waikato has played a key part in a new facility dedicated to creating a titanium industry in New Zealand.
28 June 2010 Waikato University Engineering Professor Janis Swan has been awarded the JC Andrews Memorial Award, the most prestigious award bestowed by the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology Inc.