There are news stories from 2011 - showing page 2 of 12.
24 February 2011 The University of Waikato officially welcomed its new students to mark the beginning of the university’s new academic year.
24 February 2011 Waikato University’s Radiocarbon Dating Unit has two things to celebrate – a new lab and the milestone of processing over 30,000 samples since opening in 1974.
1 March 2011 Waikato Management School research which examines CEO strategic decision-making and the role of the accountant in institutional change has garnered two early-career academics Outstanding Emerging Scholar awards.
1 March 2011 An internationally recognised authority on management communication has been named as the chairperson of the Business and Economics peer review panel for the Tertiary Education Commission’s 2012 Performance-Based Research Fund quality evaluation.
4 March 2011 Waikato University staff and students dressed in red and black on March 4 to show their support for the people of Christchurch, with people pulling out red t-shirts, scarves, socks and even make-shift crêpe paper sashes to don the colours of Canterbury.
4 March 2011 The University of Waikato's Hamilton and Tauranga campuses are located in the North Island of New Zealand and have not been affected by the Christchurch earthquake. Our thoughts are with the people of Christchurch during this difficult time.
8 March 2011 Waikato University student Cayla Were delayed the start of her studies to be in Christchurch to help in the city’s rescue and recovery effort.
8 March 2011 The University of Waikato is proving to be the right place for new student Chonaire Huriwai, who is in her first-year of a Bachelor of Management Studies degree.
9 March 2011 Waikato University alumnus Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae has been named as New Zealand’s next Governor-General.
9 March 2011 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Emeritus, James Judd, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato next week.
9 March 2011 Leaving the comforts of home can be daunting, but for Waikato University’s first-year student Michelle Jones it’s what makes it even more exciting.
10 March 2011 The University of Waikato’s new Chair in Coastal Science Professor Chris Battershill will give his first public lecture in Tauranga on Thursday 17 March.
10 March 2011 A Waikato University scientist says if New Zealand is serious about reducing risk following Christchurch’s earthquakes, then Northland is the most sensible place to be building a new city.
11 March 2011 Students at the University of Waikato say they are enjoying the refurbished library and are looking forward to the new Student Centre which will open later this year.
14 March 2011 Geophysicist Professor Kevin Furlong, on sabbatical at Waikato University from Penn State University in the USA, will give a free public lecture on what New Zealand can learn from the recent devastating earthquake in Japan.
15 March 2011 WaikatoLink, the technology transfer company of the University of Waikato, and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), South Africa are sharing commercialisation expertise and building global linkages through a Technology Transfer Internship Training Programme.
17 March 2011 New Zealand must prepare itself for the possibility of an earthquake as strong as the recent Japanese quake. That’s the advice from geophysicist professor Kevin Furlong, who’s on sabbatical at Waikato University from Penn State University in the US.
22 March 2011 Waikato University Master of Engineering student Sean Nixon may very well have the road to success licked as the 22-year-old is working on developing ice cream that offers benefits rather than just calories.
22 March 2011 Waikato University students Lauren Prentice and Tegan Summerville were both in Christchurch at the time of the February 22 earthquake and have transferred to Waikato for one semester.
23 March 2011 Waikato University’s new Professor of Environmental Planning, Bob Evans, is concerned at the way in which New Zealand, like the world’s other prosperous economies, is continuing to pursue economic growth despite the long-term dangers inherent in this.
25 March 2011 Waikato University’s Te Piringa-Faculty of Law hosted New Zealand’s Governor General Rt Hon Sir Anand Satyanand this week, as he presented about his role as governor-general.
28 March 2011 The number of Equivalent Full-Time Students at Waikato University at the start of A Semester is 2.1% up on the same time last year.
28 March 2011 The University of Waikato is once again preparing to welcome thousands of people for the annual Balloons Over Waikato Night Glow event this week.
29 March 2011 Traditionally, passionate people who wanted to make the world a better place would start a charity or found a non-profit group to sell the idea of change. Today, a growing group of people are using a new business model to sell products that change the world while making a profit.
29 March 2011 The University has boosted ties with its commercialisation arm by appointing top academic Professor Bruce Clarkson to the WaikatoLink board.
30 March 2011 Waikato University’s writer in residence, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman was home in Christchurch when the February 22nd earthquake struck. Back in Hamilton, he put aside his current poetry project and began writing a series of earthquake poems instead.
30 March 2011 Orienteers don’t just run; they have to use a compass and read maps while they’re racing, otherwise they get horribly lost. Waikato University science student Angela Simpson loves the sport and she’s no fair weather athlete.
1 April 2011 Waikato University has hosted its annual Stakeholders’ Breakfast, designed to keep the community informed about the organisation’s financial and student situation.
1 April 2011 The number of Equivalent Full Time Students at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus at the start of A Semester is 11% up on the same time last year.
1 April 2011 New Zealand plays a major role in developing new drugs to fight cancer thanks to the high endemic biodiversity of its coasts - but that significant contribution is at risk. Sedimentation and marine invasions mean there is an urgent need to protect biodiversity.