There are news stories from 2011 - showing page 4 of 12.
2 May 2011 Four talented teenagers are headed to Chinese Taipei to represent New Zealand in the International Biology Olympiad. The students were selected following a recent week-long training event hosted by the University of Waikato and Massey University.
2 May 2011 As a three-year-old Jeremy Cronin was found on the roof of his house by his mother, looking towards the hills. Twenty years later he was running up and over them, completing his first Coast to Coast in what has become an obsession for endurance sport.
3 May 2011 New research has shown that spirituality in educational leadership can have a positive effect when expressed appropriately and with integrity.
3 May 2011 Women’s rugby is back at the University of Waikato, with the help of Waikato University Sport Manager Crystal Kaua, who is an Aotearoa New Zealand Sevens and Black Ferns representative.
3 May 2011 In November last year, news of the bacterial infection PSA’s spread through kiwifruit wines throughout New Zealand rocked the industry.
4 May 2011 More than 3500 secondary school students from Auckland, Northland, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and Taranaki joined students and staff at the University of Waikato Open Day last Friday.
6 May 2011 Calder & Lawson Tours will sponsor the Calder & Lawson Gallery in the Waikato University Academy of Performing Arts for $100,000 over ten years. The sponsorship will be used to create an endowment fund for performing arts.
9 May 2011 For the first time since its inception in 1993, the annual Waikato Law Review has two student editors.
10 May 2011 A leading economist at the University of Waikato has been appointed to an international panel of experts advising the European Union’s Regional Policy Directorate on how to measure the effect of cohesion policies from 2013.
10 May 2011 University of Waikato Sport and Leisure Studies senior lecturer Dr Holly Thorpe has spent a large part of her life on the slopes and is releasing her first sole-authored book called ‘Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice’.
11 May 2011 A New Zealand study looking at vitamin D levels in patients admitted to hospital with pneumonia has shown that patients with severe vitamin D deficiency are more likely to die from the disease.
11 May 2011 The University of Waikato’s presence in the Bay of Plenty is growing steadily every year, with 2011 student numbers attending the Tauranga campus already 15% up on last year.
12 May 2011 Five Waikato University students are among the recipients of the Freemasons Charity scholarships.
12 May 2011 Waikato University earth sciences graduate Holly Goddard has spent the summer collecting samples from the South Auckland volcanic field, Ngauruhoe, and at Lake Rotomahana beside Mt Tarawera.
12 May 2011 An international project to “bar-code” all animal life using DNA sequences has been given a small boost by one of Waikato University’s summer students.
12 May 2011 Chris Eames was at the beach when he thought up the theme for the year’s first Café Scientifique later this month.
12 May 2011 Waikato University mechanical engineering student Rhys Henderson who is beginning his third year of a BE, has just spent 10 weeks assessing the current state of play in the high-performance composites field, focusing on mountain bike frames made out of carbon fibre.
12 May 2011 A geological dating method first proposed by Ernest Rutherford over 100 years ago is now being used successfully at Waikato University.
12 May 2011 Sponges, sea squirts and other creatures living on the sea bed may not seem to be doing too much, but are actually engaged in ongoing chemical warfare.
16 May 2011 A new barrier designed by a University of Waikato researcher may prove that removing pest fish from lakes and waterways can improve water quality, without forcing farmers to minimise profits.
18 May 2011 The Vice-Chancellor’s XI proved too good on the cricket pitch when they played the inaugural Northern Districts Māori team in a one-day cricket match at the University of Waikato’s Hamilton Campus on Wednesday.
18 May 2011 A team of students from the University of Waikato have come up with an idea that could help parents monitor their wayward toddlers.
19 May 2011 These may seem unlikely bed fellows but the latest exhibition at the Calder & Lawson Gallery at the University of Waikato is the perfect setting for surprising combinations says university art curator Karl Chitham.
19 May 2011 More than 100 students from Hamilton's Hillcrest High School visited the University of Waikato on Wednesday May 18.
19 May 2011 A network of NZ Universities who agree to support NZ’s high performance athletes has been developed by the NZ Academy of Sport (NZAS).
19 May 2011 Richard Rowley promised himself two careers and while he’s done that, he has also ended up back where he started - in law.
20 May 2011 Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara is pleased that the government has recognised the important contribution higher education makes to New Zealand’s future growth. Today’s budget announcement provides for a 2 percent increase in the funding rate for all degree and postgraduate courses, despite the government’s financial constraints.
24 May 2011 New Sir Edmund Hillary scholar Luke van Veen will be putting himself on the chopping block for the University of Waikato in June.
24 May 2011 Suspense, high drama and court room confessions were all part of a day’s study for University of Waikato Social Work students in Tauranga this month when their classroom turned into a mock court.
25 May 2011 A University of Waikato Tourism student who toughed out a winter in one of China’s most remote areas to conduct her research has won an award for her perseverance.