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25 May 2011 Theatre Studies students at the University of Waikato are learning all about seduction as they prepare for the production of The Last Days of Don Juan – a play about the world’s greatest lover.
26 May 2011 A collaboration between New Zealand Post and the 2009 Te Matatini festival means you may recognise a local next time you post a letter.
26 May 2011 University of Waikato student Stephen McIntosh began learning Mandarin at high school because his “friends were Chinese”.
27 May 2011 Students at the University of Waikato have come up with a novel way to combat predator problems in New Zealand’s native bush.
30 May 2011 Plant evolution and extinct bacteria are just two of the stimulating research topics supported by Science & Engineering Masters Awards this year.
30 May 2011 Three Waikato University students have published a booklet which aims to build the self-confidence of teenage girls. Abby de Lisle, Laura Harris and Chelsie Foley combined forces to write ‘The Young Women’s Guide to Wellbeing'.
30 May 2011 University of Waikato history was made last week when Debating Society president Chamanthie Sinhalage was made a fully accredited adjudicator by the New Zealand Universities Debating Council.
31 May 2011 The Faculty of Education was filled with the sounds of meritorious music today as students and staff took part in the Hook, Line and Sing-A-Long.
2 June 2011 Some of the best budding business brains at the University of Waikato went head-to-head on Wednesday 1 June when the Waikato Management School held the 30th biannual business case competition.
3 June 2011 Research on one of the world’s most ancient families of flowering plants is aiding the conservation of New Caledonia’s unique flora and shedding light on the geological history of the south-west Pacific.
3 June 2011 Slimy sea slugs, prickly hedgehogs, a 19km hike and happy horses, were the subjects of the four winning photos in Waikato University’s Work Placement Photo Competition.
3 June 2011 For the last six years, Waikato University Associate Professor Vic Arcus has headed a team studying a family of proteins from the bacterium responsible for the world’s most infectious disease – Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
3 June 2011 Budding boat-designers had to compete with strong winds and thick lake weed at the annual University of Waikato Engineering Design Challenge.
7 June 2011 It’s been called “the invisible epidemic”, but a group of researchers at the University of Waikato are conducting a series of studies to find out more about brain injury and impact it can have on people’s lifelong health and social interactions.
8 June 2011 Three Waikato University students were awarded 2011 Trust Waikato scholarships at a ceremony held on June 2.
8 June 2011 The latest New Zealand university-led advances in agritech R&D will be on display at a special free event to be hosted by Waikato University and its commercialisation arm, WaikatoLink, on June 14.
9 June 2011 Waikato University student Sebastian Lowe is packing his viola and travelling over 6000km to Norway, just to find the perfect teacher.
10 June 2011 Secondary school students converged on the Windermere campus today to find out about the programmes offered at the University of Waikato and the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic.
10 June 2011 How marine biodiscovery programmes are leading to breakthroughs in new agrichemicals will be discussed at the University of Waikato’s stakeholder breakfast being held during the Agricultural Fieldays next week.
10 June 2011 Three exceptional companies have recently been awarded Outstanding Employer Awards for their support of the work placement programme run by the Faculty of Science & Engineering’s Cooperative Education Unit at the University of Waikato.
13 June 2011 First year economics students at Waikato University now have a better understanding of their subject, thanks to new media.
13 June 2011 University of Waikato Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar Sarah McLaughlin has won a place in the New Zealand Women's Football team going to the World Cup in Germany.
13 June 2011 Low-value animal protein has been given new life as a high-value biodegradable plastic with the discovery of a new manufacturing process by University of Waikato scientists.
13 June 2011 On the eve of the 2011 National Agricultural Fieldays, the country is holding its collective breath to see what spending signals the nation’s farmers will be giving.
13 June 2011 More people around the world drink goat milk than milk from any other animal, and 98% of New Zealand’s goat milk production goes offshore – mostly in the form of milk powder.
14 June 2011 Fieldays Rural Bachelor Best of the Best hopefuls face a different and possibly more difficult kind of challenge this year – a university one.
14 June 2011 Antarctica is the world’s coldest, driest and windiest place and every year researchers and students from the University of Waikato have the opportunity to experience first-hand this unique environment.
15 June 2011 The 43rd National Agricultural Fieldays kicked off this morning in typical fashion, with thousands converging on Hamilton's Mystery Creek.
15 June 2011 Waikato University PhD student Kyle Dewey says new technologies will help improve soil nutrient testing by speeding up and improving the accuracy of the soil tests.
15 June 2011 Former Mt Maunganui College head prefect Luke Van Veen is working up a sweat at the Agricultural Fieldays in Hamilton this week as he chops and saws his way through a stack of logs, in between his university exams.