There are news stories from 2011 - showing page 7 of 12.
21 July 2011 Diet and genetics both play a big role in goat milk composition and that is the focus of a study by Waikato University MSc student Nadine Huitema, who says it’s “quite a broad project”.
21 July 2011 A team of Waikato University computer science students have come up with an innovative way to help children learn to read.
22 July 2011 Waikato University staff will hold a fundraising breakfast this month to support Chace Topperwien, the Hamilton toddler who was diagnosed with a rare cancer just days before his second birthday.
22 July 2011 Waikato University student and Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar Angela Simpson is in the midst of international orienteering competitions in Europe, so far achieving outstanding results.
22 July 2011 A group of University of Waikato students will represent New Zealand in the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) World Cup in October.
22 July 2011 Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko - the man who’s been called the most physically powerful pianist, returns to Hamilton to play a solo concert at University of Waikato’s Academy of Performing Arts in August.
25 July 2011 The Science Learning Hub - an innovative University of Waikato website connecting scientists with schools - has won a prestigious telecommunications award.
26 July 2011 Too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry – Hamilton’s next Café Scientifique is an opportunity to find out more about the weather.
27 July 2011 The Academy of Performing Arts at the University of Waikato will be known as the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts for at least the next 10 years.
28 July 2011 One of New Zealand’s most exciting contemporary photographers Yvonne Todd has taken up an invitation by the University of Waikato to curate her own exhibition – the next show at the Calder & Lawson Gallery at the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts.
28 July 2011 A book written while its author was writer in residence at the University of Waikato is New Zealand’s book of the year for 2011.
29 July 2011 Waikato University says it still has room for research postgraduate students and people wanting to enrol for Summer School at the end of the year.
1 August 2011 Detecting mouse footprints as part of a Fieldays competition has won 15-year-old St Peter's School student Laura Walker a night walk on Maungatautiri and dinner for two at Out in the Styx Guesthouse.
1 August 2011 University of Waikato graduate student Hannah Cleland is looking into the effectiveness of the mental health services in Cambridge as part of her masters degree.
1 August 2011 Carbon taxes will be the topic of discussion at the next University of Waikato Tauranga Café Scientifique held on Monday August 8.
1 August 2011 A Star Wars homage film by a University of Waikato graduate has taken out Best Acting award in the Lucasfilms Star Wars film competition, at the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego.
2 August 2011 There can be fewer environments for life that are harsher than the ponds on Bratina Island, near New Zealand’s Scott Base in Antarctica, and there is no shortage of diversity, as Waikato University student Stephen Archer is finding.
3 August 2011 New Zealand’s foremost military historian Dr Chris Pugsley, will be awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waikato.
5 August 2011 Creating iPad applications, experimenting with liquid nitrogen and programming small robotic cars are not usual activities during the school holidays, but for almost 200 high school students and a number of adult learners, this was just the case.
5 August 2011 Two University of Waikato lecturers have received prestigious awards for sustained excellence in tertiary teaching at the recent Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards.
5 August 2011 The annual University of Waikato free Winter Lecture Series kicked off on Wednesday night with a high performance athlete, a high performance monitor and an elite coach discussing what it takes to reach the next level in sport.
8 August 2011 New Zealand’s Acting Minister of Energy and Resources, Hekia Parata, is being presented with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waikato this month. (Aug 19).
8 August 2011 Tauranga businessman Paul Bowker will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waikato this month.
11 August 2011 In the second public lecture in the University of Waikato Winter Lecture Series, former Waikato Management School dean Professor Mike Pratt outlined the lessons for business offered by sporting success through the concept of peak performance.
12 August 2011 Businessman and Waikato Hospice supporter John Erkkila will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waikato this month.
16 August 2011 Waikato University has named the Men's and Women’s rowing crews taking part in the Gallagher Great Race against England’s University of Cambridge and the University of Melbourne on September 11.
16 August 2011 University of Waikato rower Linda Matthews, who took home a silver medal at the recent Under 23 World Champs in Amsterdam, is back in the Waikato with her sights set on glory for the Gallagher Great Race.
18 August 2011 A University of Waikato researcher is collaborating with this year's Distinguished Alumni Award recipient and military historian Dr Chris Pugsley on a book looking at the experiences of New Zealand soldiers in France during World War I.
18 August 2011 Former world squash champion Dame Susan Devoy said being a female in a minority sport continues to be a challenge – financially and for getting media coverage, during presentations as part of the University of Waikato’s Winter Lecture series.
19 August 2011 What possums like to eat and putting citronella collars on dogs are just two of the subjects being discussed at the eighth annual conference of the New Zealand Association for Behaviour Analysis from August 26 - 28 at the University of Waikato.