There are news stories from 2014 - showing page 1 of 16.
7 January 2014 Michelle Chen has received a $7000 Prime Minister's Scholarship for Asia (PMSA) which will give her the opportunity to learn Mandarin as she heads to Shanghai on an academic exchange.
7 January 2014 University of Waikato PhD student Steven Pratt has been named as the recipient of the 2014 Lucy Cranwell Student Grant for Botanical Research.
9 January 2014 Lessons learnt from Australian biodiscovery and sponge aquaculture projects will be passed onto Bay of Plenty scientists and business leaders later this month as part of the University of Waikato's Treasuring the Bay symposium.
9 January 2014 University of Waikato Sir Edmund Hillary scholar Natalie Good has won New Zealand's first gold medal at the Trentino 2013 World Winter Universiade.
9 January 2014 A University of Waikato Earth scientist has played a significant role in a study which suggests a ~8600 year old excavated Turkish wall painting is the world's earliest representation of an active volcano.
13 January 2014 Boris Pfahringer is embracing Googlism as he begins an internship with web-giant Google in New York City.
14 January 2014 A badminton player and a pianist are the latest University of Waikato students to receive Sir Edmund Hillary medals.
15 January 2014 Charlotte Sheppard is in for a crash course in all things Korean as she heads to Seoul mid-year to begin a six-week summer school programme at Yonsei University.
16 January 2014 The University of Waikato will in February host several world experts on human computer interaction.
23 January 2014 Waikato University Geography professor, Robyn Longhurst went to school in the Waikato, did her bachelors, masters and PhD at Waikato and has now been appointed to the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor Education.
23 January 2014 Just three weeks after handing in his masters thesis, University of Waikato chemistry graduate Simon Williams was on a plane to Hawaii.
23 January 2014 Three University of Waikato engineering students joined five of New Zealand's top engineering leaders for a networking event in Wellington late last year.
24 January 2014 Two Northland sisters are the recipients of the inaugural Centre for Indigenous and Maori Governance PhD scholarships.
24 January 2014 A University of Waikato masters student, Kristopher Taipeti, has been working on the health, restoration and maintenance of the Waikato River.
28 January 2014 University of Waikato science student Zach McLean has been awarded a $5000 Patrick Shannon Scholarship from Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC).
28 January 2014 Waikato student researching the pharmaceutical properties of sea sponges in the marine environment won the Research-in-3 session, as part of the Treasuring the Bay Coastal Economic Symposium.
28 January 2014 Tauranga's first Cafe Scientifique for 2014 will take place on Monday 10 February, with the focus on the Bay of Plenty Regional Council's Kaituna River Re-Diversion and Wetland Creation project.
28 January 2014 Runners and walkers wanting to make good on their new year's fitness resolutions can join a Monday evening 5km course on campus at the University of Waikato.
30 January 2014 The University of Waikato has recently promoted Brian Gabbitas to the position of Professor.
30 January 2014 John Williams has recently been promoted to the position of Professor at the University of Waikato.
30 January 2014 After twenty years at the University of Waikato, Kim Pickering has been been promoted to professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
31 January 2014 Waikato graduate Kelly Newell is using her expertise in natural disasters and how they affect communities, to prepare the Waikato for such events in her role at the Waikato District Council.
31 January 2014 Waikato University student and former Hillary scholar Felicity Leydon-Davis has been named in the White Ferns squad to take on the West Indies in this month’s women's home cricket series.
3 February 2014 Kathryn Pavlovich is an academic who challenges traditional forms of management, and is the newest professor at the University of Waikato Management School.
3 February 2014 Waikato University's historian, Cathy Coleborne, is being made professor in a year of celebrations marking important events, including the University of Waikato celebrating 50 years.
3 February 2014 Current and former University of Waikato students feature prominently on a new Maori Television reality show starting in February.
11 February 2014 Lab 5 in R Block at the University of Waikato was a sea of blue uniforms as Year 10 Cambridge High School digital technology students took part in two computer Game Maker training sessions on 5 and 7 February.
11 February 2014 Brendan Hicks says it's a case of "long-term diligence paying off" as he is promoted to professor at the University of Waikato.
11 February 2014 In 2013, more than $105,000 in scholarships was awarded to Maori Science and Engineering students from the University of Waikato.
12 February 2014 A group of Waikato University researchers is looking at ways to take science and technology out of the "too hard basket" and get people talking and more engaged.