There are 225 news stories from 2020 - showing page 6 of 8.
5 October 2020 The University of Waikato has outshone Australian universities to receive a 2020 CAUDIT Award.
6 October 2020 When Mason Ashford arrived at the University of Waikato from Florida for her Study Abroad semester, she probably wasn't expecting a global pandemic and a country-wide lockdown part way through her studies.
6 October 2020 Engineering Professor Kim Pickering has been awarded $10.9m in Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Endeavour funding to explore a circular economy concept created for the Aotearoa New Zealand context, shaped by the philosophies and values of both founding cultures, Māori and European.
9 October 2020 Most of the time, New Zealand looks outwards at the world. For the past three years, however, the world has watched New Zealand deal with a terror attack, a natural disaster and a global pandemic.
10 October 2020 A team of University of Waikato researchers have successfully secured $6m funding over four years in the latest Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) Endeavour Fund round.
13 October 2020 A University of Waikato study has found that transgender people who have experienced stigma, including harassment, violence, and discrimination because of their identity are much more likely to have poor mental health outcomes.
13 October 2020 Associate Professor Taciano Milfont from the University of Waikato's Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri School of Psychology , was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Climate Change Task Force of the American Psychological Association (APA).
19 October 2020 The annual Waikato Engineering Design Show kicks off this week (21-23 October), with students from the School of Engineering showcasing their research and design projects to the public.
20 October 2020 Do you ever wonder how Siri or Alexa pull information from the web, turn on home appliances and perform everyday tasks for us? It’s all down to Artificial Intelligence (AI) – the ability of machines to seemingly think for themselves.
20 October 2020 Ross Lawrenson, Professor of Population Health at the University of Waikato, has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
20 October 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) has come in for its share of criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
22 October 2020 Two top researchers at the University of Waikato have received $800,000 each as part of a 2020 Rutherford Fellowship from Royal Society Te Apārangi.
22 October 2020 Students from Tauranga Boys’ College took out the top prize at the University of Waikato’s ChemQuest challenge held on 21 October at the Hamilton campus.
23 October 2020 The economic impact of Covid-19 has urged many New Zealanders to turn the pandemic into a catalyst for a career change, and in the case of Pukekohe-born Dean Morris, an opportunity to upskill and establish himself as a leader in a field with huge potential.
27 October 2020 Sport Waitaki's newest regional coordinator is University of Waikato alumna, former Sir Edmund Hillary Scholar, and champion cyclist Pip Sutton.
29 October 2020 Master of Professional Writing graduate, Jared Kane, received a $21,000 Creative New Zealand Arts Continuity Grant which brings him one step closer to turning his lifelong love of writing into a reality.
29 October 2020 The presidency of Donald Trump has been challenging for New Zealand’s foreign policy. Our commitment to multilateral solutions to global problems has run into a new isolationism in the United States.
29 October 2020 Four emerging University of Waikato researchers have received Health Research Council (HRC) Career Development Awards to build knowledge supporting Māori and Pacific wellbeing.
30 October 2020 The University of Waikato and a group of 12 Auckland Secondary Schools are launching an exciting and innovative way of educating student teachers for secondary school teachers in 2021.
31 October 2020 Dr Shari Gallop, a marine environmental scientist and University of Waikato Senior Lecturer based in Tauranga, has been awarded the New Zealand 2020 L’Oréal/UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship for her research on the science of restoring estuaries and how they will stand up to climate change.
1 November 2020 With mental health needs rising sharply and services already stretched, the University of Waikato is responding to the challenge with the launch of the new Bachelor of Nursing in 2021, integrating a focus on mental health and addictions throughout the three-year degree.
3 November 2020 Hashtags are a pervasive feature of social media posts and used widely in search engines.
3 November 2020 The University of Waikato is proud to host the next Boon Street Art Festival taking place from 16 - 20 November.
4 November 2020 A call to abolish New Zealand’s Human Rights Commission and dismiss it as a “hard left” body forgets the role both sides of politics played in establishing the organisation.
5 November 2020 University of Waikato researchers have found Māori patients receive fewer prescriptions for a common diabetes medication than non-Māori patients, and have worse blood sugar control as a result.
9 November 2020 Those wishing to attend universities in the United States will see that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growing shift to test-optional university admissions policies — or scrapping entrance tests altogether.
9 November 2020 Computer science student Leo Oliver-Dowling has been tinkering with computers since he was 13. Now, his skills have been rewarded with a postgraduate scholarship worth $20,000.
9 November 2020 When most of his Marlborough Boys' College mates were looking at tertiary study closer to home, track cyclist Callum Saunders had his eyes set on the University of Waikato.
10 November 2020 The University of Waikato’s Associate Professor Karen Barbour was one of only seven New Zealand scholars to receive a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2020.
10 November 2020 University of Waikato researchers will lead 13 new programmes supported by the Marsden Fund covering topics from the whole disciplinary spectrum.