There are 173 news stories from 2023 - showing page 1 of 6.
20 December 2022 With summer here, families and tourists will flock to New Zealand’s beaches, rivers and lakes to paddle, swim, surf, fish, boat and kayak. But despite our love of the water, New Zealanders have a terrible record of drowning deaths.
21 December 2022 It’s that time of year when school and university students eagerly (or nervously) await their end-of-year results – but also an opportunity to see where the country in general might have passed or failed.
3 January 2023 More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the proportion of people who live in towns or cities exceeds 86%. With our lives increasingly lived in urban environments, it’s vital for our personal wellbeing – and the planet’s – that city planners find ways to foster a connection with nature.
10 January 2023 University of Waikato alumni and both former and current academic staff have been named in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list recognising their outstanding services.
10 January 2023 Imagine being able to readily identify every plant and bird in your garden, on a hike or when showing off our beautiful country to visiting family and friends.
16 January 2023 The humanitarian aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, who has dual New Zealand and British citizenship, has been missing in Ukraine for more than ten days.
16 January 2023 The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek is reportedly sanguine about the advent of deep learning AIs and their potential threat to creative work. In response to the suggestion that Artificial Intelligence (AI) “will be the death of learning & so on”, he said “NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the ‘learning’ happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want.”
16 January 2023 A scholarship has been established at the University of Waikato to remember alumnus and highly respected University staffer Huy Vu.
17 January 2023 The art critic and writer will spend the next 12 months working on three major projects.
26 January 2023 Protecting the environment has always been important to Maketū-raised Ashleigh Ngow who completed the Bachelor of Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato in October 2022 and is the recipient of the Dr Andrew Smith Medal for Academic Excellence.
26 January 2023 Hundreds of volcanologists and earth scientists from around the world meet in Rotorua for the IAVCEI 2023 Scientific Assembly, hosted by the University of Waikato.
31 January 2023 It takes a special person to receive two scholarships from the University of Waikato but that’s what happened to Bachelor of Science student Brooklyn Edwards. Brooklyn is doing a double major in Psychology and Human Resource Management and is about to launch into her third year.
1 February 2023 The University of Waikato has announced its latest round of academic promotions.
3 February 2023 The heated (and often confused) debate about “co-governance” in Aotearoa New Zealand inevitably leads back to its source, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. But, as its long-contested meanings demonstrate, very little in the Treaty of Waitangi is straightforward.
10 February 2023 Defenders of CEOs often cite difficult-to-define attributes to justify their lavish remuneration. It was chutzpah that empowered Elon Musk to make Tesla the world’s most valuable automaker. At the end of his storied career as CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch chose “Straight from the Gut” as the subtitle of his 2001 memoir. More recently, we’ve seen costly miscalculations when overmighty CEOs go with their guts.
13 February 2023 The University of Waikato was proud to host the 4th Aotearoa Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit Series over two days on campus last week (9-10 February) supported by co-hosts Waikato Tainui, Te Pūkenga, and the Waikato Wellbeing Project.
14 February 2023 As the cleanup from the Auckland floods continues, and Cyclone Gabrielle hits already saturated parts of the North Island, many people and communities are wondering about the future of their cherished places and homes.
16 February 2023 The latest report into the rights of children in Aotearoa New Zealand has painted a mixed picture of how the country treats young people.
17 February 2023 The University of Waikato is assuring students affected by Cyclone Gabrielle that study will still be here waiting for them, when they’re ready and able.
22 February 2023 Generative AIs are producing journalism, writing poems, and telling jokes. Sure, the op-eds, poetry, and humour of early-2023 AIs aren’t all that good.
24 February 2023 One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border – and over the UN Charter and international law in the process – the world is less certain and more dangerous than ever.
28 February 2023 Universities and schools have entered a new phase in how they need to address academic integrity as our society navigates a second era of digital technologies, which include publicly available generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT. Such platforms allow students to generate novel text for written assignments.
1 March 2023 While most of us were on summer holiday, a group of third-year University of Waikato students were halfway around the world, combining study with an overseas experience.
1 March 2023 The University of Waikato is proud to host the annual New Zealand Economics Forum, which returns as an in-person event at its Hamilton Campus Thursday 2 and Friday 3 March 2023.
1 March 2023 University of Waikato is preparing to welcome venner, or new friends, from Norway next week. The Standing Committee on Education and Research from the Norwegian Parliament will visit the Hamilton campus on Tuesday, 7 March.
6 March 2023 Award-winning poet and University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Tracey Slaughter has spent the last nine months reviewing more than 1000 poems for this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: After-burn.
6 March 2023 The University of Waikato has welcomed a record 211 new students into its Registered Nursing programmes for 2023, more than doubling the intake from 2022.
7 March 2023 The University of Waikato has awarded its prestigious University of Waikato Medal to alumnus Rob McGowan for his significant and sustained contribution to protecting Aotearoa’s Indigenous ecosystems.
7 March 2023 University of Waikato law student and Hillary Scholar Ally Wollaston has returned to New Zealand with three gold medals from the UCI Nations Cup track competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.
8 March 2023 More than 85 people gathered to celebrate the University of Waikato’s School of Psychology on Sunday at the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts in Hamilton.