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20 February 2010
Recent electronic engineering student wins best paper at international imaging conference
In January 2010 Dr Adrian Dorrington, the leader of the "Chronoptics" 3D Range Imaging Group in the Department of Engineering at the University of Waikato , took four of his research students to the Electronic Imaging
Symposium in San Jose (California, USA). Shane McClure, Refael Whyte, and
Cameron Kelly (final year electronic engineering students) presented their year BE research projects to a "standing room only" audience in the Image
Processing: Machine Vision Applications III conference. John Godbaz, a PhD student, presented his paper in the Computational Imaging VIII conference
Shane McClure was presented with the best overall paper award for his outstanding paper entitled "Resolving depth-measurement ambiguity with commercially available range imaging cameras", This is especially impressive, not only because of the prestigious nature of the conference and the high calibre of the international papers considered for this award, but also because Shane was presenting his undergraduate research work and this was his first scholarly publication and first conference presentation.
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12 February 2010
EBOP to fund major University role
Marine research in the Bay of Plenty has been given a huge boost with the announcement that the regional council will fund an important University of Waikato role.
Environment Bay of Plenty has committed to fund $1.5 million over 10 years for a University of Waikato Chair in Coastal Science.
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12 February 2010
Freshwater jellyfish hunt turns up trumps
A prolonged spell of warm weather could see Hamilton Lake filling up with tiny jelly fish. That's one of the fundings of a Summer Scholarship study by Waikato University biology student Kevin Eastwood. He has been working out how far these odd little creatures, originally from China, have spread since they were first discovered in Lake Taupo in the 1950s. He's found they're in many more lakes than previously thought - including Hamilton Lake - although most of the time they're almost invisible.
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12 February 2010
Intercoast welcomed to Hamilton and Tauranga
A major international research project has officially started, with welcomes for the Intercoast team at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, and in the Bay of Plenty. The Bremen University and Waikato University project, driven mainly by Waikato's Professor Terry Healy and Bremen's Professor Dr Gerold Wefer, began on February 9 with a powhiri at the Hamilton campus. That was followed by a powhiri at Whareroa Marae in Mt Maunganui and a function in Tauranga hosted by the German Embassy. The Bay of Plenty region will benefit hugely from the research work that will be done by the Intercoast project.
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12 February 2010
Trigger happy student
Waikato University science student Myles Browne-Cole is the first outsider to win the Australian National ISSF Trap shooting title. He recently returned from the Australian national championships in Brisbane having beating 139 others, mostly Australians, for the gold medal in the men's trap event. The 21-year-old held off shooters from Australia, New Zealand Scotland, England, Isle of Mann, Canada and Fiji, including the double Olympic gold medallist Michael Diamond.
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3 February 2010
Solid start to uni
Former Hamilton Boys' High School student Sam Waetford is one of eight first-year university students to be awarded a Solid Energy Scholarship. Solid Energy's tertiary scholarships are open to students from its mining regions -- the West Coast, Southland and the Waikato -- and are awarded annually.
Sam's enrolled for an engineering degree at Waikato and the scholarship will give him $2000 a year for four years.
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21 January 2010
Ice warmer than expected
Summer in Antarctica was warmer than Waikato University masters student Stephen Archer had expected and he found he was better prepared than he needed to be. Archer spent almost a month on the ice this season and says the heating element and insulation that he put into his sampling rig to keep his samples from freezing wasn't needed.
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19 January 2010
Heading home from the Ice
Waikato University student Tanya O'Neill is spending eight weeks in Antarctica as part of her PhD on soil sciences. In a series of occasional columns, she shares some of the highlights and lowlights of life on the ice:
The year has certainly started off at blinding pace; as I write this final column I've got just two days left on the Ice.
I am very happy with all our team accomplished this campaign. The remainder of our fieldwork in the Dry Valleys went wonderfully; the weather gods were definitely shining on us as we had day-after-day of pleasantly mild weather, while Scott Base was blanketed in snow many days...
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7January 2010
Camping out in Antarctica
Waikato University student Tanya O'Neill is spending eight weeks in Antarctica as part of her PhD on soil sciences. In a series of occasional columns, she shares some of the highlights and lowlights of life on the ice:
Clothes washing? Definitely not. Toilet facilities? Well, that depends on your take on such amenities. Baby wipe baths? Absolutely.
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5 January 2010
The icing on an Antarctic Christmas
Fifty years ago John McCraw and Graeme Claridge tucked into a Christmas meal of pemmican, with a side helping of pemmican. And for dessert - a tiny slice of fruit cake that the pair had saved special. They were in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, reputed to be the coldest, driest place on the planet. And they were the first in the world to study the continent's soil. Read the entire story.
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19 November 2009
A match made in Bremen
A major research collaboration between the University of Waikato and the University of Bremen in Germany is about to start with 13 students enrolled for doctorate degrees all focusing on aspects of marine and environmental change. . Read the entire story.
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12 November 2009
Gas-fired electricity generation you can carry around
Justin Hyde has all the components for a portable electricity generator that runs off a camping gas canister - now he just has to put them all together.
The Waikato University part-time lecturer and tutor graduated in October with a PhD supervised by Professor Janis Swan. He has been working on how to put small, low-wattage fuel cells together into a unit that delivers a useful amount of power, and run it off a readily available fuel supply. Read the entire story.
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10 November 2009
Scientist goes to extremes
Microbiologist Craig Cary likes going to extremes. He's spent 25 years researching the bacteria that live in deep ocean hot vents, and now he's turned his attention to microbes in one of the coldest and most remote places on the planet - Antarctica.
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29 October 2009
Star turns by Waikato chemists
Sparks danced and blazed as smoke steadily boiled over the top of the beaker. Seconds before Bill Henderson had added tinfoil to liquid bromine. Nasty stuff, bromine, he says. Earlier Brian Nicholson had produced a spectacular, oozing mass of foam by combining hydrogen peroxide, iodide and detergent. The two Waikato University chemists were staging a small demonstration of chemistry. Earlier this month they were the star turns at the Kudos Awards, when they'd put on a science class at the end of the evening. Read the entire story.
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20 October 2009
High school student a star in University paper
Hillcrest High School student Kejia Wang received the top mark in a first year chemistry paper taught at the University of Waikato. Kejia, 18, is involved in Waikato University's Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource (STAR) programme which gives senior high school students the opportunity to take on university papers while still at school.
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19 October 2009
PhD study for clever teen
While most 18-year-olds are thinking about starting university, Michael Hoy has completed two degrees and has just started his third -- a PhD. He recently moved to Sydney to begin doctoral study at the University of New South Wales, but will shoot back to Hamilton at the end of the month for Waikato University's graduation day.
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15 October 2009
Skeletons in the office
When a family friend asked Nadia Williams if she'd like the skeleton of a red deer he'd found on his Taupo station, the answer was an enthusiastic yes. For her advanced zoology class the third-year bachelor of science and education student had been asked to prepare a skeletal mount.
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13 October 2009
NZ cities to benefit from Waikato University project
A major project at Waikato University which rebuilds native ecosystems in urban areas will now be spread to three New Zealand cities. The university's urban restoration project has had four years of funding from the government's Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, and has just been granted another three years of funding at nearly $300,000 a year.
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5 October 2009
Manuka honey's medical marvels measured in gold
The scientist who discovered the original manuka honey activity has put his name to a new standard that guarantees consumers are getting the genuine article. The surging global demand for the proven health values of New Zealand manuka honey is creating a major ethical concern in the way it is being marketed to consumers, says Professor Molan MBE, from the University of Waikato's Honey Research Unit.
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1 October 2009
Getting the flavour of research
Producing kiwifruit with more intense flavour is on the agenda for Waikato University's Dr Mike Clearwater. He joined the Biological Sciences Department as a lecturer in January, after spending almost nine years working on kiwifruit with Plant and Food Research, in Te Puke.
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1 October 2009
Blogging network makes science more accessible
Four Waikato scientists are among 25 bloggers whose output will be easier to find with the launch of a new blogging network. Sciblogs, run by the Wellington-based Science Media Centre, covers topics from healthcare to climate change and is intended to become an online hub for discussion of scientific topics.
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29 September 2009
University duo finalists in Kudos awards
A Waikato University duo is a finalist in the Kudos awards which celebrate science excellence in the region. Chemistry Professors Bill Henderson and Brian Nicholson are finalists in the Science Teacher/Educator/Communicator category of the Hamilton Science Excellence Awards. The category recognises contributions towards encouraging an understanding and appreciation of science to Waikato young people and the wider community.
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21 September 2009
Student wins big in Paris
Cambridge High School student Jake Martin has won a big award at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Paris. Four days a week the Year 13 house leader, member of the school student executive, medal winning rower, basketballer and inventor drives to Waikato University for chemistry and physics classes and to do research. Jake's home-built gasifier turns wood chips into clean-burning fuel gas and has already won him $11,000 at New Zealand's Realise the Dream awards for research excellence and entry to the Paris contest. The Paris prize is one of the European Intergovernmental Research Organisations travel awards - an all expenses paid trip to spend a week with the European Fusion Development Agreement in the UK in 2010. New Zealand's Realise the Dream is a national event celebrating school students who have done an excellent piece of research or technological development. Jake came to Waikato University on a STARS course, which allows well-prepared Year 13 students to experience university-level study while still at school.
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21 September 2009
Chemistry staff member named as finalist in Kudos awards
Waikato Chemistry Professors Bill Henderson and Brian Nicholson have been named as finalists in a category in the Kudos awards. The Kudos Hamilton Science Excellence Awards aim to raise the profile of science achievements in the region, recognise the contributions of scientists working in the Waikato River catchment area and encourage high school students to enter sciences. Prof Henderson and Prof Nicholson are finalists in the Science Teacher/Educator/Communicator category. A former Waikato University student and staff member, Priscilla Wehi, is a finalist in the Emerging Scientist category. There are six categories in the awards; the winners are named at a function on October 14 which has $24,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.
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11 September 2009
Top scholarship for Waikato heavy vehicle researcher
A research proposal to develop energy-efficient heavy vehicles has won a University of Waikato engineering student a prestigious Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship. Whitianga man Leon Henderson will receive $253,000 over three years, enabling him to work alongside top researchers at Cambridge University on a project to develop a regenerative braking system for large trucks. Read the entire story
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7 September 2009
University professor invited to give memorial lecture
Waikato University's Professor David Lowe has been invited to give the biennial Ron McDonald Memorial Lecture of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Society of Soil Science in October. Prof Lowe, from the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, led an international soil science field trip "Ashes to Issues" on volcanic ash soils (Andisols) of central North Island last year and Australian participants nominated him for this lecture award as a result. He is the first New Zealand recipient of the award. His talk, to be delivered at the University of Queensland in Brisbane on October 23, is entitled "Where pedology meets geology - insights into Andisols in Australasia". Prof Lowe was the Norman Taylor Memorial Lecturer of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science in 2002.
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3 September 2009
Waikato student swaps sunshine for autumn chill
University of Waikato engineering student Leon Henderson has spent the last few months tinkering with solar technology as part of a research group that's developed a revolutionary new way to integrate long run roofing iron with a solar energy transfer system. But later this month, Henderson, who comes from Whitianga, will swap spring sunshine for the chill of a British autumn when he heads to Cambridge University to take up a prestigious research scholarship. Read the entire story
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1 September 2009
Waikato wins $2.7 million FRST contract
Earth and Ocean Sciences Professor Peter Kamp has won a $2.7 million, six-year contract with the Foundation for Research Science and Technology. The proposal is for tectono-sedimentary framework for increased oil and gas resource exploration in New Zealand's frontier basins.
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1 September 2009
Doctoral Student off to Tibet
Waikato University Earth Sciences student Tanya O'Neill heads to the Tibetan Plateau in September for three weeks to help with a Chinese project which is looking at how climate change is impacting on permafrost.
She will be a field assistant, which involves excavating soil and drilling permafrost to take samples. The project is being run by the University of Beijing and researchers will take groups of their students on to the sites as part of their course work.
O'Neill is in the early stages of a PhD looking at the impact of human activity on antarctic soils.
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1 September 2009
Former professor wins category in innovators awards
Former Waikato University Professor Richard Warrick won the agriculture and environment category of the annual NBR and Bayer Innovators Awards announced last week. Prof Warrick is a director and Chairman of the Board of CLIMsystems Ltd which was spun out from work at Waikato University's International Global Change Institute. CLIMsystems recently scored a $1 million deal with New York City to help it manage the impact of climate change on its water supply, storm and waste water systems. The climate change modelling company was spun out in 2005 and works by letting users input their own data such as temperatures, rainfall, and any previous extreme events, onto a PC or laptop. The software programme then quickly models future scenarios. Prof Warrick is now retired from Waikato University but remains Professor of Climate Change Adaptation in the Faculty of Science, Health and Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
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31 August 2009
Top scholarship winners head to Cambridge, UC Berkeley
Waikato scholarship successes, including top scholarships to Cambridge University and the University of California at Berkeley, have been celebrated at a New Zealand Vice-Chancellors Committee (NZVCC) Awards event at the university. Successful Waikato University applicants include Ben Deadman, who will take up a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship worth £60,000 over three years to read for a PhD at Cambridge University in biochemistry. Leon Henderson, who's been working on a project to commercialise solar technology at Waikato, receives $90,000 to spend three years at Cambridge doing PhD research into a regenerative braking system for large trucks, while Andy Yeh has been awarded $30,000 for a one-year Masters in financial engineering at UC Berkeley. Henderson and Yeh are among six recipients of William Georgetti Scholarships, awarded for post-graduate study in a field that will benefit the social, cultural and economic development of New Zealand. The NZVCC administers approximately 40 scholarships. This year 10 Waikato students have won NZVCC awards.
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20 August 2009
Veterinary antibiotics an unknown factor in environment
While increasing amounts of veterinary antibiotics are used on New Zealand farms, no one has any real idea of their fate once they've passed through the animals.
Prakash Srinivasan is currently studying this problem for his PhD at Landcare Research in Hamilton. Jointly supervised by Landcare Research scientist, Dr Ajit K Sarmah and Waikato University's Associate Professor Merilyn Manley-Harris and Professor Alistair Wilkins, Prakash is at this stage working on preliminary laboratory experiments.
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20 August 2009
Waikato student studies simplest ecosystems
A Waikato University Masters student will get the chance to study life in one of the planets most extreme environments when he arrives in Antarctica this November. Stephen Archer has two research scholarships to study the microbial communities of the melt-water ponds on Bratina Island, near Scott Base.
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6 August 2009
Waikato University researcher aims to make kokako feel home away from home
We all get a warm fuzzy feeling when we hear a familiar accent in a strange place - it can make you feel like you're home away from home. There's evidence that birds respond in a very similar way, and in a project starting next month [August] researchers at the University of Waikato will use birdsong 'dialects' to help re-establish native kokako populations in two North Island forest locations.
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30 July 2009
Waikato University seeks summer research students for sun, sea
If you fancy spending the summer watching the waves at Raglan, or sunbathing for several hours a day, or even sampling fine wines - all in the name of research, then a University of Waikato Summer Research Scholarship may be for you.
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29 July 2009
Geosciences book wins category at Montana Book Awards
A book part-sponsored by Waikato University and with contributions from eight academics has won the environment category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. "A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century", was published by the Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science.
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29 July 2009
Prestigious soil society fellowship awarded
The Soil Science Society of America has made Waikato University's Associate Professor Louis Schipper a society fellow - its highest honour. The society has more than 6000 members worldwide but only a handful (0.3% each year) are made fellows. Dr Schipper, who earned his BSc, MSc and PhD at Waikato, is in the Earth and Ocean Sciences Department and specialises in soil biogeochemistry.
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27 July 2009
Making soy milk a digestible alternative
Research at the University of Waikato may provide an answer for lactose-intolerant people who turn to soy milk only to find it causes flatulence. Biochemical engineering Masters student Anila Rajan is examining the practicalities of using a peanut extract to manufacture soy milk without the embarrassing social side-effects.
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24 July 2009
Biology students bring home medals
New Zealand's top biology secondary school students have picked up a silver medal and two bronze medals at an international competition. The four students were among several hosted at Waikato University earlier this year for a training camp. It's the fourth year Waikato has hosted the camp which doubles as the selection process for the New Zealand team to attend the International Biology Olympiad.
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23 July 2009
Meeting of minds to discuss the brain
About 70 of the world's leading researchers into the human brain met recently at the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden - and agreed to disagree. Among them was Waikato University physicist Marcus Wilson, the only representative from New Zealand. He said the aim of the conference, on the complex dynamics of brain systems, was to discuss the latest theories and research.
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22 July 2009
Water, water everywhere - but not enough in the Whanganui
A University of Waikato science student has come up with a possible solution to the controversy over the loss of water from the Whanganui River due to the Tongariro Power Scheme at the southern end of Lake Taupo: a 20km-long tunnel which would take water from Lake Taupo after it's been through Tokaanu and return it to the Whanganui River.
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21 July 2009
Waikato researchers probe young people's hopes and fears
There aren't many budding volcanologists who are trained in childcare and have experience in property management, but University of Waikato student Holly Goddard has proved she can turn her hand to most things, leading her to a summer research project in science education, looking at the hopes and fears of young people for the future, with a particular focus on the environment.
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17 July 2009
Waikato University Engineering Open Day draws the crowds
Waikato University's Engineering Open Day is proving more popular each year with secondary school students. About 120 students from as far afield as Havelock North and Kerikeri descended upon Waikato University on July 16 for Engineering Open Day.
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16 July 2009
Basketballer has big plans
Eighteen-year-old shooting guard Isaac Hayes would like a career in professional basketball but he also knows they're hard to come by and keep, so he's taking out insurance by enrolling in a four-year mechanical engineering degree at Waikato University.
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13 July 2009
Bigger, better, faster
Waikato University has unveiled two new microscopes to the world. A $1 million Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope replaces its 20-year-old predecessor and comes with a cryogenic preparation unit, allowing it to examine hydrated samples of materials such as liquids or plant matter. It is capable of viewing material down to less than a 1000th of a millimetre.
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7 July 2009
Restoration work the focus of Waikato University workshop
Ecological, Maori and legal issues around urban restoration are on the agenda at a Waikato University workshop. The three-day workshop, beginning July 7, is the culmination of four years of an urban restoration research programme, led by Waikato University researchers. The programme was funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology to the tune of $398,000 a year for four years.
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2 July 2009
New Antarctic Youth Ambassador
Waikato University earth scientist Natalie Miedema is the winner of this year's Antarctic New Zealand Youth Ambassador Award. The award was developed by Antarctica New Zealand and the Sir Peter Blake Trust and is aimed at engaging young New Zealanders in Antarctic environmental issues. Miedema was presented with her award by Lady Blake at the annual Antarctica New Zealand conference being held in Auckland this week .Read the entire story
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1 July 2009
Book on geosciences makes Montana finals
A book on the geological history and landscapes of New Zealand A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century is a finalist in this year's Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the environment category. The book was published last year by the Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science. It was sponsored in part by the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Waikato. Read the entire story
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25 June 2009
Chemistry makes connections at Waikato University
Switching school kids on to chemistry is all in a day's work for Waikato University professor Brian Nicholson. He's just had 88 year 13 students in his lab, and happily reports there wasn't one explosion but plenty of enthusiasm at the recent Analytical Chemistry Competition, where students came from around the Waikato and Bay of Plenty to get their hands on test tubes and potions in a chemistry challenge. Read the entire story
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19 June 2009
Invention leads to more overseas travel
A home-built gasifier - a machine that turns wood chips into clean burning fuel gas - is having major spin-offs for Cambridge High School student Jake Martin, who drives to Waikato University four days a week for chemistry and physics classes and to do research. Read the entire story
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15 June 2009
University wins with Fieldays stand
The University of Waikato's main Fieldays stand, on the theme of My Land, Our Environment, has won Best Premier Feature Site 2009. The stand focuses on several key areas of research and highlights their relevance and significance to the Waikato and at a national level - allowing university staff and researchers to engage with the community and showcase what Waikato University offers land-based industries. The stand featured the rear end of a cow, live fish in tanks, and a sample stand of Waikato bush plus birdsong. Prime Minister John Key spent time at the stand on opening day, discussing the research being run by the university. Read the entire story and see pictures of the site
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12 June 2009
Waikato University student rolls out a win
A University of Waikato student has emerged victorious from a mountain of toilet paper. Philip Rowe, 21, has won an annual University of Waikato electrical engineering competition designed to help third year students apply their knowledge. The students have created a variety of inventions in the nine years the Mechatronics Cup competition has run. This year, they designed and built an automated device that can count the number of sheets on a roll of toilet paper.Read the entire story
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12 June 2009
Bioenergy futures considered
As the world searches for new and more sustainable sources of energy one solution which may not have received enough consideration is burning wood to generate electricity.
Speaking at the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays, Waikato University Biological Sciences Professor Hugh Morgan said with peak oil somewhere on the horizon, establishing alternative liquid fuel supplies is obviously a necessary safeguard. Read the entire story
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11 June 2009
Organic pest control is a target for research
Organic market gardeners could look forward to the development of a new, natural pest control thanks to University of Waikato student research which has just been featured at the latest NZBIO industry networking event at the university. Read the entire story
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9 June 2009
Waikato University showcases 'speaking billboard' at Fieldays
Visitors to this year's National Agricultural Fieldays may find themselves assailed by a newly-developed 'speaking billboard' promoting the University of Waikato. Passersby will activate a movement sensor in the free-standing signboard, triggering one of a series of recorded messages about the University. Read the entire story
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9 June 2009
First-year engineering student boat race
The University of Waikato's annual first-year engineering student boat race saw students braving the weather with pirate costumes and smiles, as they raced boats designed and built themselves for a class project. Competing on the rough seas of the campus lakes, the first-year students also got to test their boats against those of graduate students and staff. See the full story and more pictures
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8 June 2009
Solar power puts student in top awards
An engineering doctoral student working on new solar panel technology is one of three University of Waikato students who've made it through to the second round of the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year awards. Tim Anderson is part of Waikato's solar engineering research group that's devised a way to incorporate solar panel technology into long-run roofing. The new technology, currently being tested and tweaked, incorporates a cooling system to maximise energy efficiencies and can be set up to generate electricity and heat water. The winners of the MacDiarmid Award, for which Waikato University is a silver sponsor, will be announced in August.
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8 June 2009
Memorial lecturer talks at Waikato Univeristy
Waikato University this month hosts the Leonard Cockayne Memorial Lecturer for 2009, Professor Peter Lockhart FRSNZ, from the Allan Wilson Centre, Massey University. Prof Lockhart talks at Waikato University about the DNA of plants, as part of a tour of New Zealand. The fossil record of plants and their pollen has long been recognised as a kind of black box recorder or diary for evolutionary history in New Zealand. However, its interpretation has only recently been corroborated through reading the stories in DNA. The talk will outline some of the recent discoveries and describe how new sequencing technologies are being used to further understanding of the nature and future of New Zealand plant species. It takes place on Wednesday June 17 at 7.30pm in A.G.30.
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26 May 2009
Waikato Uni goes bush at Fieldays
Waikato University's projects are highlighted at Fieldays this year where the university is once again a strategic partner. Its site embraces this year's Fieldays theme, My Land, Our Environment, by showcasing research that contributes to a sustainable environment - something Waikato University has been doing since its inception in the 1960s.
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25 May 2009
One fish, two fish, pest fish, shoo fish
The Waikato basin is "pest fish central", with the invasive koi carp making up nearly 80% of the biomass of the fish living here, say University of Waikato researchers.
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18 May 2009
New research centre to receive millions in German funding
A major centre of research excellence is being established in Tauranga involving the University of Waikato and Germany's University of Bremen. Called INTERCOAST, interdisciplinary researchers from the two universities will work together on projects that focus on the Bay of Plenty coast and inner continental shelf, and comparable areas of the North Sea.
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5 May 2009
Sun shines on Waikato University research
Waikato University research has developed a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to generate electricity and heat water by integrating long run roofing iron with a solar energy transfer system.
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| 27 April 2009 |
Mixing it up for Eco-Minds |
| 24 April 2009 |
Honey producers, consumers winners in new testing method |
| 24 April 2009 |
Annual geology lecture takes place at Waikato University |
| 21 April 2009 |
US award for Waikato academic's work on ozone layer |
| 16 April 2009 |
Honey breakthrough could lead to 'designer scrub' |
| 16 April 2009 |
Waikato University chemistry student to mingle with Nobel laureates |
| 13 March 2009 |
Waikato graduate picks up water prize |
| 5 March 2009 |
Lawful ways to clean up lakes |
| 2 March 2009 |
Families turn out for university earth trail |
| 26 February 2009 |
Waikato engineering student takes message to the streets |
| 23 February 2009 |
Chance encounter of a shrubby kind |
| 17 February 2009 |
Waikato professor wins Agilent Foundation grant |
| 11 February 2009 |
Exploring Waikato's environment |
| 11 February 2009 |
Ice could hold clue to greenhouse effect |
| 10 February 2009 |
Beach safe: Waikato research student aims to predict rips |
| 30 January 2009 |
Scholarship for oil rock research |
| 9 January 2009 |
Hydro spills prove need for extra storage - expert |
| 7 January 2009 |
Model behaviour from university scientists |
| 7 January 2009 |
Waikato scientists put on ice for summer |
