Kelburn / July 2025
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Kamchatka earthquake is among top 10 strongest ever recorded. Here’s what they have in common
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The most powerful earthquakes recorded in modern history were all located on the 'Ring of Fire'—Dee Ninis and John Townend explain what makes this part of the world so volatile.
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AI will soon be able to audit all published research—what will that mean for public trust in science?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Some outright fraud and a much larger mass of garden-variety errors will likely be uncovered by a comprehensive audit of research publications, write Alexander Kaurov and Naomi Oreskes.
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Telling stories: four ways micro-influencers build and keep their loyal audiences
- Victoria University of Wellington
- How beauty and skincare micro-influencers craft stories to compel their followers to stick around—Shahper Richter, Alexander Richter, and Drew Franklin discuss the findings of their recent research.
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Maria’s mission to help others
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Maria Rabino-Neira, a Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law PhD student, has been awarded a Fulbright Award to conduct research into humanitarian legal protection at Harvard University.
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App research seeks to tell new story about sleep
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The designer of a new app, driftoff, to help students improve their sleep, tells a story of collaboration including the creation of original content by local contemporary writers.
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Financiers’ big reveal on how they impact the climate
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Large financial institutions are now required to report annually on their climate-related activities. Yinka Moses looks at how well they're doing.
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Future leaders of Malaysia share their Victoria experience
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Malaysian students at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington shared their stories of adapting to life in Aotearoa New Zealand with Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister when he and his delegation visited the Kelburn campus.
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Helping Manaaki scholarship students find their place
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumnus Dom Kafatolu is passionate about sharing the knowledge he learned during his time studying at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington with Manaaki scholarship students.
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Trailblazing editor of Māori literature
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Te Herenga Waka University Press editor Jasmine Sargent (Ngāti Porou) has scooped the Publishing Trailblazer of the Year Award at the 2025 Aotearoa NZ Book Industry Awards.
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We travelled to Antarctica to see if a Māori lunar calendar might help track environmental change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The mass arrival of Weddell seals outside New Zealand’s Scott Base is a sign of the height of summer in Antarctica, write Holly Winton and Ayla Hoeta.
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Annual Pasifika Week at Te Herenga Waka
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Pasifika pride will take centre stage from 21–26 July as Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington celebrates its annual Pasifika Week, a vibrant showcase of Pacific cultures, connections, and student excellence.
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Combining the world of finance with te ao Māori
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Hemi Pinfold-Whanga (Ngāi Tūhoe, Waikato-Tainui & Ngāti Maniapoto) envisions an Aotearoa where individualist economics are replaced by collectivist practices that benefit both our whānau and whenua.
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New AI strategy is long on ‘economic opportunity’ but short on managing ethical and social risk
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Aotearoa New Zealand is among 'the most relaxed nations' when it comes to the regulation of artificial intelligence, writes Andrew Lensen.
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Should the building industry keep using this controversial material?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Polycarbonate is commonly used in construction, especially for transparent roofing, but its downsides are seldom discussed, writes Emina Kristina Petrović.
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Student athletes going the distance
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Meet our five student athletes who are travelling to Germany to represent New Zealand at the World University Games in mid-July.
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Recognising leadership in the everyday
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Erin Roxburgh’s journey to the United Nations’ 2025 Commission on the Status of Women.
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Nafanua Purcell Kersel named as 2025 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The University's International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of Nafanua Purcell Kersel as the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence for 2025.
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“It’s business time”, celebrating the annual Gold Awards
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The judges’ brief for the annual Post Gold Awards is always to find the most inspiring local businesses—the ones that take off, generate cool ideas, and look out for people.
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A celestial journey through time and identity
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Animated film Vā Hina screened at the Mana Moana festival in Wellington, is a dreamscape that explores the shapeshifting manifestations of Pacific ancestor Hina.
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Hotspots for conservation of threatened native tree identified in Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Researchers pinpoint priority areas for efforts to save maire tawake, or swamp maire, from the deadly myrtle rust disease.
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Winning gender equity in sport with an ACE up her sleeve
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Robyn Cockburn receives an Active Champion for Equity (ACE) award for her work founding Wāhine Toa, a sports leadership programme for women across New Zealand and Oceania.
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