Victoria University of Wellington / August 2021
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington honours outstanding alumni
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- Six alumni of the University have been selected as Distinguished Alumni Award winners for 2021.
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Vice-Chancellor reflects on last year and looks to the future
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- Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) Rawinia Higgins recently hosted an alumni reception in Wellington, sharing their thoughts on the last year and updating alumni on plans for the future.
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Fossil record discoveries
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- New Zealand’s fossil record suggests more species lived in warmer waters. But the current rate of warming may break this pattern, says Te Herenga Waka PhD candidate Tom Womack.
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'The Blob' and the South American megadrought
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- Researchers have discovered a pool of unusually warm water off the east coast of New Zealand, and linked it to a 10-year megadrought in parts of South America.
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Ode to South Auckland wins National Schools Poetry Award
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- Caitlin Jenkins has won the 2021 IIML National Schools Poetry Award with a poem celebrating the rich histories of South Auckland.
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Fighting for representation of disabled people
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- Law student Alice Mander is striving towards creating better opportunities for disabled tertiary students and people in Aotearoa.
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Poukairangi (Māori) – Associate Dean (Māori) appointed to Te Wāhanga Tātai Hauora -Wellington Faculty of Health
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- Dr Clive Aspin has accepted the role of inaugural Poukairangi (Māori)|Associate Dean Māori in the Faculty of Health.
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Professor part of team given HDRUK Impact of the Year award for COVID vaccine study
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- A COVID vaccine study co-authored by Professor Colin Simpson, showing associated reductions in hospitalisations, was awarded the Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) Impact of the Year award in June.
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The patriotic power of words like ‘team’
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- The terms of togetherness created by the pandemic might be effective as a public health strategy, but require scrutiny once the dust settles, writes Annemarie Jutel
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The Olympics’ real role models
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- The recent Olympics showed we are entering a new era, one in which people can be honest about their triumphs and their struggles, with athletes proving themselves true role models, says Dr Dougal Sutherland.
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Egg-freezing’s equality problem
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- Associate Professor Rhonda M. Shaw lays out the pitfalls of egg-freezing as a reproductive technique in New Zealand – especially for trans and non-binary people.
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Afghanistan: The end of strategic optimism
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- It could be a long time before western nations try to intervene again to rebuild other countries' institutions and political systems, writes Robert Ayson.
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World's first live concert using XR technology at K-festival
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- Extended reality XR technology developed at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Computational Media Innovation Centre (CMIC) will be used at K-festival this weekend in a world first.
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Why New Zealand’s proposed law banning gay conversion practices is so unlikely to criminalise parents
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- Dr Eddie Clark from the Faculty of Law explains what is and isn't covered by the Conversation Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill which has just passed its first reading in Parliament.
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Te Herenga Waka researchers’ role in IPCC report
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- Three Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington scientists played key roles in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, released on Monday.
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Te Herenga Waka recognises entrepreneurial talent in Wellington
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- The Te Herenga Waka-sponsored New Thinking Award category in the 2021 Wellington Gold Awards has been awarded to Jessie Wang, founder of luxury leather goods brand Yu Mei.
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Scholarship success after family tragedy
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- A Porirua student’s hard work and ambition in the face of a major family tragedy, has seen her win a full scholarship to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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A warning for traditional universities
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- Nicholas Agar makes some predictions about the future of online learning, forecasting things may not go so well for universities committed to traditional teaching models.
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Water and climate: more certainty, more urgency
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- The IPCC's just-released report prominently features changes in the water cycle. James Renwick takes a look at the very serious consequences of small changes to our water systems.
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We have to act to slow down rising seas and melting glaciers
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- Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down, says glaciology Professor Nick Golledge as the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report is released.
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The global water cycle has become more intense
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- The global water cycle has become more intense, and that makes New Zealand’s wet regions wetter, and dry ones drier, explains Professor James Renwick as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers their Sixth Assessment Report.
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Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?
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- Labour's proposed social insurance scheme would be the biggest change to the welfare system since 1974, says Dr Michael Fletcher from the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies.
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When faces are partially covered, neither people nor algorithms are good at reading emotions
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- Are people or algorithms better at reading emotions? PhD researcher Harisu Shehu and Dr Hedwig Eisenbarth from Te Herenga Waka, along with Professor Will Browne from the Queensland University of Technology investigate.
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Female and early-career academics feel like imposters in some disciplines
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- The more an academic discipline is perceived to require raw talent or ‘brilliance’, the more women and early-career academics feel professionally inadequate—like ‘impostors’—finds a new study of United States academics by a team of psychology researchers.
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Tuatara’s speedy sperm may provide conservation clue, say study authors
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- PhD candidate Sarah Lamar has discovered that tuatara sperm are the speediest so far discovered in the reptile world.
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Gamers know the power of 'flow'—what if learners could harness it too?
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- A constant challenge in education is keeping the learner engaged, motivated, and connected. Dr Simon McCallum , Edward Schofield, and Professor Stephen Dobson explore how to apply gaming principles to learning.
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Wellington University further strengthens its offshore offerings
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- A new international partnership will allow students in central Viet Nam to study courses in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
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