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• • ‘Natural seismometers’ confirmed on sea floor

    • 4 Mar 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Groundbreaking research by the University's Dr Jamie Howarth and his collaborators could help with forecasting big earthquakes.
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• • Rankings confirm global standing

    • 3 Mar 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The results from the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject put Wellington’s University in the top 1% of the world’s more than 18,000 universities for 20 subjects.
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• • Six VUP books on national awards shortlist

    • 2 Mar 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The University's publisher and our creative writing school graduates dominate the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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• • Demonstrating success

    • 1 Mar 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • For Bing Xue, the most exciting part of becoming one of the youngest professors in the Wellington Faculty of Engineering is showing her students what is possible.
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• • Space: Robinson Research Institute’s next frontier

    • 28 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Director of the Robinson Research Institute Dr Nick Long explains how his teams' expertise in electromagnetic technologies is taking them to space.
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• • The value a society places on knowledge is judged by how it treats public libraries

    • 25 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Anne Goulding from the School of Information Management explains why the part privatisation of Wellington's Central Library is dangerous in this opinion piece originally published on Stuff.co.nz
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• • Turfing Latin part of a disturbing pattern

    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Josh King explains how the axing of Latin from NCEA is indicative of a wider trend in New Zealand and the world.
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• • Wireless for sound

    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Alumnus Harsh Tataria, who graduated here in 2017, is waiting to return from New Zealand to his job teaching communications engineering at Lund University.
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• • Drilling into Peter Barrett’s career

    • 23 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Emeritus Professor Peter Barrett FRSNZ, FGS explains how he became Aotearoa New Zealand's pre-eminent Antarctic scientist and climate change spokesperson.
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• • ‘I don’t know anybody who’s got a job as interesting as mine’

    • 23 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Shanny Campbell tracks her career from a Master in Development Studies to country director of Tajikistan for the Asian Development Bank.
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• • Storytelling to come to terms with the pandemic

    • 23 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Storytelling is a crucial coping device, enabling you to situate yourself in relation to a bigger event, write professors Stephen Dobson and Donna Prendergast.
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• • Climate Change Committee advice will shift our impacts—to where?

    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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• • Climate Change Commission advice will shift our impacts—to where?

    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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• • Local government’s Māori representation gap

    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Jack Vowles puts paid to the claim Māori wards are unnecessary because Māori are proportionally represented in local government.
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• • Women’s power in anonymity

    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Netflix show Bridgerton shows another side to the agency and influence of women in heavily patriarchal societies, writes Rachel Boddy.
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• • Scholarships reward school students’ resilience

    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The new Ngā Hoe a Kupe Pathfinder Scholarships have been awarded to twelve young women from Wellington secondary schools.
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• • Why impeachment might not be a good idea

    • 12 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Hayden Thorne is no fan of former US president Donald Trump, but asks if a public impeachment is really the best way forward?
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• • Researchers illuminate a role for moonlight in fisheries management

    • 9 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A University-led study shows how the lunar cycle influences the behaviour of larval fish predators and prey and as a result growth rates.
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• • Artist reworks Adam Art Gallery building for new show

    • 9 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • US-based Walters Prize winner Kate Newby is internationally sought after for her architectural 'interventions' that lead to new appreciations of locations and materials.
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• • Study finds birdsong remains the same after 1080 drops

    • 8 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Researchers find no evidence forests 'fall silent' because poison is killing large numbers of the very birds it aims to protect.
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• • Public Programme Feb – May 2021

    • 8 Feb 2021
    • Adam Art Gallery
    • Details of the public programme will be posted soon.
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• • Schools are failing to identify high-ability science students, research shows

    • 3 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand's smartest young science students aren't always identified in the school system, indicates new research.
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• • Call for 'immediate and decisive action' on climate change

    • 1 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The Climate Change Commission's Professor James Renwick outlines its long-anticipated advice to the New Zealand Government.
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• • Study shows benefits of wetland restoration

    • 1 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Gains in soil quality contribute to a more stable climate, diminished flooding, and cleaner waterways, says study leader Dr Stephanie Tomscha.
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• • The politics of public spaces

    • 1 Feb 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand’s history of the built environment is not immune from the discrimination seen in the US and other countries, writes Christine McCarthy.
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• • The Treaty's role in our COVID success

    • 27 Jan 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand's handling of the pandemic could be partly down to its Treaty of Waitangi relationship and embracing of Māori ideas, writes Professor Nicholas Agar.
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• • Finding where to sit at Biden's Summit for Democracy

    • 27 Jan 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • On accepting its invitation, the Ardern Government should encourage deliverables that reflect New Zealand’s inclusive vision, writes Professor Robert Ayson.
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• • A solid foundation

    • 27 Jan 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • In this, the second in a series about the plaques around Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, we learn about the foundation stone and the history of the Hunter Building.
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• • New Zealand needs to start taking extreme heat seriously

    • 27 Jan 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Dr Luke Harrington hopes in the next few years we might see a heatwave warning index alongside the UV index for sunburn risk on the nightly weather forecast.
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• • Alumnus finds commercial success in scientific discoveries

    • 26 Jan 2021
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Science innovation has been the cornerstone of Dr Garth Smith’s success, seeing him commercialise three scientific discoveries from his home in Guilin, in the Guangxi Province in China.
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