Victoria University / June 2015
July 2015 | May 2015-
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Top scholar and senior leader appointed Provost at Victoria University
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington has appointed Professor Wendy Larner, an internationally respected scholar and a senior academic leader at one of the world’s top ranked universities, to the role of Provost.
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Can you see time? Four artists visualise an extended present at the Adam Art Gallery
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Adam Art Gallery’s newest exhibition, The Specious Present, which opens on Saturday 11 July, brings together four artists whose works address time as their subject.
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Faculty of Education to move to Kelburn
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Education, along with the University’s Foundation Studies programme, will relocate to the University’s Kelburn campus early next year (2016).
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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MDMA legalisation will be a hard pill for New Zealand to swallow
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Victoria University's Professor Susan Schenk and Professor David Harper was published on Stuff, 29 June.
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Victoria volunteers play vital role
- Victoria University of Wellington
- When a fellow student mentioned to Sarah Dodd that they chose to study at Victoria because of the support offered by Victoria’s Disability Services, she realised she plays a vital role in helping students with disabilities enjoy their time at University.
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Public Programme: The Specious Present
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Join us at 6pm on Friday 10 July at the Adam Art Gallery for the opening of The Specious Present: Andrew Beck, David Claerbout, Colin McCahon, Keith Tyson Andrew Beck will speak about his work in the Gallery at 2pm on Sunday 12 July. Future public programme details coming soon!
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Specious Present
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- The Specious Present Andrew Beck, David Claerbout, Colin McCahon, Keith Tyson 11 July – 20 September 2015 The ‘specious present’ is a term applied by the philosopher and psychologist William James to that short duration of time the human mind appears to be able to experience, which exists between past and future and which is longer than the singular moment of the actual present.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Young poets given boost to start writing
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Aspiring young writers from secondary schools around New Zealand will be encouraged to explore their poetry writing skills, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign run by Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
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Participants, processes and principles in international law-making as focus of conference
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Academics, practitioners and NGO and government experts on the law of armed conflict, use of force, private international law and financial regulation are among the speakers at an upcoming conference hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Learning about light, with a bang
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Members of the public will have the opportunity to get a whole lot more enlightened on the subject of light, with the upcoming Chemistry of Light Show, to be hosted at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Poles apart: Climate change at the ends of the earth
- Victoria University of Wellington
- “The last time carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were this high was 3 million years ago, and sea levels were 20 metres higher than today.”
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Labour not dead yet
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- The following commentary by Dr Jim Mcaloon from Victoria’s School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations was published in The Dominion Post.
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Learning to manage disability key to award-winning student’s success
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington Master’s student, who has won a Fulbright Graduate Scholarship to study in the United States, credits her success to the confidence she developed while studying with chronic pain.
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Improving education in remote east Indonesia
- Victoria University of Wellington
- They say it takes a whole village to raise a child. That’s exactly the scenario Victoria University of Wellington lecturer Ali Glasgow experienced when she spent one month researching the existing education provisions in remote parts of east Indonesia.
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Victoria University honours top-achieving alumni
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Six top-achieving New Zealanders were honoured in front of over 400 people last night at Victoria University of Wellington’s Distinguished Alumni Awards.
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Exploring common rituals behind everyday anxiety
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New research into the ritualised behaviour that follows when people are anxious or stressed has provided fresh insight into the characteristics of these actions, with the possibility of better understanding conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism.
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Come clean on live animal shipments
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Dr Anne Galloway from Victoria’s School of Design was published on Friday 19 June in The Dominion Post.
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Nepalese quake inspires winner of global business competition
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The supreme award winner of Victoria University of Wellington’s Global Enterprise Experience announced at Parliament last night was inspired by one team member’s first-hand experience of the devastating earthquake in Nepal earlier this year.
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Victoria to host Climathon over weekend
- Victoria University of Wellington
- This weekend, over 24 hours, more than 60 people will put their heads together to find ways to combat climate change.
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New findings show the impact of ancestry on health
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A ‘one size fits all’ approach to healthcare is being called into question by a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, who says the immune systems of Māori and Pasifika people are very different from those with European ancestry.
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New Zealand Superannuation: The facts and the fiction
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Dr Lisa Marriott, Associate Professor in Taxation at Victoria Business School, was published in The Dominion Post on 15 June 2015.
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Returning historical sound recordings to Pacific communities
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As part of an international project, a lecturer from Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) will return valuable collections of sound recordings to Pacific communities in The Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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Big award for slender design
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington Master of Design Innovation student, Oscar Pipson, has won a Student Notable Award in the 2015 Core77 Design Awards.
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Research to reduce the cost of traffic
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Drivers may be less frustrated by the apparent whims of traffic signals if a research project by Victoria University of Wellington associate professor, Dr Paul Teal, goes ahead.
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Marine biologist nets Senior Scientist award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Head of the School of Biological Sciences, Dr Simon Davy, has been awarded $10,000 as recipient of the 2015 Charles Fleming Senior Scientist Award.
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New stars rising
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Wellingtonians get the chance to watch some of tomorrow’s opera stars today in a magical double feature performed by students at Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music.
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Next stop Paris for scholarship winner
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Recent Victoria University graduate Dylan Chambers has been awarded the 2015 New Zealand France Friendship Fund Excellence Scholarship.
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Public talk to discuss what’s best for our bodies
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Leading psychology and biology experts from Victoria University of Wellington will be visiting Nelson as part of the University’s 2015 Public Lecture Series, presenting their perspectives on how modern science can inform health-related issues.
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Time for a change in funding research
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Victoria’s Vice-Provost (Research) Professor Kate McGrath was published by the Dominion Post and the Christchurch Press on Tuesday 2 June.
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Victoria’s Queens Birthday Honours recipients
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington congratulates staff, former staff, alumni and friends who have been recognised in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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