Victoria University / May 2015
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The Hub wins another award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria’s Kelburn Campus Hub and Library project has just won the ‘Emerging Chapter Award’ and received a Commendation in the ‘New Construction, Major Facility’ category in the CEFPI Regional Awards (CEFPI is the Council of Educational Facility Planners International).
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Combining academia and entrepreneurship
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Two lecturers from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Design are demonstrating that mixing academia with entrepreneurship can be a recipe for success—and job satisfaction.
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New Zealand’s climate “contributions”
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Professor Dave Frame—Director of the Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria—was published in The Dominion Post.
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Child poverty fight needs long-term plan
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Victoria Professor Jonathan Boston and Children’s Commissioner Dr Russel Wills, was published in The New Zealand Herald.
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Upcoming seminar to articulate vision for Pacific regionalism
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A prominent Pacific leader will lead discussion on the future of Pacific regionalism at a seminar to be held at Victoria University of Wellington this Friday.
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A tax, but not as we know it!
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary by Professor Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance at Victoria, was published in The Dominion Post on Tuesday 26 May 2015.
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Victoria University graduate to study with world’s best
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington graduate has been awarded over a quarter of a million dollars in scholarships to undertake a PhD at one of the best universities in the world.
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Victoria Chancellor knighted at Government House
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Chancellor has been knighted at an investiture ceremony at Government House.
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Lessons at Parliament
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Crisp shirts, polished shoes, ID card around the neck—14 Victoria University Political Science students don’t look like the average university student as they trade the lecture theatre for the Beehive.
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The 2015 Budget: How will the economy be affected?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary is provided by Professor Norman Gemmell, Chair in Public Finance at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Honorary doctorate—Dr Noel Barnard
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A world authority in the field of early Chinese history and archaeology, Dr Noel Barnard, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature at Victoria’s December graduation.
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Successful Wellington lawyer leaves lasting legacy
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A former Wellington coroner, who survived the rigours of war-torn Germany as a teenager, has left a generous bequest to Victoria University.
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Insights into the University’s art collection
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Adam Art Gallery treated visitors to seldom-seen gems and new acquisitions from Victoria University’s art collection at a recent exhibition.
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Letters of nineteenth century Māori women
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Thousands of letters written in the Māori language in the nineteenth century are held in public collections in New Zealand and overseas but relatively few of these are identified as being written by Māori women.
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A unique bequest
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A baroque violin made in 1760—when Mozart was only four years old—is among a collection of instruments gifted to Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) by the late musician, John David North.
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Real-world experience
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Wellington business is planning to implement a branding concept suggested by a Victoria marketing student for a class assignment.
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App to discover Wellington treasure
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A team of three former Victoria students is $10,000 richer after taking out the top prize in a competition to create a mobile app that will enhance students’ experience of the capital city.
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Memories of an attack
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Miriam Meyerhoff from Victoria’s School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies has heard some surprising and gripping stories while researching sociolinguistics in Vanuatu.
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Socially accountable
- Victoria University of Wellington
- As a child in Vanuatu, Pala Molisa was dragged along by his parents to protests about gender justice or conferences on Pacific development.
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Founding father or legal villain?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An 1877 ruling that the Treaty of Waitangi was a “simple nullity” signed by “primitive barbarians”, by our Chief Justice at the time, has had far-reaching consequences for subsequent Treaty claims.
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Designing close to home
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A house left abandoned by well-known Lyttelton artist Bill Hammond was the initial inspiration for a Victoria Architecture student’s award-winning work.
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Bootcamp builds entrepreneurs
- Victoria University of Wellington
- From aiding medical professionals to pinpoint difficult veins to making unique packaging for boutique food and beverage companies, an intensive 14-week summer programme helps Victoria students turn their ideas into viable businesses.
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Collaborating to treat cancer
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A novel way of treating cancer using immunotherapy has been discovered in a joint research venture between Victoria University and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, and is on track to being tested on cancer patients.
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Multilingual Masterchef
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Students get cooking and talking in an annual multilingual food competition organised by Victoria’s School of Languages and Cultures.
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A+ report card for Victoria
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University passed with flying colours in the most recent academic audit conducted by the Academic Quality Agency (AQA).
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New company to advance potential treatment for cancer and other diseases
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An immunotherapy technology for treating cancer and other diseases, jointly developed by Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, has been patented and will be the initial focus of a newly-formed company.
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Law students deconstructing climate change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A group of students from Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Law have set themselves the task of getting to the bottom of an agreement that could set a timetable for drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Thin Ice secures United States television deal
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Thin Ice, the award-winning documentary about global warming made in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington, will air on public television stations across the United States later this year to coincide with international debate around emissions reduction.
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Transforming power transmission worldwide
- Victoria University of Wellington
- An industry collaboration led by Victoria University of Wellington scientists has demonstrated for the first time that high temperature superconducting (HTS) power transformers can drastically reduce energy loss compared to conventional transformers.
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Building a more sustainable future for housing
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Research by a Victoria University of Wellington PhD student could lead to houses being designed in more sustainable ways in the future.
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Victoria celebrates Wellington’s 150th birthday
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University is joining the capital’s 150th birthday celebrations with a weekend of events at the end of July.
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Show goes on for new Victoria graduates
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington Chancellor Sir Neville Jordan applauds the resilience of new graduates and their family and friends who, despite flooding across the wider Wellington region causing widespread disruption, were still able to celebrate this week.
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Political leaders to speak at political marketing and management conference
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Representatives from national and regional government are among the speakers at an upcoming conference focused on political marketing and management, hosted by Victoria University of Wellington.
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First Master of GIS crosses the stage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s first Master of Geographic Information Science (GIS) was capped at one of the May graduation ceremonies.
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Public talk to explore the clever use of science
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Chemistry and physics experts will be visiting Masterton to talk about innovative scientific developments as part of the Victoria University of Wellington 2015 Public Lecture Series.
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Graduation Update
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Unfortunately today’s Graduation Parade has been cancelled due to bad weather. This afternoon’s Graduation ceremonies will all go ahead as planned.
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Research finds strategies to overcome ethnic discrimination in accounting industry
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Aspiring accountants from an ethnic minority have greater success finding a job if they adopt strategies that minimise their cultural differences, a Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduate has found.
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New graduate’s charitable journey
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University of Wellington student who graduated last night not only worked full-time throughout his degree, he also found time to set up a charity.
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Baby boomers open up about old age
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Future government policies will need to be flexible to accommodate the diverse needs of ageing baby boomers, a Victoria University of Wellington researcher has found.
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Show me the money: Government’s social housing reform risks being all talk without funding
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary is provided by Dr Richard Norman, senior lecturer in Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Management, and Bernard Teahan, a former chief executive of Trust House Ltd.
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The long road to success
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Murray Wilson was 20 when another inmate at Rimutaka Prison suggested he may be dyslexic.
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Graduation marks Victoria students’ achievements
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Nearly 2500 students will this week cross the stage to mark the culmination of their studies at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Victoria University mourns loss of Jack Body
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Jack Body, renowned composer and long-time Victoria University lecturer, will be greatly missed by those he taught and inspired throughout his career.
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Legacy of Futurism explored
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Futurism—an avant-garde artistic movement cited by New Zealand artist Len Lye as one of his major inspirations—will be examined in a day-long event at Victoria University of Wellington on 15 May.
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Ultimate opportunity to be Ultimate Champs
- Victoria University of Wellington
- In just over two months, Aaron Miller and Li Yeoh will switch their usual Wellington-coloured sports uniform for a black and white one, as they and their teammates vie for the title of World Ultimate Champions.
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Victoria University congratulates Jack Body on Icon Award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington congratulates Jack Body, composer and long-time Victoria lecturer, who has been awarded a prestigious Arts Foundation Icon Award.
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The play’s the thing—exploring Hamlet
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A short lecture series exploring Hamlet as Elizabethan audiences would have experienced it, coincides with the Globe Theatre’s upcoming world tour of Shakespeare’s most famous play.
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Is the Wellington City Council neglecting education?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The following commentary is provided by Sir Neville Jordan, KNZM DistFIPENZ, Chancellor, Victoria University of Wellington.
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First-year engineering project helps Samoan schools get better connected
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A first-year engineering project at Victoria University will see thousands of students in Samoa have faster, more reliable computer networks in the classroom.
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Better recordkeeping needed to preserve our digital heritage
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Poor recordkeeping of electronic documents and digital records may lead to a loss of accountability and collective history in public sector organisations, a Victoria University of Wellington PhD graduand warns.
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Victoria student wins top academic award
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A Victoria University student has had the honour of receiving the country’s top award for academic excellence at secondary school level at a ceremony in Parliament.
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Student dig uncovers hundreds of rare moa bones
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Māori Studies staff and students from Victoria University of Wellington have excavated hundreds of moa bones from a central North Island site where few moa remains were known to exist.
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Acclaimed international poet visits Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Irish poet Vona Groarke will give a public reading of her poems as part of a visit to Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML).
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Decorative images make life seem better
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A series of studies from Victoria University of Wellington have revealed that when people evaluate the quality of products, and their past behaviour, they tend to take a rosier view if they’ve been looking at decorative photographs.
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International honour for Victoria University Professor
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Victoria University of Wellington’s Professor Colin Wilson has received one of the highest international honours in science, with his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Wellington coastal plant could hold key to improving crop resistance
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A chance observation along Wellington’s south coast has led a Victoria University of Wellington PhD student to make a scientific breakthrough that could change the way other countries deal with increasingly saline soils devastating traditional crops.
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