Victoria University / February 2021
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Space: Robinson Research Institute’s next frontier
- 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
- 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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Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Turfing Latin part of a disturbing pattern
- 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
- 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
- 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’
- 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
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Details of the public programme will be posted soon.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kate Newby YES TOMORROW
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Kate Newby YES TOMORROW 20 February – 30 May 2021 Kate Newby has built her career on the principle of ‘travelling light’, responding to locations where she is invited to work by translating her casual observations of things and places into sculptural installations of locally sourced materials, and testing where she can be and what she should do through architectural interventions and site works.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kate Newby YES TOMORROW
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Kate Newby YES TOMORROW 20 February – 30 May 2021 Kate Newby has built her career on the principle of ‘travelling light’, responding to locations where she is invited to work by translating her casual observations of things and places into sculptural installations of locally sourced materials, and testing where she can be and what she should do through architectural interventions and site works.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Schools are failing to identify high-ability science students, research shows
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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