Massey University
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Massey University is one of New Zealand's leading educational institutions with three campuses in the North Island and a distance learning programme that delivers university qualifications to all parts of the country.
Secondary school pupils from around New Zealand spent two days immersed in chemistry at Massey University this week as part of the National Secondary School Chemistry Quiz programme.
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Gary Hermansson has re-joined Massey University part-time as Professor of Sport Psychology based in the School of Sport and Exercise.
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Massey University’s College of Education has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia’s Ahmad Dahlan University (ADU).
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WELLINGTON CITY — Massey University is initiating a new era of partnership with local government with the launch of its Living Lab.
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Massey University’s professor in leadership has a simple message for students attending next week’s New Zealand Business Week in Palmerston North: follow your passion.
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Massey librarian Heather Lamond says modernising the image of libraries will be one of her goals when she becomes president of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA).
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Watch video Animals recovering from surgery or other ailments can now hit the gym at Massey University’s new Canine Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Service.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Blue, green and gold confetti rained down on over 200 guests at Massey’s new creative arts building, Te Ara Hihiko, in Wellington today.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Massey University creative arts staff and students have produced a unique time capsule for their new building in Wellington.
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Massey University's School of Aviation will award its latest cohort of aviation students with their Wings brevet next week, marking a quarter of a century of producing aviators with a difference.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The recipe: three students, one wooden push-puppet and a very tight deadline.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Massey University’s new creative arts building Te Ara Hihiko will be officially opened in Wellington tomorrow by Sir Richard Taylor, New Zealander of the Year and award-winning Design and Effects Supervisor for Weta Workshop.
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The first combined Kura Māori language art exhibition will be held at Massey University tomorrow.
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HASTINGS — There is no one way to be a leader, people lead in different ways, says a Massey University Professor who will give a lecture to mark the start of Leadership Week.
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A ground-breaking study on the effects of vitamin D on muscle strength and bone health in teenage female dancers and athletes is currently underway at Massey University’s Albany campus - and they’re looking for more participants.
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A Massey University chartered professional engineer has overseen a major publication outlining the innovations in information and communications technology being utilised at the London Olympics.
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Massey academics won three best paper awards at the ICSB World Conference in Wellington last week.
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A Massey University researcher says the government’s desire to ensure parents have sound, educationally relevant information about their children’s achievement and progress is commendable but the Prime Minister seriously underestimates the challenge this presents.
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Takapuna Grammar student Myeonggyun Lee has already experienced his first taste of international business success as part of the winning New Zealand team in the Global Enterprise Challenge.
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The obesity epidemic isn’t just about food – lack of exercise is also a key factor.
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Eight Massey University postgraduate students have become the lucky recipients of grants made by the Graduate Women Manawatu (GWM) Charitable Trust.
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Kiwi employees and their bosses will shed unprecedented light on the world of employment and the workplace in the most significant survey of its type conducted in New Zealand to date.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Massey University has released a video showcasing the design and construction of its new creative arts building, Te Ara Hihiko, in Wellington.
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A new partnership between Massey University and Venture Taranaki was signed in New Plymouth on Wednesday.
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Despite an intense and exhausting 54 hours, the winners of Auckland’s sold-out Startup Weekend are all smiles.
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HAMILTON — More than 100 alumni and stakeholders attended an after five function in Hamilton last night as part of Massey University's National Field Days programme.
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The Massey University Medal has been jointly awarded to Professor Martin Verstegen and Mrs Mariet Verstegen-Spiertz of the Netherlands in recognition of their work in support of agriculture and food science and longstanding connections with Massey.
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While a gold medal is the immediate priority for Olympians Hamish Bond and Eric Murray when they head to London next month, both are also thinking about life after sport.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Massey University’s Innovation Campus will live up to its name this weekend when entrepreneurs, designers and developers take part in a 54-hour competition to transform an idea into a new business.
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A Massey University economist is predicting chaos if this weekend's election result leads to Greece leaving the euro.
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Linking science with farmers is the goal of Massey’s new Professor of Dairy Production Systems, Danny Donaghy.
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The New Zealand Centre for Personal Finance Education has joined the OECD’s International Network on Financial Education.
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The stage is set for a new Cold War this time in the Pacific and, while an arms-race would be dangerous, a development aid-race would not be without hazards, writes Josh Wineera.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Enid Hills, the first woman to graduate with a Massey University qualification, died in Palmerston North yesterday aged 99.
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Making mathematics more interactive is the focus of a new research project by the Centre of Excellence for Research in Mathematics Education.
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TARANAKI — Lessons from the Christchurch rebuild will be included in an economic model to aid the recovery from any future volcanic eruption in Taranaki.
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High school students from across New Zealand will create inspired solutions for a worldwide business issue at Enterprise in Action 2012, hosted by Massey University at its Albany campus this weekend.
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Māori academic Professor Sir Mason Durie will deliver one of his last public lectures at the TSB Showplace in New Plymouth tomorrow to celebrate Massey University's Te Mata o Te Tau lecture series.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Scholars will converge in Wellington this week to discuss the latest editing techniques making 400 year-old literary texts accessible in the 21st Century.
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Taranaki businesses will be able to tap into world-class expertise to help them grow, with the signing of an innovative agreement between Venture Taranaki and Massey University tomorrow.
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A public management expert from Massey University says more councillors and community boards are needed to help people re-engage with local government.
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He was once a troubled, drug-addicted youth; now his research is being used to help employers select the right people for the job and improve the prospects of Maori.
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Cooking with twigs over a small solar-powered stove may seem a far cry from the daily life of the average engineering student in New Zealand, but the invention could be among several used to improve the livelihood of rural poor living in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.
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Massey researchers will investigate health issues ranging from whether mobile phones raise the risk of brain cancer in children to the possibility that unpasteurised milk provides protection from asthma and allergies, after receiving $3.8 million in government funding.
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Massey researchers will investigate if children and adolescents who use mobile phones are at a greater risk of brain cancer.
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The establishment of an interim sciences facility alongside the Albany campus Student Amenities Centre promises to not only make learning in laboratories more flexible, but also to enable space to be freed up for research purposes across the campus as the College of Sciences grows.
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The Massey University/GNS Science Joint Centre for Disaster Research is celebrating four new PhDs.
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Dr Gourab Sen Gupta, a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, has been chosen to serve as a distinguished lecturer for the Instrumentation and Measurement Society, part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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First year Māori visual arts students are taking their first step to becoming artists with an exhibition at Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, School of Māori Studies. The exhibition opened last Friday and features paintings by nine first year students, as well as works by second, third and fourth year students.
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Massey staff, graduates and five leading New Zealanders conferred with honorary doctorates were recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours.
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Around 300 Samoan secondary school students celebrated their nation's 50-year anniversary of independence with festivities at Massey University's Albany campus last Friday.
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Experts in entrepreneurship and small to medium-sized businesses will gather in Wellington next week for the 2012 International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference.
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Top students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences were recognised at the inaugural Outstanding Achiever Award ceremony on Friday.
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Massey University is to establish a College of Health that focuses on prevention rather than cure – an approach Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey says is essential if New Zealand is to tackle the looming health crisis.
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He might be retired from competition, but former Olympic swimmer Moss Burmester is still very much focused on the Olympics and everything it stands for.
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After working on his thesis for more than seven years, Massey marketing lecturer Dr Ravi Balasubramanian finally crossed the stage to receive his doctoral degree at his graduation ceremony in Wellington last week.
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“A dream of a lifetime” is how 20 year-old design student Sam McCafferty describes winning an internship at the Honda Research and Development department in Rome.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Spanish language films and be a window into Latin American countries and cultures.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The opportunity for research-led planning to help Auckland become, in Mayor Len Brown’s words, “the world’s most liveable city” has gained momentum with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Massey University and Auckland Council.
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Research by the late Venessa Green suggests that people recovering from a cardiac event may benefit more from group exercise than individual exercise programmes.
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College of Education maths expert Margaret Walshaw is in hot demand speaking at two Canadian and one US conferences in May and June.
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New "super-charged" video linked teaching rooms at Massey University will allow students across campuses to join together as a single class.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington’s brightest business students were honoured for their achievements at the Academic Excellence Awards last night.
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Fifteen agriculture students were awarded scholarships from the Sydney Campbell Memorial Trust at an event at Massey’s Manawatu campus last week.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Family and friends of Massey’s Wellington graduates will be able to watch this Thursday’s graduation ceremonies – and guest speaker Tom Scott – live online for the first time.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Black & white stylised time lapse of building construction.
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New therapy groups – one to help expectant and new mothers with emotional wellbeing, and another on healthy eating – are available from June at Massey University’s Centre for Psychology at Albany.
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The quest to find New Zealand’s most innovative, creative and tasty food products is underway.
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World-class researchers from a range of environmental and agricultural sciences within Massey University will work together to provide novel solutions to current river catchment and freshwater problems.
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Graduate Sam White scooped six of the 15 School of Accountancy awards at a ceremony recognising the top students in the College of Business.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The best urban design ideas in a competition for rebuilding quake-affected Christchurch will be judged by David Sheppard, President Elect of the Institute of Architects, and design experts David Lovegrove and Jacky Bowring.
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An interest in finding out more about his family history five years ago has led to a Massey staff member producing a 600-page book.
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A Massey University master’s student hopes to find out if obese but active people are better off than those who are slim but inactive.
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Distance learners can feel more confident interacting online than they would in the classroom, new research shows.
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From their home in Turkey, two proud parents watched live as their daughter crossed the stage at a Palmerston North graduation ceremony.
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When people at New Zealand’s premier design conference last weekend emerged from a talk by Australian paper engineer Benja Harney, they were handed a postcard featuring the paper planes they had just made.
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One of the most keenly anticipated concerts of the year will take place this Wednesday evening as five outstanding students perform in the NZSM Concerto Competition Final.
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AUCKLAND CITY — New Zealand Ice Cream Award 2012 judges doused their taste buds with 286 flavours of ice cream, gelato and sorbet this week.
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Prime Minister John Key visited Massey University’s School of Aviation today, and met with staff and students as he toured the Milson Flight Systems Centre.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The proliferation of Asian language signs in Auckland creates a sense of belonging for new migrants, and a space for others to experience and learn about migrant cultures that contribute to the city’s cosmopolitan character, according to a Massey University study.
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Massey University is taking a novel approach in its new television advertisement, to be screened for the first time on Sunday.
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Maori graduates have celebrated with whanau and friends at a ceremony to honour their achievements.
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A delegation from the Parliament of Victoria, Australia visited the Manawatu campus this week to learn how Massey helps prepare young people for a career in agriculture.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — An innovative company that grew from a garage to play a key role in getting New Zealand communities connected online has won an award for its contribution to the Manawatü region.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Professor Rom Harre has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Massey University at a graduation ceremony in Palmerston North.
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Professor Emeritus Ivan Snook has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Massey University at a graduation ceremony today.
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The Government's announcement that it will make a postgraduate qualification the minimum for all new teachers is exactly the direction Massey University is taking with its teacher education programmes, the University's College of Education Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor James Chapman says.
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First time mothers’ romanticised expectations of motherhood can leave them feeling unprepared for the reality, a Massey University researcher says.
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Massey University's annual Writers Read series starts in Wellington next week with a reading by playwright, screenwriter and fiction author Duncan Sarkies.
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The first graduating class of Massey's Bachelor of Veterinary Technology programme crossed the stage at Palmerston North's Regent on Broadway today.
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Six top Pasifika students were awarded scholarships at Massey University in Wellington last week.
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She may be taking time out to graduate with a Massey University PhD today, but Dr Kirsty Hammond's research into reducing methane emissions from livestock is continuing overseas.
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When Dr David Smith crossed the stage to receive his doctoral degree yesterday afternoon, it was the fifth time he had been capped at a Massey University graduation ceremony.
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New Zealand's major airports have experienced impressive growth in both revenue and profits since they were commercialised from the late 1980s, says Dr David Lyon who was conferred with his PhD during a Massey University graduation ceremony this afternoon.
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Massey University and professional services company KPMG have formed a research partnership to share knowledge and foster innovation.
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Recent relocation to the heart of the library has given the Albany campus Centre for Teaching and Learning greater visibility, making it more accessible to students, says manager Ken Cage.
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More than 1300 students will graduate at Palmerston North capping ceremonies this week.
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Massey University will spend $75 million upgrading and expanding New Zealand's only veterinary school, increasing its capacity to train vets by 180 students.
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