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.
A series of mediation masterclasses by Professor Laurence Boulle of Bond University were so popular that discussions are already underway to invite the academic back to New Zealand.
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Dr Pushpa Wood will help New Zealanders make more sense of their dollars as the new director of the New Zealand Centre for Personal Financial Education.
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Massey University will lead the change in education needed to ensure New Zealand's teachers and schools are equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century, Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey says.
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Kayrn Kee, a policy analyst from the University's Office of the Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika), has graduated from the second intake of a new University of Melbourne qualification, a Master of Tertiary Education Management.
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A new collection of autobiographical writings by celebrated New Zealand author Robin Hyde, edited by Massey University English senior lecturer Dr Mary Paul, reveals a kindlier chapter in the history of this country’s mental health treatment.
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A warm classroom climate enhances the learning and social behaviour of primary school children.
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New Zealand urgently needs a national programme to help small and medium-sized businesses prepare for crises like the Christchurch earthquakes, say researchers from Massey University.
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Why we eat what we eat is a vastly complex subject.
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A Massey University professor will travel to Mongolia to teach blind people the skills they need to become more mobile.
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As an art lover and a bit of a greenie, the Reel Earth environmental film festival is a perfect fit for Victoria Jakobs.
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While fair trade coffee results in more money in the pockets of coffee growers in developing countries, it can also bring better returns for cafés here in New Zealand.
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From accounting to zoology, and everything in between – Massey University’s Albany campus Open Day on May 12 is a chance for prospective 2013 students to get their study and career dreams on track.
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Massey University congratulates fashion designer Collette Dinnigan on becoming an Australian Fashion Laureate.
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Meeting Nobel prize-winning scientists at a forum in Japan has given Massey University PhD researcher Paulina Hanson-Manful added zest for her own work which she hopes will save lives.
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A new style of television programme dedicated entirely to international news events launches this Sunday on TV3, in association with Massey University.
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Photography guidelines have been created to support Massey staff involved with arranging or taking photographs for University business, including the use of images.
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Massey University has been ranked among the best industrial design schools in the world in the international Red Dot Design Awards.
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Massey University is honoured to be gifted a new award for emerging artists.
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Associate Professor Andy Martin of the School of Sport and Exercise has been awarded an academic fellowship in applied learning.
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Writers struggling for recognition can now pursue their dreams of publication with the help of The Story Mint.
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Indigenous scholars Dr Tina Ngaroimata Fraser and husband Charles may be based in Canada, but their experiences resonate with Massey University Māori Studies students.
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Best-selling author on human and animal psychology Dr Jeffrey Masson give a talk at Massey University’s Albany campus on May 2.
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New Zealand robotics teams mentored by Massey University engineers have won the VEX Robotics World Championships in the United States for the fourth time running.
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A new high-level advisory board will provide strategic guidance to Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, potentially shaping the future of New Zealand’s security sector.
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A Massey University energy expert says proposed local government reforms would be a step backwards for sustainability.
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Four Massey University teachers, in fields as diverse as veterinary medicine, design, microbiology and communications, have won this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence.
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It is important for universities to engage with businesses if they are to produce relevant research, says Massey University’s newly appointed Professor in Innovation and Economics.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — Professor of war studies Glyn Harper’s latest book, his seventh for children, is already on the best-sellers list, just weeks after release.
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Key players in the Rena clean-up operation are gathering to recognise the work of the Massey University-led National Oiled Wildlife Response Team tonight.
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The Royal Society of New Zealand has named a new award for social sciences after Massey University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Mason Durie.
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Pacific parents need encouragement to acknowledge and listen to teenagers by negotiating which traditions best support their wellbeing, says a Samoan sociologist.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Experts in entrepreneurship and small to medium-sized businesses will gather in the capital in June for the 2012 International Council for Small Business World Conference.
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A Massey University sports scientist is seeking participants for a study to develop exercises for children tailored to different body types.
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Two popular College of Business lecturers truly shared the excitement of their students’ graduation ceremonies this week when they crossed the stage to receive their own doctoral degrees.
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Olympic rower Hamish Bond took time out from his hectic training schedule this week to attend his Massey University graduation ceremony.
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Journey Home, the CD recorded by Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra, has won the Tui for Best Jazz Album of the Year for 2012 in the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.
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North Shore Mäori scientist Dr Chris Rodley travelled a long way to pick up his PhD at the first of six Massey University graduation ceremonies in Takapuna on Tuesday.
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publishers has resulted in a new annual prize for Graduate Diploma in Journalism students: the Brian F.
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Forty Thai students have shared traditional New Year blessings with College of Education staff.
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The best College of Business students were recognised at the Albany campus’s Dean’s List presentation last night at the Bruce Mason Centre.
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A research project by Massey University's Dr Chris Anderson that uses plants to remove mercury and gold from soil, has led to a new major research centre in Indonesia that will help restore land degraded by mining.
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Two recent Massey graduates are amongst a select group of designers worldwide to show work at the Milan Design Show.
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While universities have remained impervious to many societal changes, the new openness of digital content strikes at the core of the business of knowledge exchange.
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A bumper crop of 32 doctoral candidates will cross the stage next week during Massey University’s Albany campus’ six graduation ceremonies, where more than 1000 students will be capped.
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Massey University education experts warn that the charter school experiment may cause more harm than good to the students it aims to help.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The popular Friday evening free concert series from Te Kōkī, New Zealand School of Music will begin again this week with a programme called ‘Bach & Father’ in the Ilott Theatre at Wellington Town Hall.
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College of Education Pro Vice-chancellor Professor James Chapman has announced his preliminary decision relating to the proposal for change in the college.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XKv1cN0-r78 Rats, the scourge of New Zealand's conservation estate, are being lured and trapped by their own species in a novel approach to pest eradication developed by a Massey University biology researcher.
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Chocolate eggs are part of an Easter tradition for many New Zealanders, but the Easter egg has a long history dating back at least 2,500 years, says Massey University historian Professor Susan Mumm.
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Calls for the default KiwiSaver system to be abolished are misguided, according to Dr Claire Matthews, Director of Financial Planning at Massey University’s Centre for Financial Services and Markets.
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An exhibition to celebrate 125 years of the Wellington School of Design, at Massey University, is in the finals of the 2012 New Zealand Museum Awards.
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Lockouts were once a last resort for employers but are becoming more common, indicating a trend towards more "employer activism", says Massey University historian Dr Kerry Taylor.
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The Ports of Auckland’s push for increased labour flexibility is “not taking place in isolation”, according to a Massey University employment relations specialist.
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An exhibition featuring some of New Zealand's most talented teens opens at Massey University this week.
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Artwork symbolising sound, created by a Massey education graduate-turned-artist Shannon Novak, is adorning the walls of the Albany campus library in the coming weeks.
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Young ballerinas who train excessively as they dream of a role in Swan Lake may be compromising their wellbeing and performance, say Massey University nutrition researchers who are launching a study on vitamin D and its role in dancers’ health.
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Research by Massey University’s Centre for Small and Medium Enterprise Research has found that some SMEs actually use regulation to their advantage.
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The appetising aroma of smoky cooked meat and vegetables lured Albany campus staff to a lunchtime umu last week.
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A grove of native trees planted on the Dairy Flat highway alongside Massey University’s Albany campus to honour Mataariki was blessed last week with the unveiling of a plaque.
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Gannets may be among the fastest and most agile seabird hunters around, but they risk dying of fatal neck and head injuries from accidental collisions in the water when diving for fish at breakneck speeds, a Massey biology researcher has found.
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Massey University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey announced today that Professor Hamish Spencer, from the University of Otago, is to be the next director of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution.
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Massey University is asking New Zealanders to stop “internalising a complicated situation” and start nominating as it launches a search to find the New Zealand quote of 2012.
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The first semester is now in full swing at Massey with students back on all three University campuses.
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A Massey University project to create a "living laboratory" to tackle sustainability issues received a boost from a world-renowned researcher this month.
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The Manawatu campus hosted the opening stage of the New Zealand Women's Cycle Tour on Wednesday night.
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Finance Minister Bill English was challenged about the Government's level of investment in tertiary education today at Finance 2012, an annual business event organised by Massey University and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
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Postgraduate students at Massey's School of Design and School of Fine Arts showcased their final projects at a joint exhibition in February.
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New Zealand must embrace science and integrate it fully into all aspects of society to be a truly innovative nation, Massey University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey told a conference in Wellington today (Wednesday).
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Massey University’s Amy Thomson is proof that there is more to politics than just John Key, David Shearer or Winston Peters.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey has announced the first stage of a $57 million project to relocate the College of Education from the Hokowhitu site to Turitea on the Manawatu campus and substantial construction and upgrading of buildings.
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Budding scientists from schools around the country are being invited to get the dirt on the genetic makeup of New Zealand soils in a Massey University project to introduce young people to the next generation of genome sequencing technology.
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Professor Glyn Harper, Centre for Defence Studies, has been appointed to the editorial board for the second edition of a five-volume Encyclopedia of World War I, published by ABC-CLIO, one of the largest publishers of reference works in the United States.
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Small, household-scale emergency rainwater tanks are being installed at a Wellington secondary school to encourage people to get prepared before a disaster.
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Immigration Policy in France and Europe was the topic of a public lecture given by the French Ambassador Francis Etienne today on the Manawatu campus.
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BAY OF PLENTY — Seven little blue penguins were released by the National Oiled Wildlife Response Team (NOWRT) this morning, marking the last major release of wildlife affected by the Rena oil spill.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Newly published research is highlighting some important factors that can enhance psychosocial recovery after the Christchurch earthquakes.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Massey’s Fertiliser and Lime Research Centre held its 25th annual workshop at Manawatu campus last week.
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The annual I Tri’d the Tri series began this week with Massey staff and students prominent in its management.
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Vice-chancellors from five prominent Indian universities were welcomed to the Manawatu campus yesterday.
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Two Albany scientists have been named Distinguished Professors for their outstanding work and international eminence in the fields of evolutionary genetics and theoretical physics.
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From bionic eyes to how blind people can use iPhones and GPS to cope with everyday living, Massey University is hosting a world-leading conference about improving mobility and independence for those with impaired vision.
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Men and women are making different choices about their retirement savings, which could lead to very different investment outcomes, according to Dr Claire Matthews, Director of Financial Planning at Massey University’s Centre for Banking Studies.
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Leading New Zealand band The Phoenix Foundation headlined a successful concert at Massey University Manawatu campus oval yesterday afternoon.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The 2012 International Council for Small Business World Conference, being co-hosted by Massey University in Wellington in June, will include a session on indigenous entrepreneurship for the first time.
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Some 100 staff, students and supporters attended a dawn blessing for the new student amenities centre and steel pou at the Albany campus on Wednesday.
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Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey met with United States Ambassador David Huebner n Thursday to discuss mutual areas of interest including scholarships the Ambassador’s informal student ambassador programme and Vox Robotic championships.
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Iranian-born Negar Partow, an expert on Middle East politics, religion, human rights and global security has joined Massey University to develop its new Masters of International Security programme.
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A healthy crop of silver beet, lettuces and radishes is the result of work by green-fingered staff and students who have created the first community garden at the Albany campus.
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Massey University has been given five-star ratings for its research, teaching, innovation, infrastructure and internationalisation.
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A new report on Chinese auto-parts subsidies, written by Massey University's Professor of International Business, Usha Haley, has been at the centre of a political storm in the United States.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A Massey University professor who uses mathematics to model the drift of ash from volcanic eruptions as well as solving industrial problems has just been awarded the highest Australasian accolade for maths in industry.
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A new four-year Māori immersion teaching degree will help to fill a critical shortage of expert Te Reo teachers and help halt the decline of the language, says Massey University Associate Professor Huia Tomlins Jahnke, who led the development of the course.
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Research shows that class size does matter; and that it matters most for socio-economically disadvantaged learners, the very groups that the Government says it is most concerned about, says Massey University Professor of Education John O'Neill.
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The first Massey students for semester one will be welcomed at the Manawatu campus Hokowhitu site on Tuesday.
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Massey University’s School of Economics and Finance will host the 2012 New Zealand Finance Colloquium at the Albany campus on February 9-10.
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Seven contemporary stainless steel pou (sculptured poles) were installed at the Albany campus this week.
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Senior communication lecturer Elizabeth Gray has received the annual Richard Buchanan College of Business Teaching Excellence Award.
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MANAWATU-WHANGANUI — Massey University’s Manawatu campus is currently home to 25 little blue penguins and two grey-faced petrels affected by the grounding of the container ship Rena.
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Massey University’s ecentre is encouraging entrepreneurs to tap into its expertise about potential markets for their ideas and save start-ups time, money and effort.
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