Category: Education

Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Marsden funds to help tackle challenges from climate change to teaching our history

University of Waikato researchers are leading a series of new projects from studying how our soils can help combat climate change, to designing how to better teach Māori history as part of Aotearoa’s new curriculum reset, all supported by the Royal Society’s Marsden Fund.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Why a domestic NZ COVID ‘passport’ raises hard questions about discrimination, inequality and coercion

With COVID-19 causing extraordinarily intrusive and expensive lockdowns, vaccine “passports” or certificates are increasingly seen as key to getting out of them. Decision-makers and gatekeepers – from border guards to maître d’s – will have a means of knowing who can safely engage with others.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: After the last ‘summer of terrible drugs’ it’s time to make NZ’s temporary drug checking law permanent

With the summer music festival season approaching (COVID willing), hopes are high that the current temporary recreational drug checking law will become permanent. If and when that happens, New Zealand will take another small step down the long drug reform road from criminalisation to harm prevention.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Wage restraint aims to list the lowest-earning public servants, but it won’t fix stubborn gender and ethnic pay gaps

It has been a confusing couple of weeks for public sector employees. They started with the government announcing what looked like a three-year pay freeze for public servants but ended up with a “lift/adjust/hold” approach to public sector pay.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Four leading academics awarded the title of Emeritus Professor

The University of Waikato has proudly awarded four academics, the Hon. Margaret Wilon, Peter Kamp, Ernie Kalnins and Anne McKim, with the title of Emeritus Professor for their exemplary work in their respective fields, as well as their outstanding contributions to the community.

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Headline: Learning to discriminate: Can machines learn to identify pest species from photos?

Can machines learn to identify pest species from photos?
Machine learning has many applications in the real world, from medical diagnoses to detection of contaminants in soil samples. And now, researchers including the University of Waikato’s Professor Eibe Frank are investigating whether it can be used to protect New Zealand’s biosecurity. He will discuss this at hit public lecture on 16 July at 5.45pm.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Silver Fern steps higher

Once a ball girl for netball’s Silver Ferns, Sam Sinclair is now a key member of the team’s starting seven, as well as vice-captaining the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. The 23-year-old is now off to Nepal to climb to Ama Dablam Base Camp and fundraise for the Himalayan Trust Literacy Programme.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: The First AECOM David A. Burns Award Announced

In 2018, AECOM (a premier New Zealand and international company that designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets, including on the University of Waikato campus) established an award to commemorate the contributions made by the late David Andrew Burns and to encourage graduate students into a career in engineering geology.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Poster students for Psychology research

From the effect of social media on Pacific cultural identity to the reason the moon looks bigger on the horizon than in the sky, last week’s Psychology poster session showcased the wide range of questions that Waikato’s honours students have worked hard to answer this year.

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Source: University of Waikato – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Innovate or perish: Business strategies to navigate an uncertain world

New Zealand businesses are constantly looking over their shoulder to assess the threat from disruptive technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and blockchain. While uncertainty is a fact of life, some companies are more adept than others at responding to these challenges, says Professor Tim Coltman, Dean of the University of Waikato’s Management School.

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