Victoria University

A Victoria University scientist has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to win a prestigious international prize for outstanding PhD research in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) field.

A Victoria University graduate designed the man-of-the-match trophies handed out to each games best player during the Rugby World Cup.

A sharp rise in expat graduates paying off their student loans is good news for Christchurch says the founder of the Heroic Educated Kiwi Expatriate (HEKE) campaign, Victoria University Prof Sir Paul Callaghan.

The HEKE campaign to encourage overseas New Zealanders to pay off their student loans has been given a boost by IRD figures for April showing a 43 per cent increase in student loan repayments over the last year.

NZ´s third official language has become more accessible with the launch of an online multimedia dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL).

Victoria University’s deaf studies research unit, which produced the first dictionary of NZSL in 1997, has created an online dictionary with about 4000 NZSL signs, accompanied by line drawings and video clips to show how to produce each sign and how the signs are used in context.

A Victoria University alumnus has made a substantial donation to establish a Visiting Scholar Programme at Victoria’s School of Economics and Finance.

Professor Stephen Turnovsky, a distinguished international scholar and researcher in economics, completed a Bachelor of Arts in economics at Victoria in 1962 and a Masters of Arts with First Class Honours in mathematics in 1963 before completing a PhD in economics at Harvard.

Press release by Victoria University

Learning in dance and drama has traditionally involved face-to-face tuition, but that may change following Victoria University research into the potential of online tuition.

Research by Victoria’s Faculty of Education shows students may be able to learn just as effectively using technology and the expertise of online dance and drama specialists.

Sir Paul Callaghan, 2010 New Zealander of the Year and Victoria University professor of physical sciences, says Kiwis living abroad should pay their student loans to help Christchurch.

Sir Callaghan’s Heroic Educated Kiwi Expatriates campaign (HEKE, which means ‘to reduce’ in Maori) is an appeal to more than 85,000 overseas debtors to help with the estimated $30 billion recovery bill.

Despite an increase in reports of discrimination towards Muslims, a researcher at Victoria University says Muslims are doing comparatively well in this country.

The research project, conducted by final year PhD student Jaimee Stuart from Victoria’s Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, compared the experience of Muslim young people in NZ and the UK.

Some of the world’s leading physicists and chemists are in Wellington next week for a conference to discuss exciting advances in their fields. 

The conference-AMN-5, which runs from 7th to 11th February, 2011-is hosted by the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a national Centre of Research Excellence, based at Victoria University. 

WASHINGTON, DC – A Kiwi bach powered by the sun is one of only 20 entries worldwide – and the first entry ever from the Southern hemisphere – to be selected for one of the most popular and highly anticipated design competitions. 

The prestigious United States Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 gives New Zealand an unprecedented opportunity to showcase its best on a world stage.