International News
NZ Engineering Students Win International Earthquake Design Prizes
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
A team of postgraduate engineering students from the University of Auckland has returned victorious from an international earthquake design competition in Taiwan, where student teams competed to construct earthquake-resistant models of buildings.
Ultimate NZ Tour Contest Wraps Up
Saturday, 4 October 2008
After a ton of creative videos, a few thousand enthusiastic voters, and an impressed judging panel, there is now a winner for the Ultimate NZ Tour.
PhD student from Germany Warns of Eco-tourism’s Effect on Penguins
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Research that shows unregulated tourism is threatening the survival of a yellow-eyed penguin colony on the Otago Peninsula has won a PhD student from the University of Otago a major prize in the MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards.
NZ Pilot Training Popular with Indian Students
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Soaring demand for pilots worldwide means business is taking wing at an Otago, New Zealand flight school.
Studying Super-eruptions and Cancer-fighting Vegetables
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
The New Zealand government has allocated a $54 million pool of funding to a variety of scientific projects around the country as they announced this year's Marsden Fund Awards.
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