International News
Zimbabwean Student Wins Computer Prize at Lincoln
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Lincoln University's Jade Prize for 2008 went to international student Makagona Mukoki from Zimbabwe, as the top computers student at the university.
International Business Students Compete in Auckland
Friday, 30 January 2009
Eleven university teams from around the world will pit their skills against each other to tackle real business problems for New Zealand companies this week as part of an international competition.
New Zealand Professor Improving Artificial Limbs
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Massey University professor Peter Xu, regarded as world-leader in mechanical limbs, has been granted $1.2m to take the technology behind wearable assisted devices to the next level, along with four PhD students.
Study “Supercomputing” in New Zealand
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
The University of Canterbury, the first institution in the Southern Hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, is to become the first tertiary institution in Australasia to teach high performance computing.
Fullbright Scholar to Study New Zealand’s Mountains
Friday, 16 January 2009
American geologist Marcia Bjornerud (Lawrence University) has been named a recipient of a 2009 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. Beginning in March, the $28,000 award will support four months of research in New Zealand at the University of Otago.While in New Zealand, her research will focus on rocks exposed along the Alpine Fault on the South Island, one of the world's most active plate boundaries.
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