Sri Lankan News
AUT Radio Telescope Offers New Research Opportunities
Thursday, 9 October 2008
The new facility, which is linked to New Zealand's most powerful super computers, will enable AUT University's Institute of Radiophysics and Space Research to receive and process enormous amounts of data from deep space for cutting-edge research in astrophysics and earth science.
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.
WOW - NZ Polytechnics & Institutes of Technology in the Arts Spotlight
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
One of New Zealand's most popular annual events has a lot of help behind the scenes from hard-working students.
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.