USA News
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.
Whale Experts Flock (or Swim) to NZ
Saturday, 24 January 2009
In February nearly 50 whale researchers from around the world will gather in Auckland for the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium conference.
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.
Ecotourism Course Brings Canadians to Otago
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
A group of Canadian students from Brock University in Ontario have escaped the freezing Canadian winter to participate in a summer course in Ecotourism at the University of Otago.
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