Blog de Chile
Kiwi secondary student wins major international science award
Monday, 13 October 2008
Pippa Grierson from the town of Katikati in the Bay of Plenty has won a major award at an international competition for young scientists in Europe.
NZ and EU student exchange on climate change
Friday, 10 October 2008
The New Zealand government and the European Commission are co-funding a university-based programme which will focus on developing better technology to monitor the parameters of climate change such as temperature, gas concentration and water quality.
New skydiving diploma another world first for NZ
Thursday, 9 October 2008
New Zealand Skydiving School has created a world first with the introduction of a Diploma in Advanced Skydiving, a qualification designed to train skydivers to take tandem passengers.
AUT Radio Telescope Offers New Research Opportunities
Wednesday, 8 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
Tuesday, 7 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.