Photography Graduates Shine
Graduates of Massey’s photography courses continued a winning tradition at the 2004 New Zealand Professional Photography Awards and the Qantas Media Awards.

News Releases

17/06/2004
Funding the food of the future
Individualised foods, manufactured at point of sale, are the target of a new $13 million research programme.

Cultural Intelligence breaks new ground
Cultural Intelligence. If you’ve got it you have the key to making a successful business deal in any culture. But without it, trips to foreign places and foreign markets could be disastrous or at least disappointing.

Sensational lamps - made @ Massey
A team of second-year Product Development students has created radical new saleable lamps, with the support of a North Shore e-centre company.

14/06/2004
Why people gamble
Dr Dave Clarke from the School of Psychology at Albany is contributing to a multidisciplinary research team looking at gambling in New Zealand.

Univerity News

Council Report

Festival of Science
Staff from across the College of Sciences are giving their time and energy to take part in the local science centre’s Festival of Science.

Massey joins international delegation
Assistant Vice-Chancellor – Research Professor Nigel Long was among a New Zealand delegation just returned from the United States where they attended the world’s biggest annual biotech event, BIO 2004.

Free bikes for long-term loan
The Green Bike Trust provides free bicycles for students and staff.

Opening the book on history
Master of Veterinary Science student Sithar Dorjee (pictured) had the honour of opening the big book on the 125th jubilee celebrations at the Palmerston North City Library recently.

Brecker wows music students
Massey students had a rare chance to learn from star saxophonist and composer Michael Brecker in a masterclass recently.

Hill shares wisdom with students
The Communication and Journalism department is tapping the capital city’s rich vein of media and communication expertise to bring industry leaders into the classroom.

Features

Domestic adventures in early children’s fiction
Imagine the days when the children’s book reigned, as toy and tool and a colourful conduit of an era’s ideology.

The psychology of giving aid
The time has come for psychology to take its place in the mix of knowledge and resources that create foreign aid strategies. Associate Professor Stuart Carr travelled to Paris to put the case for psychology to top level meetings with UNESCO and the OECD.

75 years of mud, sweat and tears
Past and present players of the Massey University Rugby Football Club - the country’s largest - reunited over Queen’s Birthday weekend for their 75th jubilee celebrations. Includes video.

Thesis a gift of knowledge
Agnes McFarland’s Masters thesis, written in Te Reo Maori, holds great significance for both the people it was written for, and for its unique and inspirational methodology.

Research and Development

Major funding for the Riddet Centre
Individualised foods, manufactured at point of sale, are the target of a new $13 million research programme.

Why people gamble
Dr Dave Clarke from the School of Psychology at Albany is contributing to a multidisciplinary research team looking at gambling in New Zealand.

Cultural Intelligence breaks new ground
Cultural Intelligence. If you’ve got it you have the key to making a successful business deal in any culture. But without it, trips to foreign places and foreign markets could be disastrous or at least disappointing.

New challenges for software
When Terry Stewart first developed CHALLENGE™ software he didn’t imagine that it would evolve into a generic e–learning tool with multiple potential applications in education and industry.

HRC funds allergy research
Five research programmes on health issues including cancer, housing and endotoxin exposure feature in funding announced in June by the Health Research Council.

Why are boys lagging behind girls at school?
The under achievement of boys and the reasons why are the topics of a conference for educators, health professionals and parents, to be held in July on the Albany campus

Milk supplement aids athletes
A study into the effects of colostrum supplements has turned the media spotlight on researcher Christine Crooks.

Wi-fry on Massey's Wellington campus
Wellington IT students have been attracting curious glances recently while wandering the campus with Chinese mesh scoops held aloft.

Noise annoys autistic children
Early results of a ground-breaking study of noise in early education has found children with autistic disorders are among the most severely affected of any group of children in early education. Includes video.

Children offered Music Therapy
The Conservatorium of Music and the Wellington Branch of Autism New Zealand will trial a programme of music experiences for children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Students develop lighting solutions
A team of second-year Product Development students recently undertook a real-life project with e-Centre company Cleanflowsystems to develop a lighting solution.

Awards and Appointments

Marketing professors win award
An article examining the use of survey evidence in a recent trademark legal battle has won Professor Janet Hoek and Professor Phil Gendall a prestigious Emerald Award.

Study exchanges broaden internationalisation
Four Humanities and Social Science students will experience campus life in another country when they leave for a student exchange in August.

Photography Graduates Shine
Graduates of Massey’s photography courses continued a winning tradition at the 2004 New Zealand Professional Photography Awards and the Qantas Media Awards.

Bob Jones and the Philosophy scholarships
Sir Robert Jones thoroughly approves of good old-fashioned subjects like philosophy, so much that he has sponsored two scholarships for students of the discipline.

Introducing the Web Content Manager
The University’s publications policy takes a step forward with the appointment of Matt Poff as Web Content Manager.

Biomechanics travel award launched
A travel grant for researchers and postgraduate students who investigate how the body works - the field of biomechanics has just been launched.

Honours for alumni
New Zealand’s longest serving public sector chief executive and the former head of Radio New Zealand were among alumni acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.