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Oceanography researcher recognised for making waves around the world
With a sea captain for a grandfather and childhood summers spent around the sea, it’s…
16 March 2023

The challenge and opportunity of a generation
The destruction of Cyclone Gabrielle is another reminder that ‘business as usual’ and incremental change…
14 March 2023

Scholarship enables inaugural recipient to contribute to the redevelopment of Tauranga City
University of Waikato first-year Bachelor of Engineering student Nathan Bailey is the inaugural recipient of…
13 March 2023

Saving lives: Psychology programmes celebrate 50 years
More than 85 people gathered to celebrate the University of Waikato’s School of Psychology on…
8 March 2023

Embracing equity in Waikato on International Women’s Day - and every day
As a University that is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, International Women’s Day, held…
8 March 2023

Three golds for cyclist Ally Wollaston
University of Waikato law student and Hillary Scholar Ally Wollaston has returned to New Zealand…
7 March 2023

Waikato alumnus awarded prestigious University Medal.
The University of Waikato has awarded its prestigious University of Waikato Medal to alumnus Rob…
7 March 2023

Responding to the Nursing workforce crisis: Doubling the intake of nursing students at Waikato for 2023
The University of Waikato has welcomed a record 211 new students into its Registered Nursing…
6 March 2023
Opinion

14 March 2023
Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?
Are the easy profits of the surveillance capitalists a thing of the past? “Surveillance Capitalism”, as defined by the Harvard…

28 February 2023
ChatGPT and cheating: 5 ways to change how students are graded
Universities and schools have entered a new phase in how they need to address academic integrity as our society navigates…

24 February 2023
Ukraine a year on: the invasion changed NZ foreign policy – as the war drags on, cracks will begin to show
One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border – and over the UN Charter and…