Industry experience for Unitec science students


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 05 Aug 2020   Posted by ePress

Co-authored by Dr Diane Fraser Since 2011, Unitec’s School of Environmental and Animal Sciences (EAS) has worked to partner students at Level 7 with external organisations, as part of their self-directed study course for their Bachelor of Applied Science degree. Students have had the opportunity...

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Architecture lecturer Min Hall develops a prefab building product using straw


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 02 Jun 2020   Posted by ePress

Min Hall, a Lecturer at Unitec’s School of Architecture, was awarded Early Career Researcher Fund (ECRF) grants for both 2019 and 2020. These awards have enabled her to focus on Project Pātūtū, in which she is the lead researcher investigating the development and use of prefabricated timber-framed,...

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Dissemination of research in the time of Covid-19


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 20 May 2020   Posted by ePress

In the first few months of this year, the spread of Covid-19 saw rapid changes to the teaching and learning environment that staff at tertiary institutes had to lead and adapt quickly to, for the welfare of students and their education. As it is still unclear when international travel might be possible...

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Unitec researchers publish paper on bioremediation for asbestos


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 06 Apr 2020   Posted by ePress

Following the launch of the Environmental Solutions Research Centre (ESRC) in September 2019 (covered in articles by Scoop and Voxy), the Director, Associate Professor Terri-Ann Berry, has co-authored a paper, Challenging Global Waste Management – Bioremediation to Detoxify Asbestos, with fellow Unitec...

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New Kaupapa Māori research centre at Unitec


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 16 Apr 2019   Posted by ePress

Artworks depicting tui in Unitec’s pā harakeke painted by artist and Maia Māori Centre lecturer Hohepa Renata, grace the walls of the newly-opened Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre. The name was gifted to Research Centre head Jenny Lee-Morgan and her team by Kaumatua Wairangi Dr Haare...

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