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Fifteen alumni were among the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington community members recognised for their achievements in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Following his interests has led alumnus Dr David Harland into a career at the heart of war, in order to negotiate peace.
It’s a meandering, fascinating story that involves Taranaki, India, Auckland, Dunedin, war, gold and a bunch of soldiers who spent a lot of time drunk or trying to desert.
As the country went into lockdown under alert level 4, medical anthropologist Dr Nayantara Sheoran Appleton was balancing caring for her toddler and working with her students, while frantically writing notes on her phone in the middle of the night,
COVID-19 has changed the way many of us learn and work. A group of students at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington are at the forefront of adapting to a changing world as they undertake internships online next trimester.
New Zealand’s historical treasures should be actively connected to the future as much as they provide a natural link with the past.
If you walk into a workshop to learn a trade in New Zealand, you’ll hear the teacher referring to the group as ‘guys’, and individual students as ‘mate’—reflecting the egalitarian values of the society we live in.
A contemporary of composer John Cage and artist Joseph Beuys in the 1960s and 70s Fluxus movement features in a suite of new exhibitions to mark the reopening of Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery Te
Dr Doug Van Belle from the University’s School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History spent his lockdown helping create a read-a-long novel, helping kids across the world keep up with their reading skills
Data about past changes in the Antarctic ice sheet can come from unexpected places—including coral fossils on tropical islands.
