2014 News

  • Putting a dollar value on conservation

    The economic and social benefits of greening urban areas are being explored in a multi-disciplinary project at Victoria University of Wellington.

  • Detecting harmful molecules in the environment

    Victoria University of Wellington researchers have developed a new technique that can detect environmental levels of oestrogen at the equivalent of detecting one pinch of salt in an olympic-sized swimming pool.

  • Fighting paediatric disease through research

    A Victoria University of Wellington researcher is one step closer to identifying candidate treatments to delay the onset and progression of a fatal paediatric disease for which no effective therapy currently exists.

  • Winner of 2014 Zonta Science Award

    Dr Laura Green, who is part of a Victoria University of Wellington team researching better ways of treating the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis, has won the 2014 Zonta Women in Science Award.

  • Climate change impacts tuatara population

    A new study involving researchers from Victoria University of Wellington shows climate change could ultimately result in the extinction of a population of tuatara.

  • Huge wasp numbers concern

    Entomologists are frantically trying to drum up increased funding to fight a huge wasp problem that has been made even worse by the recent arrival of another invader.