Opening the book on youth wellbeing
A Victoria University of Wellington project has launched a new graphic novel to help spread the word about how young New Zealanders struggling with self-harm can seek help.
2016 News
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New professor explores multiplicity of mathematics
The freezing of sea ice and exploding rocks in volcanoes may not sound like things a mathematician would worry about, but a newly-appointed Professor says mathematics has taken him on a 40-year academic journey of discovery.
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Warning that Antarctic ice sheet a “sleeping giant”
New research has led to a warning from a leading Antarctic expert that the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an ice sheet.
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New Zealand’s Alpine Fault biggest mover in the world
Researchers from Victoria University and GNS Science have shown that New Zealand’s Alpine Fault has moved more in the last 25 million years than any other known onland fault on Earth.
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Child witness research shows importance of mental age
Child witnesses with mild intellectual disabilities are as reliable as other children with the same mental age, research from Victoria University of Wellington has found.
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Italy and New Zealand in Antarctica
The Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University and the Embassy of Italy held a series of short presentations last week, to celebrate the long history of collaboration between Italy and New Zealand in Antarctica.
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Getting Rid of Schrödinger’s Immigrant
Dr Alan Gamlen from Victoria’s School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences discusses the validity of Immigrant Investor Programmes.
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Māori and Pasifika health in spotlight as 25-year genetic study concludes
The impact of around 5000 years of migration has significant implications for Māori and Pasifika health today, according to a research programme by a Victoria biologist.
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Building electronics atom by atom
Victoria University has unveiled a unique piece of equipment used to make everyday electronics by layering atoms on top of each other very precisely.
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Survival of the oldest
Scientists from Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science have for the first time determined precisely when more than 2000 species of ancient marine plankton became extinct.