KiwiNet funding for new rat lures
Victoria University of Wellington researcher Dr Michael Jackson has received $25,000 in funding from the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme to help commercialise new lures for rat control.
Victoria University of Wellington researcher Dr Michael Jackson has received $25,000 in funding from the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme to help commercialise new lures for rat control.
A research team led by Professor David Ackerley from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Biological Sciences has discovered a new method of measuring the amino acid glutamine, with implications for medicine, research, and even wine-making.
A group of Victoria University of Wellington students had the opportunity to learn more about a career in biotechnology at a recent visit from Hon David Parker, Minister for Economic Development, Environment, and Trade and Export Growth.
A team of researchers led by Professor Thomas Nann from Victoria University of Wellington has created a new electrolyte that could be the key to making safer and more environmentally friendly batteries.
A ‘waka laboratory’ to sample gas emissions from some of the world’s most inaccessible volcanoes is among 22 Victoria University of Wellington-led projects to receive more than $14.5 million from the Government’s Marsden Fund for innovative thinking by top researchers.
Four Victoria University of Wellington staff have been made fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Victoria University of Wellington researchers have received over $20,000 in funding from Research for Life for medical research and presentations at international conferences.
New Zealand has amazing birdlife: nocturnal parrots, birds that can't fly, unique and beguiling birdsong, and varieties that turn up after 50 years of being thought extinct.
Lettie Roach, from Victoria University of Wellington, was yesterday announced as the joint recipient of the Hatherton Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand for her contribution to a paper on a new generation of sea ice models.
New Zealand’s most prestigious research honour, the Rutherford Medal, has been awarded for the second year in a row to an academic from Victoria University of Wellington.