Students unearth ways to improve campus composting habits
Fourth-year student Skye Earley is digging into whether students, faculty and staff know how, where or why they should compost on campus.
Enter The Earthshot Prize for a chance at £1,000,000
Do you have a research project that could make a positive impact on our planet?
Kiwi women’s long rugby history
Opinion: The outpouring of support from women for the Black Ferns in this Rugby World Cup has been a revelation to many but, as Jennifer Curtin writes, we should not be surprised.
Article on domestic violence policing of First Nations women wins criminology award
Criminology and law researcher Emma Buxton-Namisnyk’s study of domestic violence policing of First Nations women in Australia has been recognised with an Early Career Research Award.
UC graduate aspires to help solve Pacific problems
Piper Mortimer’s long-term career aspiration is to work on projects with lasting positive impacts for the Pacific region – and she will be one step closer following graduation this month.
Waikato wins at Australasian Formula SAE
A team of engineering students from the University of Waikato won first place overall for an internal combustion vehicle in the Formula SAE-A competition held in Australia last week.
Chatbots can help treat symptoms in people with depression
Clinician scientists from NTU Singapore have found that mental health chatbots are able to effectively engage people with depression in empathetic conversations and assist in the treatment of their symptoms.
Women experiencing intimate partner violence three times more likely to contract HIV
Women that experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers.
Preventing weight gain can help avoid total knee replacement: study
Preventing weight gain from early adulthood could reduce knee replacements in Australian adults by almost 30 per cent and save the health system $373 million per year, new research has found.
Can plants be genetically programmed to save themselves?
Adil Khan has not seen The Martian. But his work is helping to ensure that when human beings do reach Mars, they will have a better time of it than Matt Damon’s Mark Watney.
