Wintec will deliver a University of Waikato pre-degree programme in 2010 as the two tertiary organisations collaborate to adjust their overall education programme provision to ensure the needs of the region are met in the capped funding environment.

St Peter's School principal Steve Robb spent a day at Waikato University recently - but in the corridors of power rather than the lecture halls.

A major research collaboration between the University of Waikato and the University of Bremen in Germany is about to start with 13 students enrolled for doctorate degrees all focusing on aspects of marine and environmental change.

Internationally acclaimed population studies expert Ian Pool is this year's recipient of the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Professor Pool, who earlier this year retired from the University of Waikato, receives his medal

Dame Lynley Dodd and her iconic creation, Hairy Maclary, have been acknowledged with an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato.

Waikato University's Experience Waikato Day proved a hit with secondary school students.

Justin Hyde has all the components for a portable electricity generator that runs off a camping gas canister - now he just has to put them all together.

A management lecturer who brings real-world consulting into the classroom and an economist who draws on the slave trade in the Sudan to illustrate economic principles are the winners of this year's Waikato Management School Outstanding Teaching Awards.

A clever idea has won a University of Waikato final-year computer graphic design student an internship with e-design company Digital Stream.

Microbiologist Craig Cary likes going to extremes. He's spent 25 years researching the bacteria that live in deep ocean hot vents, and now he's turned his attention to microbes in one of the coldest and most remote places on the

AngelLink, a national angel investment network backing New Zealand high growth technology ventures, with an emphasis on life sciences, engineering and ICT, welcomes the inclusion of the Life Science Angels Network into its structure. The move is designed to create

Waikato University joined the mobile learning revolution on November 3, when it became the third New Zealand tertiary organisation to join iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com).

A prestigious chamber music contest returns to Waikato University in November.

English Renaissance drama is full of death and some of the most memorable deaths are prefaced by marvellous speeches. Waikato University PhD student Fiona Martin is researching dying words in early modern English drama and has won $5000 to put

A love of science fiction, gaming, interactive technologies and trading cards coupled with a flair for drawing spaceships gave University of Waikato computer graphic design student Hemi Ormsby the idea for his degree show project.

Electronic advertising stands are appearing in shopping malls and public places across the country, but to date they're limited to static posters that rotate or simple animations. That may be about to change, thanks to an ingenious idea by a

It's well known that small and medium-sized enterprises struggle to grow, but maybe they're content as they are. A new study out of the University of Waikato has found support for what's known as the 'contentment hypothesis', and it's won

Sparks danced and blazed as smoke steadily boiled over the top of the beaker. Seconds before Bill Henderson had added tinfoil to liquid bromine. Nasty stuff, bromine, he says. Earlier Brian Nicholson had produced a spectacular, oozing mass of foam

One of New Zealand's best known children's authors will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato.

A former All Black captain and an author and social history commentator were acknowledged at the University of Waikato's October graduation.