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Massey News Archive | 22 October, 2001

Alex Chu awarded highest honour from China
Professor Alex Chu has just received one of the highest awards granted to foreigners by the People’s Republic of China.

Press Releases

Media Advisory
Alert in US as anthrax fears grow
q What is anthrax?
q What are its effects?
q How is it transmitted?
Associate Professor Peter Davies, epidemiologist at Massey University’s EpiCentre,is available for comment.
Contact:Caleb Hulme-Moir. Public Affairs unit Ph:0064 6 350 5185

08/10/2001
Massey forges new training agreement with China
Chinese horticulture graduates will receive further state- sponsored training at Massey University following a visit of 23 members of China’s national human resource development agency.

08/10/2001
Campus promote mental health awareness
Massey University Albany campus’s 280 staff are being warned they could be given a chocolate, a compliment or even a video vouchers as random acts of kindness run wild on the campus this week to mark Mental Health Awareness week.

08/10/2001
Pacific peacemaking seminars
The Centre for Justice and Peace Development at Massey University Albany is hosting a series of public lectures entitled “Conflicts in Aotearoa and the South Pacific: resolution upon whose terms?”

5/10/2001
Education Minister wrong about literacy
Education Minister Trevor Mallard's claims that if Maori and Pacific Island students were taken out of the equation, New Zealand's international standing in reading would be much higher are not correct, says a Massey University literacy expert.

03/10/2001
US vets honour terrorist victims at Massey
Visiting representatives from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) attended a tree planting ceremony at Massey University today to honour those killed in the recent US terrorist attacks.

Campus News

Council Report
News and events from the October meeting of the University council

US vets honour terrorist victims
Visiting representatives from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) attended a tree planting ceremony at the University to honour those killed in the recent US terrorist attacks.

Education Amendment Bill passed
The Education Amendment Bill Number 2 slipped through Parliament without debate on 11 October. However the Vice-Chancellor, Professor James McWha, says the provisions for intervention by the Government in tertiary institutions could have been much worse but for protracted submissions and lobbying from universities.

Social work pay rises long overdue
Pay rises for Child, Youth and Family (CYF) social workers have been welcomed by young social workers-in- training at the Albany campus.

Massey to feature on Maggie’s show
The University’s Fruit Crops Unit will soon be known all over the country. On Saturday 13 October, a camera crew from Maggie’s Garden Show spent a day at the orchard filming for a segment about the Unit’s rent-a-tree scheme.

Minister wrong about literacy
Education Minister Trevor Mallard’s claims that if Maori and Pacific Island students were taken out of the equation, New Zealand’s international standing in reading would be much higher are not correct, says College of Education Professor James Chapman.

New training agreement with China
Chinese horticulture graduates will receive further state-sponsored training at Massey following a visit by 23 members of China’s national human resource development agency.

Features

Jazz man in the spotlight
He’s always been the cool dude lurking in the shadows with that big double bass, but this year, jazz programme leader Paul Dyne is grabbing a little of the spotlight for himself.

Marilyn Waring: the past 16 years
Marilyn Waring’s new book In the Lifetime of a Goat was launched during a tete-a-tete with Kim Hill at the Women’s Book Weekend recently.

Veterans urged to get active
You’re never too old to … be a world champion, bike from Auckland to Wellington, run a marathon, or to just enjoy being active.

Research and Development

Study examines vision loss in elderly
School of Health Sciences Lecturer and PhD candidate Gretchen Good is starting a research project she hopes will result in better services to older blind people.

Robotics competition success
First-year engineering students recently put their skills to the test in the annual robotics competition.

Classroom assessment key to learning
Kay Hawk and Jan Hill, of the Institute for Professional Development and Educational Research at the Albany campus, were among five New Zealanders invited to attend an International Symposium on Assessment For Learning in Chester, England last month.

Course examines ethical issues
Being the only non-American invited to participate in a course on the treatment of human research subjects was a privilege, says Assistant Vice-Chancellor of Equity and Ethics Professor Sylvia Rumball.

Events

Peacekeeping role urged
New Zealand is in a unique position to broker peace in the coming months, Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright told a seminar at the Albany campus last week.

Blues celebrates sporting prowess
Athletes of national and international ranking, from a wide variety of codes, were among those to receive University Blues awards this year.

Massey helps modernise Samoa
A group of 17 Samoan students from the University’s Graduate Diploma in Public Sector Management graduated in Apia this month.

Awards and Appointments

Aviation students get their wings
Bachelor and Certificate of Aviation students took brief respite from their intense study schedule at a recent ceremony where third-year students received their ‘wings’, and a couple of hefty scholarships were awarded.

Electronics students clean up awards
Farmers, guitar enthusiasts and petrol station owners are just some of the groups who stand to benefit from students’ award winning technology.

First PhD in Sport Management
Management department senior lecturer Andy Martin has just completed the first PhD in Sport Management at Massey.

New role providing principal support
The College of Education senior lecturer in education administration Eileen Piggot-Irvine has been appointed Director of the New Zealand Principal and Leadership Centre (NZPLC).