The magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University.
Issue 14, April 2002

Directions

Space age development
In 2005, 48 years after the Soviet Union launched the first sputnik, New Zealand will have its own space satellite.

Direct to consumer advertising of prescription medicines
The contentious issue of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines is being examined by Associate Professor Janet Hoek and Professor Philip Gendall of the Department of Marketing.

Students benefit from scholarship gift
A $500,000 bequest from a South Auckland farming couple will be used to give Massey students a ‘hand up’.

Mäori PhDs graduate
An unprecedented six Mäori Doctors of Philosophy were capped at the Palmerston North graduation ceremonies in December. They included Professor Mason Durie, the University’s new assistant Vice-Chancellor – Mäori, who was awarded a rare DLitt. by examination. His wife, Professor Arohia Durie, received a PhD in Education.

United Nations handbook design
Graphic design students are continuing their winning ways at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by designing the second United Nations Handbook in succession.

Speech and Language Therapy degree
The College of Education is now offering a Bachelor of Speech and Language Therapy at the Albany campus. Until now, the only undergraduate course has been at Canterbury University.

Second e-centre to be built
A second e-centre business incubator is to be built next to the current e-centre at the Albany campus. The decision to build a second centre follows a phenomenal growth in tenant numbers. Microsoft has joined the University, the North Shore City council and the Tindall Foundation as a sponsor. Microsoft has already provided software worth $40,000 for the use of e-centre enterprises.

Amphetamine use up
Amphetamine use has doubled over the last three years, making stimulants the second-most popular illicit drugs in New Zealand after cannabis, according to a new study.

Fighting off the flu
Anthrax, smallpox or the flu: which has been the biggest killer in the last century? No contest: the flu by a clear margin. In 1918–19 a particularly virulent strain killed between 20 and 40 million people: more than died in World War I.

Chair in sport to be established
The establishment of a chair in sport has been approved by the Massey Council. Sport programmes have been run by Massey for more than a decade and the Palmerston North campus boasts an impressive cluster of sports facilities: the adidas Institute of Rugby, the athletics track and the High Performance Laboratory.

Funding for workplace safety study
The University and the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics have been granted funding of about $400,000 from the Health Research Council, ACC and OSH, for a two-year study looking at small business/self-employed safety in the residential construction and dairy farming sectors.