In 2016 Te Rōpū Āwhina (Āwhina)—Victoria’s on campus whanau support for Māori and Pasifika students studying Science, Engineering, Architecture and Design—successfully completed the first year of their outreach programme.
Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Rebecca Priestley has won the 2016 Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize.
A Victoria University of Wellington researcher is part of an international team of volcanologists who have recently returned from their second expedition studying volcanoes in South America.
A vaccine for breast cancer is on the horizon, thanks to a new partnership between Victoria University of Wellington’s Ferrier Research Institute and the Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand (BCFNZ).
Recently published research from Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science has provided a unique insight into the hydrological effects of earthquakes in New Zealand.
Imagine you’re a local kiwifruit farmer, says Dr Judy Lawrence, and the consistently warmer weather means the harvest season has come early.
A Victoria University of Wellington visiting research associate has been involved in a project that identified earthquake shaking potential in Las Vegas to help developers build in safer and less expensive ways.
Research led by Victoria University of Wellington has demonstrated the ability of rhinoceros to modify the sex of their offspring to avoid the dominance of one gender and limit severe competition for breeding.
The following commentary by Associate Professor Wayne Linklater from Victoria University's School of Biological Sciences was originally published in the Dominion Post on 3 March.
Artificial forms of evolution are being used by a Victoria University of Wellington scientist to improve the ability of microbes to attack tumours.
