News

MELTING ICE & RISING SEAS TEAM

WINS PRIME MINISTER'S SCIENCE PRIZE
Bolton St in lockdown
COVID; Message from the Vice-Chancellor

Message from the Vice-Chancellor

Welcome to an issue of Victorious like no other, in a year like no other for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the world. Wherever in the world you are, I hope you are safe and well, and are managing to navigate the impacts of COVID-19. The University Council, senior leadership team, and I are proud of how our staff and students have risen to the challenge of those impacts and the adjustments needed to continue

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Alumni

An absolute year of it

The world may be full of difficulties, but author Elizabeth Knox CNZM is having a year of personal success.

Toby Morris self portrait
Alumni; COVID

Drawing the pandemic

Alumnus Toby Morris started out doing a weekly comic for the University’s student magazine, Salient.

Surfboard
COVID

Surfing the legal questions of COVID-19

When Associate Professor Dean Knight from the Faculty of Law convened a special Master’s seminar series on the legal implications of the New Zealand Government’s COVID-19 response, he was reminded of the benefits of being a capital city university.

Research

Robinson Research Institute aiming very, very high

Two major funding successes for the Robinson Research Institute will catapult the University into the vanguard of efforts to develop a decarbonised world.

Waka
News

Soaring into an historical Māori worldview with VR

The historical world of Ngāti Toa Rangatira warrior, poet, gardener, and carver Te Rangihaeata is brought to life in the new VR film Whakakitenga by Wiremu Grace, senior lecturer Dr Miriam Ross, and Associate Professor Paul Wolffram.

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Research

Improving the MRI experience

Ben Parkinson and Associate Professor Edgar Rodríguez have designed and built a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system as part of an international collaboration trying to make the system more accessible and comfortable.

NEWS

COVID–19

THE UNIVERSITY RESPONSE

As COVID-19 shut borders and closed down countries—and campuses—across the globe, the University’s researchers had to rapidly shift focus.

ALUMNI

THE POWER OF

TE AO MĀORI

Justice Sir Joe Williams (Ngāti Pūkenga, Te Arawa) was a first-year student in 1980 when Te Herenga Waka marae was first established in one of the old university villas on Kelburn Parade.

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The living pa
News

The Living Pā

A design team including several alumni is helping drive the Living Pā development, which will also be the University’s first ‘living building’.

Antarctic ice
News; Research

World-leading Antarctic research rewarded

A team of world-leading interdisciplinary scientists in the University’s Antarctic Research Centre have won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

An artist’s impression of the Fale Male
News

Fale Malae progress a global–civic partnership

The Fale Malae is set to be a focal point for Pasifika culture in the heart of Wellington and has been given a $10 million boost from central government.

Dijana Sneath
News; COVID

A golden opportunity

Dijana Sneath was one of the many people who found themselves facing unemployment during those weeks, but she seized on the “unexpected golden opportunity” to study at the University after receiving a Trimester 2 2020 Fees Scholarship.