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Murapara Area School – Jo-Ann Rewi

2017 | Whatungarongaro te Tangata, Toitu te Whenua

School: Murapara Area School

Host: Bay of Plenty Regional Council

Region: Bay of Plenty

Ako ki te whakarongo whakarongo ki te ako
Great leaders are good listeners they learn to listen and listen to learn

Jo-Ann Rewi has taught for 17 years.  Init…

The NZUK Link Foundation Fellowships

The NZUK Link Foundation has established a Fellowship for Māori health researchers to visit and collaborate with universities or research institutes in the United Kingdom.

The Royal Society Te Apārangi manages the NZUK Link Foundation Fellowship to enable a Māori health researcher to spend 2–3 months at a university or research institute of their choice in the UK every year.

The Fellowships are intended to facilitate…

Emily Adlam

Emily's love of physics has taken her across the world to work alongside world renowned physicists.

For as long as I can remember I have been interested in science and its applications. While attending Auckland Diocesan School for Girls' I was fortunate enough to complete a Gold CREST project. This led to my selection to Realise the Dream in 2…

Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits – Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (2016)

For Māori, the faces that look out from Lindauer’s portraits are tribal leaders and family members. They are tohunga and politicians. They are ancestors and friends. Gottfried Lindauer met Māori tūpuna at the most basic level of human connection...

Publication detailsMason, N. and Z. Stanhope (Eds). Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2016.

About the bookFrom the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian immigrant artist Gottfrie…

Otari School - Sacha Fell

2021 | The World Around Us - Geography, Environment and Earth Science

School: Otari School

Region: Wellington

Host: Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science

Otari School’s participation in the Science Teaching Leadership Programme will enhance and compleme…

Gene editing technologies

2016: The revolution in gene editing technologies is making it easier to change genetic material with huge potential benefits in many sectors including healthcare, agriculture and conservation.

Understanding gene editingBrowse the topics below to learn more about gene editing:

What is a genome?

History of genetic engineering

New gene editing technologies

Current gene editing uses 

Animation on gene editing

View more resources to learn…

Excessive sugar consumption harmful to health and hard to avoid – review confirms

Excessive consumption of sugar is harmful for health and hard for consumers to avoid, a review by the Royal Society of New Zealand confirms.

It is hard to avoid because it is difficult to work out how much added sugar is in food and drink. The Royal Society of New Zealand is providing information to help clarify the role of sugar in health for New Zealanders, today publishing an evidence…

Why do inbred males fire blanks?

Dr Helen Taylor in her mobile lab

Posted: Thu, 3 Nov 2016

Two important outcomes of inbreeding are reduced fertility and the reduced health of offspring. It follows that inbreeding would be particularly detrimental to threatened species, of which New Zealand has many – especially bi…

Ella Orr Campbell

Botanist (1910-2003)

Ella Orr Campbell used to be taken for the matron when she became the first woman faculty member at Massey Agricultural College in 1945.1 No other women were appointed for years, and Campbell found the situation academically isolating as other facult…

Xiaole Zhan

Xiaole has just returned from America after representing New Zealand at the International Future Problem Solving Competition.

I’m the person perpetually at the end of roll calls with the name that nobody can pronounce. What’s in a name? My other home. My other tongue. Perhaps the beginnings of my creative problem-solving processes due to the scholastic demand for acrostic p…