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Unitec staff and students present at recent SRARNZ conference

Authors: Dr Marleen Baling and Unitec Frogs, geckos and skinks might sound like the ingredients for a witch’s potion but they are also the subjects of fascinating research projects presented by Unitec’s School of Environmental and Animal Sciences at the… Continue Reading →

New Kaupapa Māori research centre at Unitec

Artworks depicting tui in Unitec’s pā harakeke painted by artist and Maia Māori Centre lecturer Hohepa Renata, grace the walls of the newly-opened Ngā Wai a Te Tūī Māori Research Centre. The name was gifted to Research Centre head Jenny… Continue Reading →

New research into climate change’s effect on weeds

Unitec’s Dr Glenn Aguilar, Associate Professor Dan Blanchon and Lauren Hannah have co-authored a new research paper on the projected spread of the Mexican Daisy (Erigeron karvinskianus), a garden flower turned invasive weed that is spreading its way through the… Continue Reading →

Unitec response to the Mayoral Housing Taskforce

Commissioned Science Challenge research on Auckland’s housing supply crisis by three Unitec researchers has recently been published by BRANZ, the Building Research Association of New Zealand. Unitec supplied Science Challenge Think Pieces on three subjects aiming to aid in solving… Continue Reading →

Unitec engineer has weeds, cannabis in her sights

Since joining Unitec as Head of Practice Pathway in Engineering and Applied Technology in 2017, Melanie Ooi has been on fire. An expert in measurement with a focus on working with uncertainty in electrical and electronic engineering and computational intelligence,… Continue Reading →

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