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Top achievement by Massey graduate Massey BSc graduate of the early 1970s, Robert G Buckley, has been awarded, with Jeff Tallon, the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Prize for outstanding achievement in Science. The award recognises their contributions in creating a new high-value High Temperature Superconductivity industry for New Zealand. Bob now manages the IRL's HTS group. Drs Buckley and Tallon receive prize money of $500,000, with $400,000 going to IRL for continued development of HTS technology. Budding Scientists win at Manawatu Science Fair Dinithi Bowawte (PNINS) was awarded the IFS Chemistry Prize for her project 'A convenient truth' while the IFS Physics Prize went to Callum Judd (Ross Intermediate) for 'Conquering corners' - How best to turn a corner while speed skating - and Lane Huffman-Devey (PNINS) received the IFS Statistics Prize for 'Guided by the light' - A driveway lighting system. | News ArchiveNews articles have been archived since mid-September 2008. Statistical Conference will honour Chin-Diew Lai(10 February, 2010) Alasdair, Jonathan and Chin-Diew have preparations underway for the NZSA/Statistical Methodologies 2010 Conference in June-July. Exceptional teaching celebrated(31 October, 2009) Staff gathered on Thursday to honour Mark Waterland, Bill Williams, Christine Burr and Raj Govindaraju as they received the 2009 IFS Distinguished Teacher Awards. Visitors react with zest and spark(28 October, 2009) Adrian Jull hosted a very successful visit to the labs by Year 12 students of Wairarapa College recently as reported in "Pupils extract lots from orange day in lab" Wairarapa Times-Age on 20 October 2009. The visitors extracted orange oil and made a conducting polymer. Reward follows Battery(7 October, 2009) Simon Hall is the latest to join the professorial ranks. Chemists welcome back former student(30 September, 2009) Dr Michael Edmonds from CPIT revisited IFS on 30 September to give a seminar entitled "School of Applied Sciences and Allied Health, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology " in which he covered his research and his teaching. Mathematics suffer huge loss(29 September, 2009) Staff and students were shocked by the sudden death yesterday, 28 September 2009, of Marijcke Vlieg, a much loved and respected colleague and teacher in mathematics. The Institute has lost an outstanding academic colleague who was distinguished by the depth of her commitment to her subject, colleagues and students. 2009 Institute photo released(27 September, 2009) View here. Exceptional work rewarded(28 August, 2009) IFS celebrated at tea on Thursday the news that Steve Pascal has been promoted to Associate Professor, Vyacheslav Filichev and Alasdair Noble to Senior Lecturer with Mark Waterland promoted to Senior Lecturer range 2. Energy-efficient research rewarded(17 July, 2009) Ashton Partridge, has received a $5.76m grant from FRST for the project High Efficiency Organic Photovaltaics. This project aims to produce by 2016 an all-plastic, recyclable, high efficiency photovoltaic cell that can be incorporated into a roofing product and which is capable of providing the total average energy requirements for a household. The beneficiaries will, in the first instance be New Zealanders, with access to cheaper, cleaner energy, and an assurance of supply. It will also have significant impact on reducing the effects on the environment associated with generation and transmission of the grid-tied energy solutions. In the longer term, it will play a significant role in meeting a very real global need for clean, sustainable energy. New Emeritus Professor(8 June, 2009) Professor Andrew Brodie, who retired from Massey after 39 years of distinguished service, has been awarded the title Emeritus Professor by the University. The Council's Honorary Awards Committee noted his "long and loyal service to both the University and its reputation and, in particular, his active research career and his outstanding international reputation as a synthetic inorganic chemist." Former Student returns(28 May, 2009) Dr Mark Johnston, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, Victoria University of Wellington, visited Massey in Palmerston North on 3 June 2009 to deliver a Mathematics Seminar entitled INSIGHT FROM VISUALISATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMISATION. Ting Wang wins Best Paper award(26 May, 2009) Congratulations to Ting Wang, PhD student in Statistics, for winning the Best Paper award at the Second International Conference on Information & Systems Sciences held in Dalian, China, December 18-21 2008, for her talk "A comparative study of coherence, mutual information and cross- intensity models." Stephanie Manley stands out(14 May, 2009) Stephanie Manley, Senior Physics Tutor at Albany, has been nominated for the 2009 Lecturer of the Year. Andrew Brodie retires after 39 years(5 May, 2009) Professor Andrew Brodie, inorganic chemist and former HoD, formally retired on Friday 1 May 2009 after a very successful career at Massey. At a well attended function at MUSA lounge, the walls echoed to the strains of "Yesterday" (with new words) and "Andrew's Song" (to "A Bicycle Built for 2") lustily sung by the LactoBikers. Einstein's Universe when Physics and Music Combine(20 March, 2009)
What happens when you add music to science? Discover how CERN and LHC will guide us on a journey to the heart of matter; with music by Bach, Mozart and Kreisler. Travel opportunities(17 March, 2009) IFS postgraduate students are reminded of the deadline on 1 May 2009 for applications for travel grants. The forms are available on the IFS intra site. Dr Rex Gallagher returns(26 February, 2009) Dr Gallagher gave a special IMBS seminar entitled Fungal Tremorgens, A Historical Perspective: 35 Years On Since Proposal As Causative Agents of Ryegrass Staggers on 24th February 2009 at Ira Cunningham Lecture Theatre, Massey University. Morrison Medal for Prof Peter Derrick(22 February, 2009) Peter Derrick has been awarded the Morrison Medal of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry at the 22nd Conference on 29th January in Sydney. His protégé Professor Margaret Sheil, now CEO of the Australian Research Council, came up from Canberra for the day to deliver a lengthy and glowing tribute introducing Peter's lecture. He delivered an inspiring lecture on the Mass Spectrometry of Macromolecules touching on his many research achievements in the field of mass spectrometry in a career spanning Australia, the UK, and NZ. "Nanocamp was awesome"(2 February, 2009) So say 12 High School students from around New Zealand who gathered at Massey University for a full-on week of Nanoscience during January. Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto visits IFS in February(29 January, 2009)
Sir Harold Kroto will give two public lectures during his stay at Massey University. Professor Kroto is a world leader in the groundbreaking realm of nanoscience and nanotechnology, a new area at the borderline of chemistry, physics and biology involving the study of matter on an extremely small scale. Massey scores 2 out of 2(17 December, 2008) Dr Barbara Holland has received the NZMS Early Career Award for 2008. This is a research award for mathematicians normally within 7 years of receiving their PhD. The award was announced and presented at the Australia-New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium in Christchurch on 11 December. She was cited for her Young physicist wins NZSA Research Medal(1 December, 2008) Associate Professor Uli Zuelicke was awarded the Research Medal of the New Zealand Association of Scientists on 1 December 2008. This medal is awarded annually to a scientist under the age of 40 for outstanding research undertaken principally in New Zealand in the three preceding years. Palmie ears tune in to bell seminar(14 November, 2008) English and Russian church bells rang out in their very different styles when IFS Honorary Research Associate for many years, Dr Robert Perrin , gave an interesting and amusing account of the history and acoustics of bells to a very receptive audience at Te Manawa on 12 November, 2008. The tuning of bells, the control of their “warble” and the controversial concept of the “strike note” were discussed. Distinguished Professor wins Rutherford Medal(12 November, 2008) Distinguished Professor David Parry, Head of Institute from 1997 to 2006, was awarded the Rutherford Medal on 11 November 2008 at the RSNZ awards dinner held at Te Papapa, Wellington for his ground-breaking work into the structure and function of fibrous proteins. RSNZ's most prestigious award, the Rutherford Medal is awarded annually to a scientist of distinction who stands in high public esteem through research work of international significance. That's not cricket(23 October, 2008) Staff outbatted the students in Wednesday's cricket match gaining a 98-16 win reversing last year's result, while the students split the ball. Mike Hendy honoured by NZMS(22 October, 2008) The New Zealand Mathematical Society's Research Award for 2008 is made to Professor Mike Hendy. Mike's innovative mathematical approach to molecular ecology and evolution transformed the field. His seminal work on the Hadamard transform - used to separate out pertinent signals in evolutionary data - is now an integral part of phylogenetic software internationally and has contributed to the solution of several fundamental problems. Czech Mass Spec expert visits(14 October, 2008) Visiting IFS at present is Petr Man of the Institute of Microbiology in Prague. His visit is one of several personnel exchanges between the IMIC (Vladimir Havlicek) and IFS (Peter Derrick)/IMBS (Gill Norris). This collaboration, funded by the European Union through the Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge scheme, is aimed at the basics and applications of Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. Petr is mainly working with Gill on peptidoglycan and protein analysis. Martin Hazelton wins Marsden Grant for Statistical Modelling of Transport Networks(30 September, 2008) With petrol costs rising and environmental impact of road emissions being watched, research in transportation science has never been more important. Professor Hazelton aims to develop a new, unified theory for the statistical properties of network-based traffic models to provide more reliable tools for transport planning and management. The Grant will fund a PhD student and facilitate collaboration with U.K researchers. Viatcheslav Filitchev scores the trifecta(29 September, 2008) Viatcheslav is awarded the Massey University Early Careers Medal 2008. Not only that, he shares a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant with Gareth Rowlands and has a separate MURF grant besides. Double success for Tammy Smith(20 September, 2008) Both Tammy’s projects gained FIET Awards. The projects are Visualising Mathematics: Interactive, Online Audio-Visual Tutorials and Online Maths Consultancy for Extramural Students. Tony Signal working on "big bang" for CERN(14 September, 2008) Tony, chairman of the NZ group collaborating with the international CMS experiment at CERN, has been involved with some of the design of the experiment, which will use the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the new Large Hadron Collider, to collide two beams of protons to replicate the "big bang" that created the Universe. He seeks answers to questions about the origin of mass and the nature of the mysterious "dark matter" in the universe which normal physics can't explain. |
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