For he's a jolly good fellow Adrian Jull has been elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry for his outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry in the field of chemical education. 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 Archive
| | Recent Research Grants
2009- FRST of $5760000 over 7 years to Ashton Partridge for the project High Efficiency Organic Photovaltaics
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor of $22750 over 1 years to Steve Haslett for the project Design and analysis of a national sample survey of entrepreneurship in Tonga, in conjunction with AUSAid, the Tongan Department of Statistics and Unitec
- Marsden of $735,000 over 3 years to Steve Pascal and Prof. Jill Trewhella, U. Sydney/U. Utah;Dr. Kaushik Dutta, NYSBC for the project Looking over a four-leaf clover: structural characterisation of a critical picornaviral RNA clover leaf and its interaction with a viral fusion protein
- Marsden of $860,000 over 3 years to Geoff Jameson, Mark Waterland and Pat Edwards and Gavin Hedwig, David Penny, Jeff Tallon for the project Optimal chemical and physical conditions for the origin of RNA life forms
- Marsden of $519,000 over 3 years to Barbara Holland for the project Untangling complex evolution: when the Tree of Life is not a tree at all
- Marsden of $851,000 over 3 years to Uli Zuelicke and Joachim Brand (PI) for the project Icy tornadoes in the quantum world - Josephson junctions of Bose-Einstein condensates
- Marsden of $525,000 over 3 years to Robert McLachlan and Matthew Perlmutter and Stephen Marsland (PI) for the project Geodesics in diffeomorphism groups: geometry and applications
2008- UN World Food Programme of $US25000 over 1 years to Steve Haslett and Geoff Jones for the project Small Area Estimation of Poverty: Cambodia
- Dumont d'Urville NZ/France Science & Technology Support Programme of $16805 over 2 years to Vyacheslav Filichev and Prof. Alexandre Boutorine from Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) for the project Sequence specific genomic DNA targeting with twisted intercalating nucleic acids (TINA), polyamide minor groove binders and their conjugates
- Marsden of $310000 to Martin Hazelton for the project New tools for statistical inference for network-based transportation models
- Massey Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to Vyacheslav Filichev and Gareth Rowlands for the project DNA: a new code for catalysis
- FIET of $750 to Tammy Lynch (formerly Smith) for the project Online Maths Consultancy for Extramural Students
- FIET of $8000 to Tammy Lynch (formerly Smith) for the project Visualising Mathematics: Interactive, Online Audio-Visual Tutorials
- MURF of $5961 to Andrew Brodie for the project Phosphazene-Spin Crossover Complexes
- MURF of $6130 to Vyacheslav Filichev for the project Paracyclophane and DNA
- MURF of $6050 to Shane Telfer for the project Catalytically Active MOFs
- MURF of $7480 to Gareth Rowlands for the project An Improved Acid Catalyst
- MURF of $7130 to Mark Waterland for the project Ionic Liquids-Super Solvents
- FRST-NERF subcontract of $251000 over 6 years to Uli Zuelicke and Dr Ben Ruck and Prof HJ Trodahl, Victoria University of Wellington for the project Rare-Earth nitride spintronics devices
- UN World Food Programme of $US25000 over 1 years to Steve Haslett and Geoff Jones for the project Small Area Estimation of Poverty: Timor-Leste
- UN World Food Programme of $US25000 over 1 years to Steve Haslett and Geoff Jones for the project Small Area Estimation of Poverty: Bhutan
- Official Statistics Research of $89000 over 2 years to Steve Haslett and Geoff Jones and Alasdair Noble for the project More or Less? Using statistical modelling to combine existing data sources
2007- Marsden of $670000 over 3 years and Joachim Brand for the project Please do not stand in my way, Sir! Studying the few-body dynamics of ultra-cold atoms
- MURF Postdoctoral Fellowship to Mark Waterland and Shane Telfer for the project Connecting the (Quantum) Dots
- Marsden of $720000 over 3 years and Peter Schwerdtfeger for the project Chemistry at extreme conditions - Materials at ultra-high pressures from first principles quantum theoretical methods
- Marsden Fast Start of $170000 over 2 years to Vyacheslav Filichev for the project Synthetic probes yielding stable and selective DNA triplexes for gene visualization
- Technical support of $35000 to Gareth Rowlands for the project Alternative forms of chirality in the developmemt of novel organocatalysts
- FIET of $6500 to Mark Waterland and Adrian Jull for the project Cooperative Learning in the Chemistry Classroom: A New Approach to Undergraduate Laboratories
- Marsden Standard Grant of $800000 over 3 years to Uli Zuelicke and Tony Signal and Assoc Prof AR Hamilton, UNSW (Australia); Assoc Prof R Winkler, NIU (USA) for the project Jitterbug on a chip: Semiconductor nanospintronics meets relativistic quantum physics
- MURF Postdoctoral Fellowship to Paul Plieger for the project Metal Salt Extractants
- Marsden Fast Start of $170000 over 2 years and Dr Jon-Ivar Skullerud (NUIM, Maynooth) Patrick Bowman for the project Bondage and Confinement: How Hadrons keep their Quarks
2006- Marsden of $870000 over 3 years and Peter Schwerdtfeger for the project The search for molecular parity violation
- RSNZ-ISAT Grant of $7000 over 2 years to Uli Zuelicke and Prof M-W Wu, USTC (PR of China) for the project Hole nano-spintronics
- FIET of $5250 to Paul Plieger for the project Green Chemistry in Action
- Marsden over 3 years to Barbara Holland and Jan Schmid (PI, IMBS), Richard Cannon (Otago) for the project Candida albicans: Survival without sex?
- RSNZ-Marsden Grant of $720000 over 3 years to Steve Pascal and Dr. Kaushik Dutta, NYSBC; Prof. Vivek Rangnekar, U. Kentucky for the project The Zipper, the Butterfly and Death: Structural studies of an apoptosis-triggering protein-protein interaction linked to prostate cancer and neurodegenerative disease
- Fund for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Award of $16300 over 1 years to Steve Pascal and Pat Edwards and Jennie McKelvie for the project Interactive visualization of NMR spectroscopy
- Health Research Council Grant of $28000 over 1 years to Geoff Jameson and Steve Pascal and Pat Edwards for the project Purchase of an automated tune and match (ATM) module for 700 MHz NMR Cryoprobe
2005- MURF Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant of $100196 to Uli Zuelicke for the project Theory of spin-dependent transport in nanostructures
- FIET to Uli Zuelicke and Mark Waterland for the project Symbolic Mathematics Software: A New Tool in the Chemistry Curriculum
- Marsden Fast-Start Grant of $140000 over 2 years to Paul Plieger and Prof. Peter Tasker, UEdin, UK for the project Synergistic control of anion encapsulation: Towards drug delivery systems
- Marsden of $480000 over 3 years to Barbara Holland and David Penny (IMBS), Mike Steel (Canterbury) for the project Genome-scale plant phylogeny and the challenge of lineage-specific sequence evolution
2004- Marsden Fast-Start Grant of $140000 over 2 years to Uli Zuelicke and Dr Michele Governale, SNS Pisa (Italy) for the project Spintronics without magnets: A new road to nanodevices and quantum information processing
- RSNZ-Marsden Grant of $630000 over 3 years to Steve Pascal for the project Picornaviral Replication: Structures and Interactions of Two Key Viral Molecules
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