Feb 20, 2020 | News & Events
Three Te Pūnaha Matatini interns report on their 2019-20 summer placement with the Ministry for the Environment, where they piloted a complex systems approach to modelling policy problems. Shnece Duncan, Ellena Black and Quyen Nguyen During our internship, we looked...
Dec 20, 2019 | News & Events
By Ebba Olsen and Kahu Te Kani Te Pūnaha Matatini (TPM) plans to introduce carbon emission reductions as a KPI from 2021 onwards. To prepare, we have analysed our carbon emissions (CO2e) from staff air travel over the past few years to better understand the...
Nov 1, 2019 | News & Events
Te Pūnaha Matatini provided much of the impetus for Nebula Data, an innovative new data visualisation company set up by physicists with the help of the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Nebula Data, which aims to...
Oct 23, 2019 | News & Events
Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson (pictured), Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators and the co-founders of Maths Craft New Zealand, have been awarded the 2019 New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS) Cranwell Medal for Science Communication. Jeanette and Phil,...
Sep 16, 2019 | News & Events
Most high achieving female students studying physics at university choose to discontinue physics as a core subject, not because they aren’t good at physics, but because they pursue further study in the life sciences. This is one of the key findings of a paper...
