21 Aug 2017 | Our stories
Te Pūnaha Matatini is a major contributor to the Aotearoa-New Zealand Science Journalism Fund, which recently awarded $20,000 in funding to several New Zealand science journalists to cover stories ranging from genomics to driverless vehicles to climate change. This...
21 Mar 2017 | Our stories
Te Pūnaha Matatini investigator Dr Rebecca Priestley has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize. Dr Priestley is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in the Science in Society Group. She has been an...
26 Jan 2017 | Our stories
A fundraising campaign and gala screening of the critically acclaimed film Hidden Figures has raised $13,500 to help establish a scholarship for women to study physical sciences, maths or engineering in 2018. Te Pūnaha Matatini’s Executive Manager Kate Hannah,...
11 Jan 2017 | Our stories
Te Pūnaha Matatini Associate Investigator Dr Michael O’Sullivan discusses analytics to improve health delivery systems. Michael researches a combination of Operations Research and Analytics and is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Engineering Science and...
21 Dec 2016 | Our stories
Enjoy craft? Then you probably enjoy mathematics too, you just may not know it. This was the idea behind the recent Maths Craft Festival, a weekend-long festival held at the Auckland Museum, celebrating the many links between mathematics and craft. The Festival was...
