by juliet | Aug 30, 2019 | Equity, diversity & inclusion, In the news, Internships
One of our interns, Dr Tara McAllister (Te Aitanga ā Māhaki), and her fellow researcher, Dr Sereana Naepi, joined RNZ to talk about their research into the stubbornly low numbers of Māori and Pasifika working at New Zealand universities. Read and listen to the...
by juliet | Aug 30, 2019 | Equity, diversity & inclusion, From the OPMCSA, Internships
Kia ora koutou It has been a high profile week for equity, diversity and inclusion issues in science and academia, so it seemed timely to update on some of our intern projects. We have three projects in this space, with interns David Pomeroy, Tara McAllister and...
by juliet | Aug 6, 2019 | Artificial intelligence, From the OPMCSA, Internships
Our second MacDiarmid intern left us last week, leaving us with lots of great resources on artificial intelligence which, unlike quantum computing, the subject of Wayne Crump’s recently finished internship with us, is technology that is very much upon is. As a taster...
by juliet | Jul 23, 2019 | From the OPMCSA
This week the Royal Society Te Apārangi has put out an accessible report on Plastics in the Environment: Te Ao Hurihuri – The Changing World. It is a great summary of the problems we face internationally dealing with the mountain of plastic waste that humans have...
by juliet | Jul 12, 2019 | From the OPMCSA, Internships, Quantum computing
Kia ora koutou In March we were excited to launch our intern programme, and have particularly enjoyed having our enthusiastic PhD graduates from the MacDiarmid Institute join us in the Office to have a first look at some of the projects that we are not resourced to...