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UC in the News - March 2006

Published by Communications and Development

March 2006

Mr Jim Anglem (Social Work)

• A lust for violence, Press, 21.3.06.

Dr Ghazala Anwar (Philosophy and Religious Studies)

• PM puts faith in religious peace forum, Otago Daily Times, 13.3.06;
• Faith, hope and security-plus trade, Dominion Post, 14.3.06;
• PM to address religious forum, Wairarapa Times-Age, 14.3.06;
• Clark puts her faith in talks, Manawatu Standard, 14.3.06;
• Just eight academic jobs cut, Press, 21.3.06;
• College cutting jobs, Nelson Mail, 21.3.06.;
• Anger at threat to Islamic course, New Zealand Herald, 30.3.06.

Associate Professor Tim Bell (Computer Science and Software Engineering)

• Tuning in to podcast lessons, Dominion Post, 1.3.06;
• Now podcasts bring lectures right into your home, Southland Times, 2.3.06;
• Christchurch university student use podcast to listen to lectures..., TV One News, 5.3.06;
• Canterbury University podcasts lectures to students, NZ Education Review, 15.3.06.

Dr Mark Billinghurst (Human Interface Technology Laboratory)

• Tall poppies honoured, Hawkes Bay Today, 2.3.06;
• HIT Laboratory prize, Press, 3.3.06;
• IT award, Star-Western Canterbury, 13.3.06;
• Invisible computers and augmented reality, Computerworld NZ, 27.3.06;
• World-class achievement celebrated, Bright, 31.3.06.

Associate Professor Robin Bond (Classics and Linguistics)

• Staff cuts could end courses warn lecturers, Press, 9.3.06;
• Purblind ideology, Press, 25.3.06.

Dr Paul Broady (Biological Sciences)

• A spotty question, Manawatu Standard, 6.3.06.

Ms Margaret Brown (Conference Office)

• Academic expertise sets conference office apart, Press, 13.3.06.

Associate Professor Geoff Chase (Mechanical Engineering)

• Engineering students come up with life-saving computational wheel, TV One (ASB Business), 23.3.06.

Associate Professor Peter Cottrell (Physics & Astronomy)

• Stargazers' future foggy - expert, Press, 10.3.06;
• Kiwi expert tips end to stargazing, Dominion Post, 11.3.06.

Professor Scott Davidson (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Law)

• Call to law stays strong, Press, 8.3.06.

Associate Professor Alison Downard (Chemistry)

• How safe is suncreen?, Press, 7.3.06.

Associate Professor Denis Dutton (Philosophy and Religious Studies)

• Chequebook journalism, kidnapping of foreigners..., TRN (Newstalk ZB Wellington), 27.3.06.

Dr John Freeman-Moir (Education)

• Job cuts threaten academic merger, Press, 24.3.06.

Dr Chris Gallavin (Law)

• When feelings are irrelevant, New Zealand Herald, 13.3.06.

Professor John Gibson (Economics)

• An abysmal record, Press, 9.3.06.

Dr Joanna Goven (Political Science and Communication)

• Report dismisses claims of ill health from aerial spraying, New Zealand Herald, 23.3.06.

Dr Alan Happer (Chemistry)

• Versatile, volatile camphor, Manawatu Standard, 20.3.06.

Associate Professor Jack Heinemann (Biological Sciences)

• Call for warning over gay gene, Timaru Herald, 14.3.06;
• Expert gay gene could be passed on, Taranaki Daily News, 14.3.06.

Professor Rob Hughes (Psychology)

• New professors at University of Canterbury, NZ Education Review, 1.3.06;
• University stands firm on job cuts, Dominion Post, 8.3.06.

Professor Peter Jackson (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Engineeering)

• NBR premium selection, National Business Review, 24.3.06.

Professor David Kelly (Biological Sciences)

• Come along, Press, 9.3.06.

Professor Simon Kemp (Psychology)

• Impact of loan scheme on graduates..., RNZ (Insight), 26.3.06.

Dr Ray Kirk (Health Sciences Centre)

• Conference without travel bills, Press, 22.3.06.

Dr Wendy Lawson (Geography)

• Unequivocal blame, Press, 13.3.06.

Dr Aditya Malik (Philosophy and Religious Studies)

• Fiery meeting fails to rescue arts jobs, Press, 6.3.06.

Professor Bob Manthei (Education)

• New professors at University of Canterbury, NZ Education Review, 1.3.06.

Professor Murray McEwan (Chemistry)

• Research into devices that can smell, RNZ (Afternoon with Jim Mora), 21.3.06.

Mr Stuart McMillan (National Centre for Research on Europe)

• What the end of Japan's deflation means for NZ, National Business Review, 3.3.06;
• Nuclear deal delights India but not Pakistan, National Business Review, 10.3.06;
• India considers a fully convertible rupee, National Business Review, 24.3.06;
• EU takes nervous step to single energy policy, National Business Review, 31.3.06.

Professor Howard McNaughton (Culture, Literature and Society)

• What must they do?, Press, 18.3.06.

Associate Professor Don McNickle (Management)

• Mystery of 'Opo lady' solved, Northern News, 22.3.06.

Associate Professor Greg Newbold (Sociology and Anthropology)

• Goodwin will stay on run: academic, Southland Times, 2.3.06;
• Conman will stay on run - academic, Stuff, 2.3.06;
• Getting away with it, Sunday Star Times, 5.3.06;
• There are predictions that New Zealand's prison population..., TRN (Newstalk ZB ChCh), 8.3.06;
• Justice Minister is to call for more non-custodial sentences..., RNZ (Morning Report), 8.3.06;
• Unjustified convictions report lifts lid on legal system disquiet, Stuff, 10.3.06;
• Strenuous opposition to more non-custodial sentences, Newswire, 11.3.06;
• Prison officers back call for Parliamentary inquiry, RNZ, 20.3.06;
• Ministry of Corrections replacing some of its programmes, RNZ (Morning Report), 22.3.06.

Associate Professor Alan Nicholson (Civil Engineering)

• Safety of Kinloch Road questioned at inquest, Otago Daily Times, 31.3.06;
• Deaths blamed on state of road, Southland Times, 31.3.06;
• Cheap roading to blame for deaths, Manawatu Standard, 31.3.06.

Associate Professor David Norton (Forestry)

• DOC misleading, Press, 15.3.06;
• No land grab, Press, 21.3.06;
• A head for forensics, Ashburton Guardian, 18.3.06;
• Buttercup secret kept for years, Press, 23.3.06.

Dr Camilla Obel (Sociology and Anthropology)

• Call to restrict alcohol sales, Christchurch Star, 17.3.06.

Dr Jamie Pearce (Geography)

• Canty lifestyle lowers mortality, Press, 3.3.06;
• Canty one of the healthiest regions, Ashburton Guardian, 3.3.06.

Dr Neil Perry (Computer Science and Software Engineering)

• Universities are not businesses, Press, 13.3.06.

Dr Milenko Petrovic (National Centre for Research on Europe)

• Anger at Milosevic, Press, 13.3.06.

Professor Leon Phillips (Chemistry)

• Another cock-up, Press, 17.3.06;
• Conference without travel bills, Press, 22.3.06.

Mr Alan Robb (Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems)

• PPCS profits could take hit after tough trade times, Otago Daily Times, 4.3.06;
• PPCS half-year result may not be pretty, Hawkes Bay Today, 4.3.06;
• Cash flow critique gets raspberry, Farmers Weekly, 27.2.06;
• Signs of difficult times ahead for PPCS, Farmers Weekly, 6.3.06;
• Ferrier certain infrastructure focus important, Farmers Weekly, 20.3.06.

Ms Michelle Rogan-Finnemore (Gateway Antarctica)

• It's an ice course if you can get it, New Zealand Herald, 6.3.06.

Dr Julia Rucklidge (Psychology)

• Uneasy girls 'ignored', Press, 7.3.06;
• ADHD affects girls, Christchurch Star, 8.3.06;
• Equal ADHD, New Zealand Listener, 31.3.06.

Dr Cornelia Sears (Culture, Literature and Society)

• Bitter dissent, Press, 11.3.06.

Professor Roy Sharp (Vice-Chancellor)

• Fiery meeting fails to rescue arts jobs, Press, 6.3.06;
• European agricultural policy in a changing environment, Europa, 7.3.06;
• University stands firm on job cuts, Dominion Post, 8.3.06;
• Funding rise needed, Otago Daily Times, 11.3.06;
• Job cuts threat to university's core task, Press, 27.3.06;
• Protest at proposed job cuts, Star-Western Canterbury, 27.3.06

Professor Ian Shaw (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, College of Science)

• How safe is suncreen?, Press, 7.3.06;
• 'Gay gene' row over sperm donations, Stuff, 14.3.06.

Mr David Shellock (Political Science and Communication)

• TV3 broadcasts show disowned by Oprah, Press, 2.3.06.

Associate Professor Frank Sin (Biological Sciences)

• Gay gene heritable, Press, 13.3.06;
• There is evidence that sexual orientation has a genetic component ..., Radio Live, 14.3.06;
• Gay community upset by Christchurch scientist Frank Sin who claims..., TV3 (6pm News), 14.3.06;
• Frank Sin says infertile couples should be told..., Radio Live, 14.3.06;
• Sin calls for potential IVF receipients to be told ..., RNZ (Nine to Noon), 14.3.06;
• Recipients of sperm from gay donors should be told..., RNZ, (Afternoon with Jim Mora), 14.3.06;
• Infertile couples should be informed if their sperm donor is gay..., Radio Live, 14.3.06;
• 'Gay gene' row over sperm donations, Dominion Post, 14.3.06;
• 'Gay gene' row over sperm donations, Gisborne Herald, 14.3.06;
• Experts at odds over gay donors, Press, 14.3.06;
• Gay gene row over sperm donations, Marlborough Express, 14.3.06;
• Call for warning over gay gene, Timaru Herald, 14.3.06;
• Expert gay gene could be passed on, Taranaki Daily News, 14.3.06;
• Fury over claim, Nelson Mail, 14.3.06;
• Gay gene claim causes anger, Manawatu Standard, 14.3.06;
• Parents should be warned of gay gene, Daily Post, 14.3.06;
• Gay claim insulting, Otago Daily Times, 15.3.06;
• Choice v. genetics, Dominion Post, 16.3.06;
• Prof wants gay sperm donors labeled, United Press International, 17.3.06;
• Home, Sunday Star Times, 19.3.06;
• Sperm donors - it's a mother's right to discriminate, Sunday Star Times, 19.3.06;
• Medical Report, Washington Blade, 25.3.06.

Professor Harsha Sirisena (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

• New professors at University of Canterbury, NZ Education Review, 1.3.06.

Dr David Small (Education)

• Survey finds staff morale law at arts college, Press, 3.3.06;
• University stands firm on job cuts, Dominion Post, 8.3.06;
• AUS survey taps staff morale, NZ Education Review, 15.3.06.

Dr Alexandra Smith (Languages and Cultures)

• Just eight academic jobs cut, Press, 21.3.06.

Professor Ken Strongman (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Arts)

• Bitter dissent, Press, 11.3.06;
• Varsity's role at heart of dispute, Press, 15.3.06;
• Just eight academic jobs cut, Press, 21.3.06;
• College cutting jobs, Nelson Mail, 21.3.06;
• Look at Qualifications, Press, 27.3.06.

Dr Rawiri Taonui (Aotahi: Māori and Indigenous Studies)

• Fails to understand, Press, 1.3.06;
• Facts, not rhetoric, Press, 10.3.06;
• Deciding culture by putting it to the vote, Wanganui Chronicle, 23.3.06.

Professor Ian Town (Deputy Vice-Chancellor)

• Canterbury University opens music education research centre, NZ Education Review, 8.3.06.

Mr Jim Tully (Political Science and Communication)

• Lange release sparks Archives NZ lock-down, Sunday Star Times, 5.3.06;
• Battle rages over future of broadband, New Zealand Herald, 6.3.06;
• Mad Magazine, New Zealand Herald, 11.3.06;
• Campbell show under pressure, New Zealand Herald, 25.3.06;
• Concern at a financial arrangement between family and freed hostage..., TRN (Newstalk ZB, Wellington), 25.3.06;
• How arrests led to rescue for Sooden, New Zealand Herald, 25.3.06.
• It's average, no question about it, Sunday Star Times, 26.3.06;
• TVNZ deal annoys others, NZ City, 26.3.06;
• Exclusive hostage news deal 'could cost TVNZ $30,000', Ashburton Guardian, 25.3.06;
• Peace worker's family never lost hope, Otago Daily Times, 25.3.06;
• TVNZ to strike $30,000 deal?, Daily Post, 25.3.06;
• Campbell show under pressure as viewer ratings fail to grow, Gisborne Herald, 25.3.06;
• TVNZ confirm exclusive rights to Sooden's story, Gisborne Herald, 25.3.06;
• TVNZ accused of 'buying' family, Manawatu Standard, 25.3.06;
• Concern at financial arrangement between family of freed hostage and TVNZ, TRN (2ZB, Midday News); 25.3.06;
• Major upheaval in newspaper ownership, Mercantile Gazette, 27.3.06;
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs defending approach to television companies re: Harmeet Sooden, RNZ (Checkpoint), 28.3.06;
• Restrictions and responsibility are key suicide guides, Waikato Times, 30.3.06;
• Suicide campaigner Gregory Fortuin is critical of not publicising sudden deaths..., RNZ (Jim Mora), 30.3.06.

Dr Kate van Heugten (Social Work and Human Services)

• A lust for violence, Press, 21.3.06.

Dr Bruce Waldman (Biological Sciences)

• Senior academic sacked, Press, 1.3.06;
• Academic to appeal sacking, Nelson Mail, 1.3.06;
• Academic sacked, Marlborough Express, 1.3.06.