October 2019

Predicting outcomes
Neuroscientist Cathy Stinear: professor helping revolutionise stroke rehabilitation.

My Story: Valeria Vergara
Val Vergara is manager of the Staff Common Room at OGH.

Spring Graduation
Three graduate stories that capture the imagination.

Māramatanga

HART and SOUL
Trevor Richards will appear in an event at the University on 30 October. He reflects on the protests of the 1970s that changed a nation.

What's New

• Muss-Bits gadget making a difference
• Haere Rā Tāmaki: the innovation campus farewell
• What we’re doing in the Shadows: News about Shadows bar
• Innovative new Blues Awards
• Rocket Man honoured
• Just the Business: Tony Falkenstein
  

Snapshots

• Motivations of a mophead, Selina Tusitala-Marsh book
• Successful SDG summit
• Increased numbers at Open Day
• FMHS Asian cultural festival

Culture and Events

• Critical Encounters: Tuia 250
  Cultural Collections has developed a programme of exhibitions, playlists and talks that offers a range of perspectives and approaches to the 250th anniversary of meetings between Māori and James Cook’s Endeavour crew in 1769-70.
• Daniel Solander Seminar and Paradise Lost: Solander’s Legacy.

Business Talks

• Environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt on the Role of Higher Education and Tertiary Institutions at a Time of Climate Emergency’.
• Inaugural lecture by Professor Charl De Villiers – sustainability accounting 17 October
• Inaugural lecture by Professor Leo Paas – big data 29 October

Gaudemus concert: 18 October 1.10pm, St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Symonds Street.