News

UC professor new head of MacDiarmid Institute (17 Sept)
Professor Richard Blaikie, of the University of Canterbury's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, has been appointed Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

Political parties do keep promises after all (16 Sept)
The major New Zealand political parties that were in Government between 1972 and 2005 honoured at least half of their pre-election manifesto pledges, with some administrations nearly 90 per cent true to their word.

UC wins law competition award (15 Sept)
University of Canterbury law students claimed two of the four main competition prizes at the annual New Zealand Law Students' Association Conference, taking the inaugural Anderson Lloyd President’s Prize for the best performing university. 

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Events

Particle accelerators: making subatomic particles go very fast - 23 Sept
In this public lecture visiting Oxford Fellow Professor Philip Burrows, from Oxford University, will look at the mysteries of subatomic physics and explain how particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, work.

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