Green Impact comes to Christchurch campus
Green Impact is an initiative where staff and students are empowered to make their part of the University a more sustainable and healthy place. Staff and students form teams and work through a check-list of initiatives in the areas of engagement, resource use, well-being, travel, energy and leadership and innovation.
Christchurch has its first Green Impact team comprised of (from left in the picture below) Jen Dreaver, Kosta Tabakakis, Karen Chaney, Emily Oughton, and Katharina Stirland (the latter missing from picture) from the research office. They established a few weeks ago and have ensured recycling bins on the fifth floor of the main building (where they are based) are well-placed; ordered stickers for light switches; and investigated fair trade suppliers for tea and coffee.
Email the sustainability team for more information or to start your own team.
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Postgraduate advertising campaign
For the first time the University is running a postgraduate advertising campaign split by division. The objective of the health sciences campaign running in October is to raise awareness we are New Zealand's number one university for health studies and have three dedicated campuses.
The Christchurch campus is being promoted by outdoor billboard, bus shelter and bus back ads, as well as ads in specialist publications such as NZ Doctor and on social media.
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New CMRF website showcases our people and projects
The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation has refreshed its website and includes plenty of stories about our Christchurch health research projects. It includes a video about diabetes researcher Martin de Boek, and a story about our Dean Professor David Murdoch and his time as a Summer Student.
Check out the new CMRF homepage here:
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Our new Associate Dean (Research)
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Congratulations to new Associate Dean (Research) Professor Lisa Stamp. Lisa is an internationally successful researcher in the field of rheumatology. She begins her five-year term in December.
Lisa will be replacing Professor Margreet Vissers who steps down after 11 productive years in the role.
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A refreshed student common room
Facilities and Services Manager Jack Stewart has worked with medical students to improve their common room. The area now has reupholstered seating, a new pool table, more couches, new prints, has been repainted, and had carpets cleaned.
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Staff in the news
The work of Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama and her MIHI team on health inequalities was shared in story on stuff.co.nz piece.
Associate Professor Tim Woodfield was part of an expert panel discussing the future of 3D-bioprinting that was aired on ABC radio in Australia. Listen to the broadcast.
The Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies' Master of Nursing Science course featured in the latest edition of Metropol. Read the story.
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University of Otago, Christchurch staff and students were judges at a recent NIWA Canterbury-Westland School's Science and Technology Fair. More than 50 students between Yrs 7 and 13 took part in the competition to find scientific solutions to common problems including the most effective UV-blocking sunscreens, environmentally-friendly toothpaste, and whether music affects blood pressure. Pictured are two students finding out more about out campus.
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Pathology turns blue
The Pathology Department turned blue and held a Blue Do morning tea and bake sale to raise money for Blue September. They raised just over $300 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
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