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Press releases
Māori scholar to share knowledge of school communities in the US
Māori scholar Dr Melinda Webber (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hau) from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education will share her unique knowledge of Aotearoa school communities with American counterparts at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay later this month, with the help of a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Travel Award.
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Fulbright welcomes American grantees in anniversary year
Fulbright New Zealand has begun its 65th anniversary year by welcoming 19 US exchange grantees to New Zealand, with an intensive week-long orientation programme in Wellington.
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Māori scholars to learn from indigenous American counterparts
Two Māori scholars – Eruera Tarena and Veronica Tawhai – will study the business and education practices of indigenous counterparts in the United States of America as recipients of Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Awards.
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Fijian migrant crosses the Pacific to write underwater tales
A Fiji raised, South Auckland poet will write his second book of poems and short stories as the recipient of the 2012 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency. The residency offers a New Zealand writer of Pacific heritage the opportunity to work for three months on a creative writing project exploring Pacific identity, culture or history, at the University of Hawai’i.
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Visiting American fellows report on New Zealand public policy
New Zealand’s approaches to fisheries management, science education, bilateral relations, military operations and social housing will be under the spotlight in a series of policy reports by visiting American policy researchers scheduled for release over the coming fortnight.
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American partner provides for more US Fulbright students to New Zealand
Fulbright New Zealand recently formalised a partnership with the New York-based American New Zealand Association (ANZA) to implement additional awards for US graduate students.
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Fulbright engineering expertise preserves lives and money
Doctoral candidate Jonathan Watkins will follow in the footsteps of his PhD supervisor and other University of Auckland graduates when he visits Iowa State University as a Fulbright grantee to research the use of self-centering precast concrete walls for the construction of earthquake-resilient buildings.
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Māori student sees traditional sports as key to development
A physical education graduate with a passion for ngā taonga takaro (traditional Māori sports and recreation) has been awarded this year’s Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award, to examine the potential for improving indigenous health, wellbeing and development through sport.
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Fulbright sponsors New Zealand speakers at major international Antarctic conference
Fulbright New Zealand is sponsoring researchers from three different New Zealand universities to speak at next week’s fifth Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Fulbright New Zealand honours NZ-US exchange grantees
Fulbright New Zealand last night honoured 84 grantees of Fulbright and associated NZ-US exchange awards for 2012, at its annual parliamentary awards ceremony in Wellington. The event was used to announce 26 recipients of various Fulbright New Zealand Graduate Awards to study or research in the United States of America in the 2012-2013 academic year.
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