University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury developing self-cleaning surface coat which destroys bacteria when exposed to light ... The University of Canterbury's Advanced Energy and Material Lab is undertaking the research which is focusing on creating self-cleaning surface coatings that destroy bacteria simply by being exposed to light.

It's been seven years since University of Canterbury's Student Volunteer Army was formed, and on Saturday it was out in full force. The students helped clean up Christchurch's Godley Head - a Department of Conservation reserve and historic WWII site in the Port Hills. More than 1000 students were out of ...

Times are looking up for the University of Canterbury, with almost 1000 new students enrolled than last year. It's experiencing student increases across all five of their colleges, with a total new enrolment increase of 15 per cent since last year - and record numbers of engineering and post-graduate students.

Students are returning to the University of Canterbury after deserting Christchurch in droves after the September 2010 and February 2011 earthquakes. Christchurch will be buzzing with students this autumn after the number of new enrolments at the University of Canterbury (UC) increased for a fourth year ...

... slogan "Let's do this". The slogan launched in the weeks after Jacinda Ardern replaced former Labour Party leader Andrew Little, ahead of the party's successful election result. Yesterday, the slogan was revitalised by young supporters of the party at their stand at the University of Canterbury clubs day.

New Zealand has laid claim to an engineering world first - a 3D-printed titanium engine designed and built by a group of students at the University of Canterbury. The feat of ingenuity was unveiled on Friday morning and will be used in the 2018 Shell Asia Eco-marathon in Singapore in March.

Subject snobbery was on display at the University of Canterbury recently when a lecturer's teaching slide claimed: "If engineering was easy, they'd call it arts instead." Luke Goode, associate professor in media and communication at the University of Auckland, tweeted a photo of the slide on Wednesday, ...

The University of Canterbury (UC), which first launched its world-leading digital archive documenting the Canterbury earthquakes in 2012, has released its new, improved UC QuakeStudies research repository. QuakeStudies is an online repository and UC's contribution to the CEISMIC programme.

A New Zealand academic who made international waves researching China's international influence campaigns has linked a number of recent break-ins to her work. University of Canterbury professor Anne-Marie Brady, speaking today from Christchurch to the Australian Parliament's Intelligence and ...

From its explosion-proof room to the glacier creation station, the University of Canterbury's new $155 million science building is a place to "find hope and aspiration for the future," the Prime Minister says. Jacinda Ardern opened the Ernest Rutherford Building with fireworks on Thursday, furthering the ...