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The funding will be used to boost the University of Canterbury’s Applied Immersive Gaming Initiative, which will research and accelerate public use of immersing gaming applications.

“We are validating our deepest ideas about the physical world by testing them in the most extreme environment we can imagine.”

If there’s one city in New Zealand that has been in a constant state of transformation, Christchurch stands out - and it’s shaping graduates’ lives.

“It is a long-term solution to make it easier, faster and cheaper to launch a rocket, making technology that relies on this more accessible."

Dr Deborah Crittenden has been named as a finalist for her efforts in research behind an 'infinitely' rechargeable battery.

Selva Ganapathy and Joyce Chen from the College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch were the APAC winners in 2017.

A University of Canterbury PhD student is using milk protein to 3D-imprint muscle and bone cells...

"There is so much call for people who really understand how to work with this new technology, and we are primed to educate the next generation."

The University of Canterbury has pulled off an Australasian first and is using cloud infrastructure and big data analytics to empower teachers.

"E-Week provides an opportunity for curious young minds to get hands-on experience, visit local companies, program a robot and build a lab-on-a-chip."

Summer holidays can lead to a drop in children’s learning levels when they are left to electronic devices.

UoC Professor Paul Millar believes it’s never been more important to focus on preserving the record of what Canterbury went through.

University of Canterbury psychology researchers are working with a robot known as Baxter to understand human-robot interaction such as trust, cooperation, social behaviour, aggression and moral decision-making.

Sam Jarman hopes the website will increase the number of participants involved in research projects, leading to more reliable and statistically sound results.

A University of Canterbury postgraduate electrical and computer engineering student is designing a hybrid renewable energy power system for the Ha’apai Island group in Tonga.

Christchurch is unique in the world, combining the rollout of Ultra-Fast Broadband with the rebuilding of the city following its devastating earthquakes.

Tablet based systems are at the forefront of the construction industry with regards to health and safety as well as pricing and work scoping.

"The results of the study show that our computer game improved the social skills of the participants significantly more than the psychologist-led group intervention."

"The way I see it is that parents are going to Google, or read numerous books looking for this information."

Two University of Canterbury graduates are pitching their software programme Glassjar to Lightning Lab in the hope of receiving follow-on funding to assist their product’s growth in the global market.

Around the country this week recipients of several InternetNZ grants were a step closer to realising their research goals.

Music education needs to be more open to the use of digital technology says a University of Canterbury researcher.

People will soon be able to walk the streets of Christchurch and see how it was before the earthquake using a wearable augmented reality device developed by the University of Canterbury.