FIELDS OF GOLD ORIGINS Using plants to mine minerals The peopling of Madagascar Massey News from Massey University I Issue 21 I July 2012 www.definingnz.com Road to Rome Sam McCafferty heads to Italy Games plans Helping to organise the London Olympics | Massey University | July 2012 | definingnz | 1 CONTENTS JULY 2012 20 15 COVER STORY PROFILES 8 The road to Rome 5 Goal oriented Student Sam McCafferty has reimagined the Football Fern Anna Green. form of the smaller motorcycle. Now Honda is sending him to Rome. 6 Games plans Events organiser Lara Middleditch is making sure the London Olympics run sweetly. 22 Speaking out Retired language lecturer Rolf Panny has led an extraordinary life: from the battlefields of World War II to the student unrest of the 1960s and, at last, on to Massey in Manawatu-. Website: www.definingnz.com Editor: Malcolm Wood
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[email protected] Copyright: You are generally welcome to reproduce material provided you first gain permission from the editor. 2 | definingnz | July 2012 | Massey University 22 11 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 14 Origins 10 Campus wide Computational biologist Murray Cox has A round-up of news come to some startling conclusions about the from Massey’s three campuses. settlement of Madagascar. Most of the first settlers came not from Africa, just across the Tools of trade way, but from Indonesia, 6000 kilometres of 13 open ocean distant.