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+ Small Wonders Off the Grid MasseyThe magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University | Issue 28 | May 2011 off the grid bringing renewable power to Afghanistan + small wonders the scientific and commercial promise of Massey-developed ‘biobeads’ + Mister Speaker + Cheetahs in the Czech Republic | MASSEY | May 2011 | 1 | CONTENTS COVER STORY DEPARTMENTS 3 Campus Wide: A round-up of news 12 from Massey’s three campuses. Small Wonders 10 Awards: Massey recognises the The Massey commercial spin-off PolyBatics is using achievements of staff and alumni. bacteria to produce miniscule beads of bioplastic with a range of potential uses. Meet Professor Bernd 29 Mixed Media: The history of distance Rehm and his team. learning, how the kakapo was saved from the brink of extinction, the merits of Prime Minister William Massey, and much else. FEATURES 37 Alumni Notes and News: All about the 16 Massey alumni community. Writing Home Letters written home by New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli remain deeply moving. 18 Dr Smith Goes to Wellington We talk to a genuinely nice guy: Speaker of the House Lockwood Smith. Massey is published twice yearly by Massey University, Private Bag 11222, 22 Manawatu Mail Centre, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand At a Good Clip massey.ac.nz Website: news.massey.ac.nz The first woman to qualify through Massey as a Editor: Malcolm Wood wool classer, Hazel Riseborough later became a [email protected] pioneering historian and successful author. Hers is a Writers: Kereama Beal, Kathryn Farrow, James Gardiner, Bryan Gibson, Paul remarkable life story. Mulrooney, Jennifer Little, Bevan Rapson, Lana Simmons Donaldson, Kerri Welham Proofreading: Foolproof Photographers : Graeme Brown, Doug Cole, Mark Coote, David Wiltshire 26 Design : Grant Bunyan For changes of address or to send in your news, visit https://alumnionline. Off the Grid massey.ac.nz or email [email protected]. Tony Woods has established a Kabul-based Copyright: You are generally welcome to reproduce material from Massey, enterprise bringing renewable power to Afghan provided you first gain permission from the editor. villages. engine.ac.nz | 2 | May 2011 | MASSEY FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR productions. But the story was a genuine Year on year, the success rates for one, and New Zealanders were hungry treatment have climbed, and at the same to learn more about their country’s time the number of people attempting natural environment and its native to cram themselves into the centre’s species. The story of Don Merton 58-square-metre premises (that’s the and the saving of the Chatham Islands size of a one-bedroom apartment) has black robin created a groundswell of climbed. Veterinary nurses mix with public interest in the conservation of resident veterinarians and students, both New Zealand’s wildlife and natural undergraduate and postgraduate, and a environment. For this and other work stream of visiting researchers. Don Merton was awarded an honorary Hence plans are afoot for a new Doctorate of Science by Massey in 1992. centre, with five wards and a much Kerri Morgan is too young to have greater floor area, and a more prominent seen the documentaries when they were role in public education and awareness. first shown, and quite where her interest Why do I want to introduce you to in wildlife health and conservation Kerri Morgan? In the next while you comes from is uncertain. Her Balclutha will probably see something of her as he recent death of wildlife parents deny that it came from them. part of Massey’s new campaign. She is conservation expert Don What she does know is that at age 12 one of Massey’s informally designated TMerton will have brought she delivered a speech to her classmates ‘defining people’, the inspirational back very personal memories for many about conserving the yellow-eyed subset of intelligent, driven idealists New Zealanders. Memories from back penguin, and that at age 14 she was who are enlarging New Zealanders’ in the early 1980s of gathering after transfixed by a video documentary, its sense of possibility. Kerri will be dinner before the family TV to watch subject Don Merton’s rescue of the appearing in a series of television spots, the saga of the Chatham Island black Chatham Islands black as will fashion designer robin unfold. robin. Kate Sylvester, one of Produced by what would later These days, as an the movers behind become Natural History New Zealand avian and wildlife N e w Z e a l a n d ’s and narrated by Massey alumnus Peter veterinarian and one $300-million fashion Hayden, the documentaries told the of the founding staff export industry. story of how a small team of wildlife of the New Zealand Pe r h a p s Ke r r i experts led by Don Merton rescued a Wildlife Health Centre, Morgan’s story, like species that at one point numbered just Kerri is following in that of Don Merton, five individuals. Merton’s footsteps, will serve to inspire Somehow, though technically working to conserve others. unsophisticated, the documentaries had New Zealand’s wildlife But Kerri Morgan all the right elements. They had a cast heritage. Currently and Kate Sylvester of tiny, bright-eyed birds, each bearing three takahe and two are far from the only the name of the coloured band it wore: kiwi are convalescing at the centre. In defining people Massey has to offer, and Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and White. fact, during its eight-year existence, 25 television is far from the only available They had sexual intrigue – Mr Red takahe have been treated by the centre, screen. The web allows us to choose stole Ms Blue from Mr Yellow, and Mr which is around 10 percent of all of the the content we want rather than have it Yellow in turn stole Ms Green from Mr takahe in existence. chosen for us, and to have that content White. They had an agile sub-tribe of Kiwi are another set of patients the delivered in a range of ways. It enables men clad in beards – Merton the clean- centre knows well. Every year about every one of us to become a content shaven exception – bush shirts, walk 30 kiwi spend time in the centre. producer, not just a consumer. shorts and woolly hats bounding over Often they have fallen victim to poorly So when next you find yourself at rocks, clambering up and down cliffs, placed traps, been savaged by dogs, or your computer, tap in the address www. and crossing perilous seas to translocate hit by cars. With each year the centre engine.ac.nz. Meet Kerri Morgan and the birds from one island to another. amasses more knowledge and clinical Kate Sylvester and a collection of other There was suspense – would the experience about how to treat their remarkable individuals who are part of species survive? – and the most uplifting very special patients best. The kiwis are the engine of the new New Zealand. of endings: today there are 200-plus hand fed tiny meatballs. The takahe are No smoke. No mirrors. Real people, Chatham Island black robins and the tube fed – a procedure that Kerri says genuine stories, and an invitation to species no longer holds that least- can be performed in the space of five tell the world about the Massey staff coveted distinction of being the most minutes with little discomfort for either and alumni who have inspired you. endangered species on Earth. the feeder or the fed. The centre has Join us there. These were, even by the standards become expert in administering kiwi- Steve Maharey, of the time, understated, frill-free to-kiwi blood transfusions. Vice-Chancellor | MASSEY | May 2011 | 1 | A message from the Vice-Chancellor Our profound sympathy goes to those who are grieving for family or friends lost to the terrible events of 22 February. Our thoughts too are with those who are living with the aftermath: the destruction of houses, property, businesses and jobs; injury or illness; the loss of essential services; the disruption of normal life. Massey has confidence in the resilience of Canterbury and its people and is committed to working with Canterbury and Lincoln Universities and others in the tertiary education sector to help the province to rebuild in the testing times that lie ahead. Steve Maharey, Vice-Chancellor The Manawatu campus community observes two minutes’ silence for victims of Canterbury’s earthquake. Similar gatherings were held on the Albany and Wellington campuses. Emergency management training at work Steve Glassey, a senior tutor at the Joint Centre for Disaster the Emergency Operations Centre. “It was really good to see a Research, has returned to Massey’s Wellington campus after several lot of our students and alumni out there doing what they were days in Christchurch leading a combined universities search and trained to do.” rescue team. Glassey also worked with disaster specialists from Victoria and Glassey is a former United Nations disaster management officer Canterbury Universities, several of whom are graduates of Massey’s and is responsible for the development of many aspects of the New Diploma in Emergency Management, as well as search and rescue Zealand Urban Search and Rescue programme, including the personnel from Taiwan in the days following the 22 February quake. national disaster search dog programme, response team accreditation Glassey, who has experienced other large-scale events, including systems and national training frameworks. the 2009 tsunami in Samoa and a typhoon in Laos, says overall the He says Massey graduates helping out with disaster relief in response to the disaster has been well co-ordinated. Christchurch include employees of the police and fire service as The Joint Centre for Disaster Research will continue to work well as civil defence response volunteers and support staff within closely with Civil Defence and the Christchurch recovery operation.
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