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Autumn / Winter 2019 Message from the No.57 Vol.1 , Autumn / Winter 2019 Vice-Chancellor Tumu Whakarae Editor: Breeze Robertson Welcome to the latest edition of Chronicle, global connections and of course contribute Writers: Corrina Donaldson which captures recent highlights and to our city and region in many Breeze Robertson developments at UC’s campuses in Ilam significant ways. and in the city. Aleisha Blake In this edition we share some of our recent Frances Harrison It is very exciting to join the University at successes and latest news on a range of Hannah Seeley this time and to make my contribution to fascinating subjects, from motorsport and Margaret Agnew the wonderful work that has been done so immersive gaming, to the Prime Minister’s far to deliver UC beyond recovery and very visit to launch new Forestry scholarships and Photos: UC Photographic Services much into growth and further development. the Teece Museum exhibition, Fantastic (unless credited otherwise) Feasts. I hope you enjoy Chronicle! We begin 2019 with vibrant student numbers Artwork: Brian Carney (up 7% on last year), exciting new facilities Professor Cheryl de la Rey Produced by: UC Print for learning, internationally leading research Tumu Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor Email: communications@ and a pleasing balance sheet as well. canterbury.ac.nz I’d also like to share some good news from Address: Communications, the recent Performance-Based Research Fund Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha (PBRF) results. These results showed that UC University of Canterbury, continues to produce top quality research Private Bag 4800, and improve our overall research Christchurch. performance despite challenges resulting from the Waitaha Canterbury earthquakes. Cover: Gateway Antarctica at UC researcher UC received an overall ranking of third in Dr Regina Eisert captured a group of Antarctic Aotearoa New Zealand, and distinguished Type-C killer whales frolicking in the itself in four subject areas, ranking first in icebreaker channel in the sea ice of McMurdo ecology, evolution and behaviour; marketing Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Type-C killer and tourism; political science, international whales are a focal species for the Ross Sea relations and public policy; and public region Marine Protected Area. The TPA health. research programme at UC studies top predators including killer whales and Weddell Our mission is to contribute to society seals to support the Ross Sea MPA. Photo through knowledge by promoting a credit: Regina Eisert/@TPAonIce with support world-class learning environment known for from Antarctica NZ. attracting people with the greatest potential to make a difference. We will continue to improve and innovate the ways in which If you would like to be added to the we create and share outstanding research, Chronicle distribution list, please email [email protected]. inspire future generations, develop our 2 Contents Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern has presented Te Uru Rākau Canterbury Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr’s theory Forestry Scholarships to eight of rotating black holes has been proven correct. 5 outstanding new UC students. 7 ‘Fantastic Feasts’ is the latest exhibition from UC’s Teece Museum of Classical ‘Into the Blue’ carried the first biological experiments to be Antiquities. 15 launched and recovered from a rocket in Aotearoa New Zealand. 19 The UC Motorsport UC and Ngāi Tūāhuriri met to formalise team wowed the judges and extend their longstanding relationship. 25 in Melbourne. 21 CHRONICLE No.57, Autumn / Winter 2019 3 Enrolments increasing as UC builds for the future “UC is on a trajectory to success across all Enrolment highlights Ardern in 2018. It features specialist teaching the areas of achievement expected from and research laboratories for Physics, a world-class institution,” UC’s new Tumu • UC student enrolments are 7% ahead of Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Geography Whakarae | Vice-Chancellor Professor this time last year. and Biological Sciences. Cheryl de la Rey says. • Domestic students are up 6%. Rehua Newly released enrolment figures for 2019 • International students are up 11%. Rehua opened at the start of 2019 for Te show student numbers continue to rise • Māori students are up 9%. Rāngai Ako me te Hauora | College of at UC. • Pasifika students are up 5%. Education, Health and Human Development, Enrolment numbers have been increasing Te Pokapū Rakahinonga me ngā Hōtaka steadily year on year since 2017 across New facilities: Ngaiotanga | Centre for Entrepreneurship, domestic, international and postgraduate and the Executive Development Programme students. UC now has a total of 16,382 Ernest Rutherford building of Te Rāngai Umanga me te Ture | College of students – and this number will grow with Stage 1 of the $220 million Rutherford Business and Law. enrolments for Semester 2, summer school, Regional Science and Innovation Centre – postgraduate courses and other the Ernest Rutherford building – was opportunities on offer. opened by Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui | Be strong, be brave, be steadfast. On the Monday following the devastating events of 15 March 2019, 4000 staff and students from Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury (UC) gathered in a stand of solidarity with, and support of, our Muslim students and staff. The University is proud to be a diverse and inclusive community and our ‘Band Together’ vigil provided an opportunity for reflection for students and staff of all nationalities and cultures. This was one of many responses to support our staff, students and community at UC. Photo: Students express their grief following the Christchurch mosque attacks, at a memorial wall on the C Block lawn. 4 College of Science Enrolments increasing as Canterbury Distinguished UC builds for the future Professor’s black hole theory proven right A halo of dust and gas appears in the first image of the black hole that astronomers have captured at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light-years from Earth. It is an incredible occasion for Aotearoa New Zealand science, especially because it confirms UC Canterbury Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr’s theory of rotating black holes. Professor Kerr says he set his alarm for 1am for the reveal of the photo, which he believes is just the beginning point in gaining understanding of our universe. “The visual evidence will continue to get more and more sophisticated,” he says. In 1963, armed only with pen and paper, Professor Kerr achieved what had eluded others for nearly 50 years. He found the exact solution of Albert Einstein’s equations, describing rotating black holes. Professor Kerr’s discovery sparked a revolution in physics at a time when there was no consensus that such objects even existed; the term ‘black hole’ itself was not coined until 1967. The Royal Society of London has described his work as of particular importance to general relativistic astrophysics, and all subsequent detailed work on black holes has fundamentally depended on it. Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists and famous for his work on black holes, described Kerr’s discovery in his celebrated book, A Brief History of Time. “… Roy Kerr … found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes. These ‘Kerr’ black holes rotate at a constant rate, their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation. … In 1970 … Brandon Carter, took the first step toward proving this conjecture. Then, in 1971, I proved that any stationary rotating black hole would indeed have such an axis of symmetry. Finally, in 1973, David Robinson at Kings College, London, used Carter’s and my results to show that the conjecture had been correct: such a black hole had indeed to be the Kerr solution.” UC Canterbury Distinguished Professor Roy Kerr. CHRONICLE No.57, Autumn / Winter 2019 5 College of Engineering (Pictured from left to right) Grace Elliot, Dr Debbie Munro and Ella Guy. Engineering better health in Africa While their peers were at the beach, two four weeks completing training on medical ‘Many developing UC engineering students spent their equipment repair, working with local summer improving health in Africa. biomedical engineering students, learning nations receive Swahili and studying design. “We sent two students to Uganda this past donated hospital summer as part of a nine-week volunteer “The goal of EWH is to improve healthcare opportunity where students learnt how to around the world by using a resource that equipment, but it repair hospital equipment and then work already exists. Students gain a real-world rarely arrives with any at regional hospitals, teaching technical understanding of the health challenges staff how to repair and maintain the abroad, in addition to valuable hands-on support for training equipment going forward,” explains technical skills. They are also immersed in a personnel on how to Mechanical Engineering Senior Lecturer cultural experience where they can learn the Dr Debbie Munro. language and relate to people in an use, calibrate, clean or environment unique from their own. As the “Many developing nations receive donated world becomes more global, these kinds of repair the equipment.’ hospital equipment, but it rarely arrives with opportunities are essential for our future any support for training personnel on how to engineering leaders,” Dr Munro says. use, calibrate, clean or repair the equipment and thus ends up stored in a warehouse UC plans to develop its own EWH Global awareness is a key characteristic for ‘someday’.” programme, which will allow more of UC’s of UC’s Graduate Attributes, ensuring engineering students to participate in this our students comprehend the influence UC Mechanical Engineering students Grace opportunity, starting in summer 2020. of global conditions on their discipline Elliot and Ella Guy left for Uganda in and will be competent in engaging with mid-December as part of an Engineering global and multicultural contexts.
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