2009 Funding Round Press Release

• Preventing pregnancy-induced obesity (MS Word doc, 28 kB)
  Dr Colin Brown, Department of Physiology, University of Otago
   
• Corals in a changing world (MS Word doc, 27 kB)
  Dr Simon Davy, Centre for Marine Environmental & Economic Research, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
   
  
• Can females control male reproductive success? (MS Word doc, 23 kB)
  Professor Neil Gemmell, Centre for Reproduction and Genomics, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago
   
• Verbal reminders: a key to memory (MS Word doc, 27 kB)
  Professor Harlene Hayne, Psychology Department, University of Otago
   
• Does complex tool manufacture require a complex brain? (MS Word doc, 28 kB)
  Dr Gavin Hunt, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland
   
• Moa egg shell DNA helps document early environmental change (MS Word doc, 23 kB)
  Mr Chris Jacomb, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago
   
• Marsden Fast-Start grant for meningitis research (MS Word doc, 23 kB)
  Dr Joanna MacKichan, Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), Kenepuru, Porirua
   
• A bee-line into memory mechanisms (MS Word doc, 27 kB)
  Professor Alison Mercer, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
   
• War captives in Māori society (MS Word doc, 30 kB)
  Dr Hazel Petrie, Department of History, University of Auckland
   
• Ruamoko’s rumbles: What happens before a volcano erupts? (MS Word doc, 29 kB)
  Professor Martha Savage, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
   
• Unravelling the web of life (MS Word doc, 26 kB)
  Dr James Degnan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury
   
• Apakura: the Māori way of death (MS Word doc, 26 kB)
  Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, School of Māori and Pacific
   
• Teaching an old brain new tricks (MS Word doc, 27 kB)
  Dr Ben Thompson, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland
   
• Throwing light onto dark matter (MS Word doc, 25 kB)
  Dr Ishwaree Neupane, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury
   
• Quantum physics meets Einstein’s theory of relativity (MS Word doc, 29 kB)
  Professor Matt Visser, School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Operations Research, Victoria University of Wellington
   
• Turning to iron - new tack for IRL superconducting group (MS Word doc, 30 kB)
  Dr Grant Williams, Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt