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Mātauranga Māori the highlight for all
Mātai News Mātauranga Māori the highlight for all The Gisborne Herald, 12 February 2023 Collaborative learning: The group of summer interns squeeze into the Mātai Research Institute offices on Childers Road. Work has begun on a new centre for the institute, up the road on the former St Mary’s Catholic Primary School site. Mātai Research Institute, a not-for-profit centre based…
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Mātai story told by international film-maker
Mātai News Mātai story told by international film-maker The Gisborne Herald, 29 December 2022 Former military man and now film-maker and correspondent Mikey Kay in Gisborne to film a piece on Mātai Research Institute for the GE Healthcare series ‘On the Frontlines’. “There’s amazing work happening ay Mātai”, he said. International film-maker and journalist Mikey Kay says it has been…
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Meet and greet
Mātai News Meet and greet Turanga FM, 2 February 2023 Ariana Brown and Jackson Clarke, two of 16 Mātai interns talk to Turanga FM about their background studies, what Mātai has to offer, and how they are impacting their community as a whole. Hear the full interview below.
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High-flying interns
Mātai News High-flying interns The Gisborne Herald, 11 December 2022 Introducing the 16 local students taking part in a 10-week summer internship at Mātai Research Institute. Image: Liam Clayton The two programmes provide students with the opportunity to be involved with cutting-edge projects, working alongside a team of expert scientists, clinicians, research staff, PhD students, and iwi health providers. …
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Multi-million dollar boost
Mātai News Multi-million dollar boost for Mātai, Kiwi Lumber The Gisborne Herald, 9 December 2022 Mātai Research Institute is to receive a $1.5 million grant and $1.5 million loan from the Government’s Regional Strategic Partnership Fund. Gisborne businesses received a multimillion-dollar funding boost from the Government yesterday. Regional Economic Minister Stuart Nash was in Gisborne to make the announcement, which…
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Cutting-edge brain technology prize
Mātai News Cutting-edge brain technology takes out top Velocity prize University of Auckland, 1 November 2022 Read original article here A tool to improve precision and safety during neurosurgery is shining a new light on the old adage, measure twice and cut once. Neurofanos, a high-tech image-guided tool is the brainchild of a multidisciplinary team who took the spotlight as…
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Brain and heart scientists pull on gumboots
Mātai News Brain and heart scientists pull on gumboots for tour University of Auckland, 1 November 2022 Read original article here Staff and students from the Centre for Brain Research and Manaaki Manawa connected with the people of Tairāwhiti in October. Some of the University’s most eminent scientists donned gumboots in Tairāwhiti to attend the Poverty Bay A&P Show and…
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Funding lift for ADHD research
Mātai News Funding lift for ADHD research The Gisborne Herald, 8 November 2022 A project in Gisborne to create an atlas of the ADHD brain has won an $837,000 funding boost. The Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fund money will help Auckland Bioengineering Institute Associate Professor Justin Fernandez to pursue research using ultra-fast functional MRI scans to reveal differences in…
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