Sustainability news

UC students gain hands-on research experience while contributing to decades-long datasets tracking how native ecosystems recover from fire and other major disturbances.

A Canterbury engineering student is using VR tech to revamp how wheelchair users are evacuated during a fire.

UC mechatronics student Thom Stranaghan is preparing to graduate with his dream engineering role already lined up in Perth.

Offering property developers incentives could help prevent new housing from squeezing out protective greenery, a new study suggests.

A UC researcher is New Zealand’s National Champion in a global science prize, now in the running for US$1 million to scale solutions for the environmental crisis.

A UC-led study reveals how a kea without an upper beak became the dominant male in his group through a unique fighting strategy - jousting.

Designing games to teach quantum computing concepts, Bella Hill has combined creativity and technical learning through her Software Engineering studies at UC.

The ravages of climate change in Samoa are not only playing havoc with the physical environment but are robbing its people of their identity. 

UC social work graduate Kartik Kumar is looking forward to making a difference working with whānau who may be experiencing challenges.