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Tough to be a boy (8 Feb)
A research team based at the University of Canterbury has found that adult males were rare in the moa world.

Prestigious Fellowship for Spider Researcher (12 Jan) Dr Fiona Cross has been recognised as being among New Zealand’s brightest young scientists with the awarding of Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST).

Jason Tylianakis talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month's New Hot Paper in the field of Environment/Ecology. (8 Jan 2010)

Article Title: Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems
Authors: Tylianakis, JM;Didham, RK;Bascompte, J;Wardle, DA
Journal: ECOL LETT, Volume: 1, Issue: 12, Page: 1351-1363, Year: DEC 2008

BIC PhD scholarships and postdocs (18 Dec) A range of awards are available for 2010, for more information contact Prof Juliet Gerrard

Multi-million dollar boost for research centre (15 Dec) The Biomolecular Interaction Centre (BIC) has been selected to receive multi-million dollar, multi-year investment by the university in a bid to raise its international profile and allow it to become widely known as a world-class institution.

PhD scholarship for research on fish physiology (14 Dec) We invite applications for a fully-funded Ph.D. programme investigating the uptake and distribution of compounds within the tissues of fish.  This research is sponsored by The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. There is a $28,000 p.a. stipend for the student plus fees payment of $5000. Applications to Associate Professor Malcolm Forster: (malcolm.forster@canterbury.ac.nz)

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