
Funded by the World Bank and the European Union, Massey launches a multimillion-dollar epidemiology education programme in Asia. Bryan Gibson talks to Emeritus Professor Roger Morris (pictured) and programme leader Dr Eric Neumann.
Stories from Massey University, the engine of the new New Zealand

Selling state assets is a prickly issue in New Zealand and around the world. When the National Party announced plans to sell up to 49 percent of each of its electricity companies and some other state-owned enterprises should it be re-elected in November, it sparked heated debate and some fierce opposition. College of Business Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Lawrence C Rose has researched the performance of privatised companies in Australia and New Zealand and believes partial sales are a critical to improving our economic growth rate. He speaks to Kathryn Farrow.
Massey Agricultural College – the nucleus around which the multidisciplinary university we know today formed – was created because agriculture and its products were seen as vitally important to New Zealand’s prosperity. They still are. Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey writes.
Professor Steve Stannard, head of the School of Sport and Exercise, writes about Lance Armstrong’s spectacular fall from grace and what it says about the sport he loves.
Many of the diseases we call ‘non-communicable’ in fact behave in ways that make them look transmissible. We ‘catch’ these diseases from our environment – and that is something we can change, writes Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey.