The Art of Science competition 2022
UC Arts and UC Science once again joined forces to run our Art of Science competition. Students from Year 5 to 13 were invited...
Seeing Science photography competition
The UC Science photography competition provides a chance to share insights through the power of photography. Breath-taking, bewildering, thought-provoking, illuminating…We received a ton...
5 Simple Rules for Using Academic Freedom
If you want to get an academic talking, just bring up the topic of academic freedom. We all have opinions about what it is,...
Not another COVID eviction story – contested spaces in Christchurch Central City
Since 2019, a colony of Tarāpuka|black-billed gulls – not only critically endangered, but the most endangered gulls in the world - have taken up...
Celebrating Ernest Rutherford’s 150th Birthday
Ernest Rutherford was the creator of modern atomic and nuclear physics - one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century. He started at...
The Art of Science: 2021 edition
"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The...
High school students investigate the stars with UC Science
From the 18 – 23 April, 20 high school students from around New Zealand attended the Elaine P. Snowden (EPS) camp. Over the course of the week the students took part in a range of activities from experiencing life as a UC student through to star gazing at the University of Canterbury’s Mt John Observatory.