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New Executive Dean
October 3, 2016

Describing herself as “an applied scientist by training and an educationalist at heart”, Professor Natalie (Nat) Waran is EIT’s new Executive Dean – Faculty of Education, Humanities...

Workshop For Top Young Athletes
October 3, 2016

Plans for the recently-announced AUT Millennium Hawke’s Bay venture are warming up, with a workshop recently held by High Performance Sport New Zealand attracting some of the region’s most...

Health and Fitness Happiness
June 9, 2016

It didn’t take long for Gina Harris to find her passion for health, fitness and helping others who have also faced life’s challenges.“As you can imagine, the years go by, you get older and...

Old World Influences Degree Studies
May 12, 2016

Old World culture helped shape EIT degree student Ruben Parker when he was growing up in Spain, where his parents worked as missionaries.Living in Galicia in Spain’s northwest, the local way of...

Degree Studies Follow Move to Hawke’s Bay
May 12, 2016

After many years working and travelling overseas, Melanie Gregory questioned where she was heading in life.  Her soul-searching prompted her decision to settle in Hawke’s Bay where she...

Double Celebration for Computing Graduate
April 8, 2016

EIT’s recent graduation was a twofold celebration for Napier couple Cory Casbolt and Sonja Gugich.Capped on the first day with his Bachelor of Computing Systems, Cory returned to Napier’s...

Local Sports Stars Awarded Scholarships
April 8, 2016

Five talented athletes have scored prestigious scholarships that are helping them study while pursuing their sporting ambitions in Hawke’s Bay.The Sport Hawke’s Bay and EIT sport scholarship...

Hawke’s Bay Keeps Hawks’ Star
April 8, 2016

Rising basketball star Mataeus Marsh’s future as a player for the Indigo Bay Hawks has been secured, with the talented 19-year-old now studying at EIT on a newly-launched Hawks sports...

Preventing knee injuries in netball
April 7, 2016

Lee-Anne Taylor knows what it’s like to injure her knees through playing netball so when it came to following a research interest she looked for ways to help prevent other netball players from...