Research Portfolio

2006 Marsden Fund Results:

• $39.1m for exciting new research (Thursday 7 September 2006) A summary table of all 78 projects can be seen here.

Individual 2006 Marsden stories:

• A New Probe for Imaging Live Tissue
• New Zealand's Brand Power
• Maori Schooling in Colonial New Zealand
• Revealing the Histories of Maori Cloaks Using DNA
• Mirror Molecules and the Energy Gap
• Learning Language Using the Internet
• Homelessness in New Zealand
• Videogame Violence
• The Piano in Colonial New Zealand
• The World of the Moa
• No Sex Please, We're Fungi
• Learning Emotional Intelligence at School
• How and When was the Solar System Created?
• Violent Thinking
• Allocating Berths on Noah's Ark
• A New Window on the Universe
• Putting the MIS in Mister
• Testing the Precision of Optical Tweezers
• Stroke O'Clock - Early Morning Brain Blood Supply
• A New Threat to Native Species?

Marsden Fund awards 2005 (September 8, 2005).

Marsden 2005 press releases

• Sorting it out: computer-based classification
• Volcanic carbon dioxide
• Munching Microphages! The key to asthma?
• Listening for slow earthquakes
• The influence of medical knowledge on political thought
• Breathing easy: a new mechanism for a common problem
• The ultimate scammers: how do cuckoos get away with it?
• Understanding heart arrhythmia
• Stretching single molecules
• Seeing with miniature eyes
• Rice and the Neolithic Revolution in Southeast Asia
• Starting puberty with a kiss
• Wealth and health effects of migration
• Using computer imaging to understand clear vision
• Learning about lahar
• Using maths to study evolution
• Live or let die: importance of cell death for tumour prevention
• The search for another earth
• First encounters : the colonisation of Murihiku

Past Funding

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Newsletters

• October 2006 (PDF)
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