Staffing updates
- Congratulations to Zaria on the arrival of new baby Asher, born on Queen’s Birthday weekend (4 June). His older brother Maxwell is “pretty chuffed” with his new baby brother.
- Welcome to Roxanne and Harpreet, who will join Renita Martis in standing in for Zaria while she is on parental leave.
- Farewell to Evellen who has provided fantastic support as GSC for the last two years; her energy, enthusiasm, generous support of colleagues, and ready laugh will be missed. We wish Evellen all the best with her new EA role based at the ClockTower.
- Welcome Rodolfo as temporary GSC while we recruit into the role longer term.
- The management team refresh is now complete and all members are in post; for details please see this story.
Achievements and highlights
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Vision Bus Aotearoa launches
The Vision Bus Aotearoa (pictured above) was officially launched by Dame Cindy and Vice-Chancellor Dawn Freshwater on Friday 10 June. Read more about the launch here and the goals and funders of the Vision Bus project here.
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Butland Award
Dr Phil Turnbull has been successfully nominated for the Butland Award for Innovation and Teaching, for his work on the Virtual Patient computer-based online teaching and learning optometric patient simulation. The award will be presented at a ceremony in September in the Atrium. Congratulations Phil on the well-deserved recognition of your creative and innovative work