Massey University is a university based in New Zealand,with significant campuses in Auckland,Palmerston North,and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 27,533 students,18,358 of whom study either partly or fully by distance. Research is undertaken on all three campuses and people from over 130 countries study at the university. Data from the 2017 annual report shows that 42% of the domestic students are based in Auckland,38% in Palmerston North and 20% in Wellington.
Charles Edward Miller Pearce was a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. At the time of his death on 8 June 2012 he was the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
Sir Mason Harold Durie is a New Zealand professor of Māori Studies and research academic at Massey University. He is known for his contributions to Māori health. In 2020,he was appointed to the Order of New Zealand,the highest honour in New Zealand's royal honours system.
Stuart Norman McCutcheon was a New Zealand university administrator. Until March 2020 he was vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland,New Zealand,at which point he was the longest-serving current vice-chancellor in New Zealand,having served three five-year terms. He was previously vice-chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington,and deputy vice-chancellor and assistant vice-chancellor (research) at Massey University.
Sir George Alexander Currie was an agricultural scientist,university professor and administrator. He was born in Grange,Banffshire,Scotland on 13 August 1896.
Alec Lazenby is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge,University of New England,University of Tasmania,the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazenby served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England from 1970 to 1976,and the University of Tasmania from 1982 to 1990.
Norman Alan Burges CBE,was an Australian botanist who became the first vice-chancellor of the New University of Ulster in Coleraine,Northern Ireland.
Silas Stanislaus Bernard Lwakabamba or simply SilasLwakabamba,is a Tanzanian engineer,academic and politician. Since May 2021,he has been serving as the Regional Managing Director of Coventry University African Hub,based in Kigali,Rwanda. Lwakabamba holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Leeds in England since 1975. Since 1997,he served as the founding Rector of Rwanda’s Kigali Institute of Science and Technology. In 2006,he was appointed Rector of National University of Rwanda until 2013. Lwakabamba served as Rwanda's Minister of Infrastructure between February 2013 and July 2014,he also served as Rwanda's Minister of Education since July 2014 until June 2015.
University of Rwanda is a public collegiate,multi campus university based in Kigali,Rwanda. Formed in 2013 through the merger of previously independent education institutions,the University of Rwanda is the largest education institution in Rwanda. The University of Rwanda is ranked number one in the country by the Higher Education Council,an organ established by the Government of Rwanda.
Clifford Douglas Blake AO is an Australian agriculturalist and educationalist who became first Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University,from 1990 through to 2001 and then after his retirement from CSU in July 2001,he took up an interim Vice-Chancellor position at the University of Adelaide from August 2001.
Sir Thomas Neil Morris Waters was a New Zealand inorganic chemist and academic administrator who served as vice-chancellor of Massey University from 1983 to 1995. He is noted for establishing the university's Albany campus near Auckland in 1993.
Christopher Matthew Kirk is a New Zealand former university administrator and top-level cricketer. He played for Canterbury and Otago between the 1969–70 and 1978–79 seasons,playing in 25 first-class and six List A matches. He played Chapple Cup and Hawke Cup cricket for Taranaki from 1979–80 until 1984–85.
Brian Peter John Molloy was a New Zealand plant ecologist,conservationist,and rugby union player.
Elsie Gertrude "Paddy" Bassett was a New Zealand agricultural scientist. She graduated from Massey Agricultural College in 1941,becoming the first woman graduate from that institution. Bassett was also one of the first two women students accepted into Canterbury Agricultural College.
Isabella Caroline McMillen,is an Australian medical and health academic and was Chief Scientist of South Australia from October 2018 to August 2023. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences,a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and a Bragg Member of the Royal Institution of Australia. She is a Director of Compass Housing Services Co Ltd,the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute,the Australian Science Media Centre and a member of the Council of the University of South Australia.
Laetitia Nyinawamwiza is a Rwandan academic and politician. She has held several academic administrative positions,and since 2019 has served as a member of the Senate of Rwanda,representing the Northern Province.
Murray John Hill was a New Zealand seed technologist. He was the inaugural director of the Seed Technology Centre at Massey University between 1976 and 1997,and established the New Zealand Seed Technology Institute at Lincoln University in 1998.
Morva Olwyn Croxson is a New Zealand music therapist. She was the first woman to serve as chancellor of Massey University.
