Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ATI to be named after Sir Paul Callaghan

URL: ATI to be named after Sir Paul Callaghan

Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation

Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced that the Government’s new Advanced Technology Institute will be named after Sir Paul Callaghan. “The late Sir Paul Callaghan championed the idea that science could make New Zealand a better place,” Mr Joyce says. “He believed that science was not only about great ideas, but about getting value from those ideas through innovation and commercialisation. Those views exactly reflect the ambition of the Institute, so there can be few more appropriate names.”...