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First-year School of Music student Eden Roberts hasn’t always been a singer. The young songwriter and recent X Factor finalist only started singing when, at 16, she developed a repetitive strain injury from playing the guitar.  >>

Bed sharing leads to a five-fold increase in the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for young babies even when parents don’t smoke, according to new research.  >>

Visiting Hood Fellow Professor Kathleen Tierney from University of Colorado will show how disasters originate within the social order itself.  >>

The University of Auckland is partnering with Google to provide students with the opportunity to gain the edge in a competitive graduate employment market.  >>

After being hit by a car in 2003, Tracey-Lee Dalton’s world flipped upside down ...  >>

An animation to raise awareness about the issue of child poverty in NZ, and the need for food in schools programmes, has just been released by an educational research project at The University of Auckland.  >>

Film Television and Media Studies graduate Beyond Wen has won the annual Images and Sound ‘Geoff Evans Memorial Prize for Excellence in Screen Production’.  >>

The deadly new coronavirus known as nCoV that recently emerged in the Middle East has a small chance of becoming a pandemic, according to Siouxsie Wiles an infectious diseases specialist from The University of Auckland.  >>

Vionist Shauno Isomura was awarded the top prize at the University of Auckland Graduation Gala Concerto Competition.  >>

Patients with blinding diseases such as age-related macular degeneration may not have to endure frequent eye injections in the future.  >>

Research into a new home-based therapy for stroke survivors by a University of Auckland scientist was one of six projects to gain funding in recent grants from the Health Research Council.  >>

Everyday activities are extraordinarily difficult for millions of asthma sufferers, says Chair of the Global Asthma Network (GAN) Steering Group Professor Innes Asher from The University of Auckland.  >>

The youngest graduands to step on stage at The University of Auckland’s Autumn Graduation this year are seven who completed their degrees at just 19 years of age.  >>

Outstanding paediatrician, Professor Diana Lennon, was one of three people to receive the Vice-Chancellor’s Commercialisation Medal at the University of Auckland’s Research Excellence Awards this week.  >>

The five top University of Auckland PhD theses for 2012 will be presented at the University’s ‘Celebrating Research Excellence’ function to be held today 5-7pm at the marquee on Old Government House lawn.  >>

New Zealanders are at double the risk of catching the superbug MSRA than they were six years ago and now more likely to be infected in the community than in hospitals.  >>

Playing Tetris under controlled conditions may be a cure for lazy eye in both children and adults.  >>

Future Intensive: Insights for Auckland Housing has been released by Transforming Cities.  >>

The University of Auckland’s plans to acquire the 5.2ha former Lion Breweries site have been given the go-ahead, paving the way for a new campus in Newmarket.  >>

The University of Auckland is launching three new business ready masters programmes to help ambitious graduates stand out. These programmes are suitable for new graduates as well as applicants with some professional work experience.  >>