Current issue
December 2022: Matire Harwood, Chris Shaw, Farzaneh Haghighi, Andrew Patterson. Plus 'In the News', Good to Know and Arts, Culture and Books
Cover story
Matire Harwood: humility in health achievements
Dr Matire Harwood talks about the challenges and rewards of being a Māori academic and general practitioner.
Features
Learning with a future focus
Selected students will collaborate on global projects as part of a new opportunity called Future 17. Andrew Patterson explains.
Chris Shaw: cheerleader for neuroscience
Professor Chris Shaw has spent his career hunting for rogue genes and collaborating to share insights into brain diseases.
Yvette Thomas: poetry prize winner
Master of Creative Writing student Yvette Thomas has won first place in the 2022 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize.
Māramatanga: Farzaneh Haghighi
Opinion: Dr Farzaneh Haghighi is disturbed by the unprecedented violence against the Iranian people, especially women.
All these items on interactive PDF
In the News (pg 2 of PDF)
Dr João Albuquerque
Professor Bodo Lang
Dr Subhamoy Ganguly
Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda
Dr Timothy Welch
Dr Ramari Stewart
'Good to Know' stories
Liggins Lab gets green tick pg 4
Microplastics and Sam Ladewig pg 4
Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell pg 5
Esports pg 5
Te Ahi Hangarau pg 5
Arts and Culture
Students' projects in Special Collections pg 10
Poet Yvette Thomas pg 10
Opera Scenes pg 10
BOOKS
Comrade: Bill Andersen – A Communist, Working-Class Life
Cybèle Locke, Bridget Williams Books, $50
Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand
Eds Arcia Tecun, Lana Lopesi and Anisha Sankar, Bridget William Books, $40
Privacy Law in New Zealand
Nikki Chamberlain and Stephen Penk,Thomson Reuters, $189, out 23 December
Quinoa, Chemistry and Technology
Fan Zu, Academic Press, $240 (Kindle $180)
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