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News and views from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland

Feature Article

Cover image of Journey to a 4th Generation University: from Aotearoa, for the world.

16 June 2026

A report sets out the progress the University of Auckland has made on the journey to become a 4th Generation university.

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Science and technology

  • nz space scholarship recipients

    26 June 2026

    Two engineering students have been awarded a prestigious New Zealand Space Scholarship that will see them interning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for three months.

  • Image of Sir Collin Tukuitonga

    25 June 2026

    Pacific leaders, researchers and communities gathered at Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa's Research Symposium 2026 to advance Pacific-led research, share solutions and strengthen health outcomes across Aotearoa and the Pacific.

  • Omar and his family with the Clocktower in the background

    25 June 2026

    As a student in the 1970s, Omar Garcia imagined computers that could think like HAL 9000 in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Decades later, he's researching AI, but for the benefit, not the destruction, of mankind.

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The Challenge

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