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Photo shows Amelia Linzey in green dress addressing audience as keynote speaker at the CRE Awards 2025.

24 October 2025

Celebrating Research Excellence Awards 2025 recognise University's top researchers, research support staff and best theses.

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  • A marble alcove in the Auckland Museum commemorating the New Zealand Wars.

    28 October 2025

    Rā Maumahara, the National Day of Commemoration for the New Zealand Wars, is marked every year on 28 October. Historian Dr Rowan Light believes it's an important chance to acknowledge and learn these histories.

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    23 October 2025

    A new study examines the risks of using AI in planning and policymaking, including how it could unintentionally favour some communities while overlooking others.

  • Kids with Einstein-like wig, standing in front of blackboard with maths solutions, including E=MC2

    21 October 2025

    Opinion: How much did the Government pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools, and how else might we have spent that money? wonders Lisa Darragh.

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