Feature Article
25 May 2026
Josephine Davis will take over as Head of School of Nursing at the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, marking a historic moment for Māori nursing leadership.
Sustainable impact
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29 May 2026
Ingenio: As many Pacific countries face urgent health and climate-change challenges, and powerful states exert shifting influences in the region, Owen Poland asks what role can and should we be playing in the Pacific today.
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27 May 2026
People living in deprived neighbourhoods have a significantly higher risk of premature ‘deaths of despair,' according to an international study using NZ data.
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26 May 2026
CIVIC STAGE, an international project to get young people involved in democracy in creative ways, will have significant University of Auckland participation.
Arts and culture
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29 May 2026
Elam doctoral student Brittany Walker Smith is the inaugural winner of the Collin Post Sculpture Award and Longveld Plinth Award.
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28 May 2026
Celebrating Sāmoa Language Week, 31 May – 6 June. The journey of gagana Sāmoa is a lifelong one says Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific, Fonoiā Professor Sipaea Jemaima Tiatia Siau.
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19 May 2026
Ngāti Porou carver Fred Harrison has just restored carvings he helped his late father, tohunga whakairo Dr Pakāriki Harrison, create over 30 years ago.
Business and economy
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26 May 2026
Analysis: New Zealand needs stronger mechanisms to convert early promise into investable firms, says Rod McNaughton.
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26 May 2026
Zolzaya Battsogt lost both her daughter and supervisor during her doctoral studies. This May, she graduated in their honour.
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25 May 2026
Opinion: Auckland needs more authority to make decisions and fewer 'stupid rules' tying hands, writes Natasha Hamilton-Hart.
Education and society
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28 May 2026
Comment: Education is complicated, and we should be wary of stories that suggest it is otherwise like the one the kids failing at maths, says Lisa Darragh.
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28 May 2026
Celebrating Sāmoa Language Week, 31 May – 6 June. The journey of gagana Sāmoa is a lifelong one says Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific, Fonoiā Professor Sipaea Jemaima Tiatia Siau.
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27 May 2026
People living in deprived neighbourhoods have a significantly higher risk of premature ‘deaths of despair,' according to an international study using NZ data.
Te ao Māori
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28 May 2026
The re-dedication of the Sir James Henare Research Centre recalls the layers of history and renews aspirations for the future.
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25 May 2026
Josephine Davis will take over as Head of School of Nursing at the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, marking a historic moment for Māori nursing leadership.
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21 May 2026
Engineering research into mīmiro shows tūpuna Māori knowledge of construction was both sophisticated and seismically resilient.
Health and medicine
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29 May 2026
University of Auckland study finds that despite clear English language limitations, many Asian patients were not provided with an interpreter ahead of surgery.
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29 May 2026
Commentary: People rarely die from MS but often live with it for many decades. That should push us to set the bar higher than disease control alone, and to help people live as fully as possible says Hanneke Hulst.
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25 May 2026
Josephine Davis will take over as Head of School of Nursing at the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, marking a historic moment for Māori nursing leadership.
Politics and law
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29 May 2026
With the can kicked down the road in terms of a referendum at the 2026 general election on extending our term to four years, the question remains: should we extend our parliamentary term beyond three years?
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26 May 2026
Zolzaya Battsogt lost both her daughter and supervisor during her doctoral studies. This May, she graduated in their honour.
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25 May 2026
Analysis: Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered.
Science and technology
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27 May 2026
An active fault along the Hunua Ranges has been identified in research led by the University of Auckland.
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25 May 2026
Opinion: The world's ocean monitoring system is under threat when most needed, writes Dr Kevin Trenberth.
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18 May 2026
A major overhaul of the University of Auckland’s health programmes expands study options, creates flexibility and prepares graduates for the future health workforce.
University news
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25 May 2026
Josephine Davis will take over as Head of School of Nursing at the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, marking a historic moment for Māori nursing leadership.
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20 May 2026
A dawn ceremony on 19 May welcomed restored whakairo back to the James Henare Research Centre, reaffirming the centre’s place as a whare of mātauranga Māori.
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19 May 2026
Ngāti Porou carver Fred Harrison has just restored carvings he helped his late father, tohunga whakairo Dr Pakāriki Harrison, create over 30 years ago.
The Challenge
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28 May 2026
The re-dedication of the Sir James Henare Research Centre recalls the layers of history and renews aspirations for the future.
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19 May 2026
The albatross population of Antipodes Island in the Southern Seas is critically endangered. With more data researchers hope to bring their numbers back.
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2 March 2026
Piecing together how birds and humans interacted in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia hundreds of years ago is the focus of a revealing new study.