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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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.
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25 May 2026
Debates about the cost of school lunches often skip over the many long-term benefits of free meals for students.
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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.
Arts and culture
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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.
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18 May 2026
Webinar shows increasing international recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems, essential to address global challenges - from climate change to social inequities.
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18 May 2026
Professor Ralph Buck looked back on a rich career in dance education at his inaugural lecture on 14 May.
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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20 May 2026
There’s a 'green gap' in Auckland, with people in more disadvantaged neighbourhoods travelling further afield to access green spaces.
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12 May 2026
A University of Auckland research team has made a significant discovery about a mass grave site in Bahrain by reexamining old data with new questions in mind.
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12 May 2026
A world-leading earthquake engineer has earned a PhD in civil engineering after 30 years of disaster recovery fieldwork and research.
Te ao Māori
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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.
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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.
Health and medicine
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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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22 May 2026
A global study shows obesity has risen in almost all countries globally, but in some developed countries obesity is declining, with lessons for us all.
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22 May 2026
Boyd Swinburn reviews a new study confirming that globally, obesity has increased in every single country, whether rich or poor, over the past 45 years.
Politics and law
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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.
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25 May 2026
Commentary: Begging and rough sleeping aren’t crimes of disorder. They’re symptoms of an under-resourced, under-performing security net, says Tim Welch.
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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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.
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26 February 2026
The venerable University ClockTower marks a century since its formal opening in March.