Feature Article
4 September 2025
Endeavour Fund 2025 is supporting high-impact research at the University of Auckland with almost $35m in funding for long-term research.
Sustainable impact
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8 September 2025
Big ideas earned University students thousands in cash prizes at this year’s Solve It, where they teamed up with industry to test their creativity and problem-solving skills.
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8 September 2025
Tristan Tongi Petelo Ah-Sui’s graduation with a Bachelor of Arts degree marks a collective triumph for his family and wider Pacific community.
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8 September 2025
The University of Auckland is now leading the UN Academic Impact Hub for SDG 8. Staff recently joined global discussions in New York on how to advance decent work and sustainable economic growth.
Arts and culture
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8 September 2025
Leaving the military at 25, Darrien Jerard Mitchell discovered a new path in Aotearoa New Zealand that reshaped his life, faith and approach to mentoring.
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8 September 2025
Tristan Tongi Petelo Ah-Sui’s graduation with a Bachelor of Arts degree marks a collective triumph for his family and wider Pacific community.
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18 August 2025
Analysis: We often say we have no choice but to drive, but as it turns out, that’s often not true. Urban form enables walking but it doesn't guarantee people will, as I-Ting Chuang explains.
Business and economy
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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
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4 September 2025
Opinion: If we are serious about eradicating slavery, we must treat it as a humanitarian crisis and a research and governance challenge, says Charl de Villiers.
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3 September 2025
Protecting nature comes with a corporate price tag, according to a new study.
Education and society
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8 September 2025
Universities in New Zealand need to do more to ensure students from refugee backgrounds feel they belong here, according to an education graduate's PhD thesis.
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4 September 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland’s Dr Jean Uasike M. Allen and Leah Damm are recipients of the Faculty of Art and Education’s Teaching Excellence Awards.
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2 September 2025
Amateur sports clubs across the country are experiencing the knock-on effects of a sharp decline in volunteer coaches.
Environment
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4 September 2025
Several Auckland organisations have had their environmental sustainability boosted by interns from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
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3 September 2025
Protecting nature comes with a corporate price tag, according to a new study.
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28 August 2025
Opinion: A phase out of government liability for extreme weather events would be problematic and make the consequences of climate change an individual responsibility, writes Basil Sharp.
Health and medicine
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5 September 2025
The first New Zealand study to link high-level rugby to increased risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias has been published in the journal Sports Medicine.
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5 September 2025
Comment: Plans for employing and training graduate nurses might meet the health ministry’s bottom line, but they won’t keep staff and patients safe says Sue Adams.
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5 September 2025
A new research project led by Associate Professor Kelly Burrowes at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute aims to predict the long-term impact of vaping on lung function.
Politics and law
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4 September 2025
Inspired by his own lived experience of forced displacement, Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw hopes to improve agency among urban refugee communities.
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4 September 2025
Mateo Chitha, PhD candidate and recipient of the Professor Brian Coote Memorial Scholarship, is advocating for a review and reform of intercountry adoption legal and policy frameworks in his homeland of Malawi.
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27 August 2025
Opinion: New Zealand needs to be thinking about how it might respond to further threats from the US President to global stability, says Chris Ogden.
Science and technology
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8 September 2025
Big ideas earned University students thousands in cash prizes at this year’s Solve It, where they teamed up with industry to test their creativity and problem-solving skills.
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7 September 2025
Doctoral candidate Deborah Kakis says a bond with Papua New Guinea is a spiritual connection that continually draws her back home.
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5 September 2025
A gathering of scholars, kaumatua and students was held for the University’s Pūtaiao Research Symposium 2025, held in Whāngarei 4-5 September.
University news
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8 September 2025
Big ideas earned University students thousands in cash prizes at this year’s Solve It, where they teamed up with industry to test their creativity and problem-solving skills.
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4 September 2025
Endeavour Fund 2025 is supporting high-impact research at the University of Auckland with almost $35m in funding for long-term research.
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2 September 2025
Professor Dawn Freshwater welcomes the report of the Universities Advisory Group, the government’s response, and the draft Tertiary Education Strategy.
The Challenge
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24 June 2025
Psychology professor Ginny Braun on how she came to co-author the century’s third most-cited scientific paper.
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27 May 2025
Rocks collected by an expedition to Antarctica hold clues to an extinction event 183 million years ago.
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26 May 2025
In its first season new podcast Ingenious showcases research taking on society's most persistent challenges.
