Feature Article
29 October 2025
The University of Auckland’s Hiwa Recreation Centre has received a global architecture award, placing it firmly on the world stage for excellence in sustainable recreation facilities.
Sustainable impact
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31 October 2025
International cleantech expert Lucy Chatburn will offer cutting-edge insights at the Blue and Green Technology Conference in Auckland in December.
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29 October 2025
The University of Auckland’s Hiwa Recreation Centre has received a global architecture award, placing it firmly on the world stage for excellence in sustainable recreation facilities.
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29 October 2025
New research shows many mainstream health campaigns push unrealistic messages for Pacific communities.
Arts and culture
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28 October 2025
A poetry collection about being a half-Aotearoa, half-Italian girl growing up in New Zealand has won the 2025 Phoenix prize for best Master of Creative Writing thesis.
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28 October 2025
Portable huts, hidden performance boxes, and other playful student-designed installations are on display at Urban Art Village in October.
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24 October 2025
Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens research journey has been shaped by exploring her cultural connections including her Tokelau ancestry.
Business and economy
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30 October 2025
Two researchers have won national recognition for showing how fresh thinking can make work and law more people centred.
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30 October 2025
As sponsors of the inaugural Auckland Startup Week, the University and UniServices celebrated the ventures and partnerships shaping the city’s innovation future.
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29 October 2025
New research shows many mainstream health campaigns push unrealistic messages for Pacific communities.
Education and society
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21 November 2029
Opinion: That many of the countries that established the UN Refugee Convention are now actively seeking ways to subvert or abandon their commitments is a political, moral and ethical failure, writes Ritesh Shah on World Refugee Day
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30 October 2025
Literacy expert Professor Rebecca Jesson looks back on some of the many useful things she's learned in a career devoted to changing education for the better.
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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.
Te ao Māori
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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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24 October 2025
Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens research journey has been shaped by exploring her cultural connections including her Tokelau ancestry.
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24 October 2025
A shadow report for the UN warns racial discrimination is worsening.
Health and medicine
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31 October 2025
'Diabetes patients need a coach', says a pharmacist who saw impressive results from participating in a trial run by the University of Auckland research with Te Whatu Ora.
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29 October 2025
Cycling or walking to work reduces the risk of several cancers, according to new research out of Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
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28 October 2025
University of Auckland Professor Bronwen Connor is developing transplants that might grow new brain cells for people with Huntington’s Disease.
Politics and law
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29 October 2025
With class actions making headlines, researchers are asking whether they deliver fair compensation and deter repeat offending.
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25 October 2025
Emma Fisi’ilose Guillain is challenging the silence around family violence in Vanuatu; seeking to create pathways for justice and healing within affected communities.
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24 October 2025
Opinion: The 'primitive doctrine that might is right' is re-emerging, and people who value the rule of law, democracy and human rights must be prepared to resist it, says Gehan Gunasekara.
Science and technology
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31 October 2025
International cleantech expert Lucy Chatburn will offer cutting-edge insights at the Blue and Green Technology Conference in Auckland in December.
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31 October 2025
Yes, seriously. The aim was to assess the threat from an invasive species.
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23 October 2025
Opinion: Lauren Baal considers what we have and haven't learned from past mistakes regarding the containment of new gene technologies.
University news
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30 October 2025
As sponsors of the inaugural Auckland Startup Week, the University and UniServices celebrated the ventures and partnerships shaping the city’s innovation future.
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30 October 2025
Congratulations to our new professors. Each promotion acknowledges the expertise, leadership and sustained contribution of these staff to the University’s success.
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29 October 2025
The University of Auckland’s Hiwa Recreation Centre has received a global architecture award, placing it firmly on the world stage for excellence in sustainable recreation facilities.
The Challenge
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21 October 2025
Sir Richard Faull, founder of the Centre for Brain Research is one of the country's most eminent scientists. On his 80th year, we celebrate his journey to explore the human brain.
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9 October 2025
The real story behind scientific 'breakthroughs' is strong fundamental research, hard slog and a little bit of serendipity.
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6 October 2025
As AI tools like MidJourney churn out striking art, the core question remains: when the spark comes from prompts and past data, is it creation - or just clever theft?
