Feature Article
2 March 2026
Professor Simon Mitchell’s abiding passion for scuba diving and dive medicine has led to him winning a major award for his work advancing dive practice worldwide.
Sustainable impact
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5 January 7551
Medical graduate Joseph Johnston will be the first doctor in his family, but followed his father's lead in many ways.
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13 March 2026
Bringing together leading Pacific scholars and practitioners, Understanding Pacific Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing Challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand was launched on 6 March.
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13 March 2026
Lawns are expensive and time-consuming to maintain, they’re sources of carbon emissions, and they make up an astonishing proportion of NZ cities.
Arts and culture
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13 March 2026
Bringing together leading Pacific scholars and practitioners, Understanding Pacific Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing Challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand was launched on 6 March.
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11 March 2026
Four University of Auckland opera graduates have been accepted into some of the world’s most prestigious music conservatoires and are fundraising to support their studies.
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6 March 2026
Dr Sarah McLean-Orsborn's new paper “An apology to my body” traces a deeply personal journey through childhood, body image and her diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS).
Education and society
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12 March 2026
Crime dramas are big business on streaming platforms globally; a new book looks at why we remain so obsessed with them.
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10 March 2026
Sharp swings in global oil prices highlight the risks of relying on fossil fuels and the urgency of scaling up renewable energy, says Associate Professor Sadiq Zarrouk.
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9 March 2026
Despite hellish conditions, educators in Gaza have continued to teach in makeshift spaces using whatever is to hand, and a new project will document their efforts.
Te ao Māori
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12 March 2026
Most houses in New Zealand have been designed with small, nuclear families in mind, and this doesn’t reflect our diverse society.
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11 March 2026
Senior Research Fellow Dr Tess Moeke Maxwell and the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group have launched new Indigenous tools and conceptualised an assisted dying framework.
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8 March 2026
In lab experiments, chemically-treated harakeke stripped "forever chemicals" from water.
Health and medicine
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13 March 2026
Bringing together leading Pacific scholars and practitioners, Understanding Pacific Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing Challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand was launched on 6 March.
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13 March 2026
Parents are better equipped to teach picky eaters how to eat healthily, thanks to a video developed by a University of Auckland researcher.
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11 March 2026
Senior Research Fellow Dr Tess Moeke Maxwell and the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group have launched new Indigenous tools and conceptualised an assisted dying framework.
Politics and law
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12 March 2026
Analysis: Insolvencies have spiked, Benjamin Liu explores whether a law change might let more businesses trade their way out of trouble.
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11 March 2026
Analysis: New Zealand's rising house insurance premiums warn of a system under strain, writes Rohan Havelock.
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10 March 2026
We live in a dense jungle of rules that can be irksome and ineffective; what we need, says the author of Stupid Rules, is more authority.
Science and technology
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13 March 2026
Bringing together leading Pacific scholars and practitioners, Understanding Pacific Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing Challenges in Aotearoa New Zealand was launched on 6 March.
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9 March 2026
A world leader in phase change materials is exploring how the technology could transform milk delivery trucks and everyday chilly bins.
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3 March 2026
The long shadow from whaling extends to basic behaviour such as breeding, new research shows.
University news
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12 March 2026
The University of Auckland ClockTower is marking its centenary.
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6 March 2026
Tertiary student numbers are up all over the country for Semester One. Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland is proving an extremely popular option.
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5 March 2026
University signs strategic MoU in Sydney to build Pacific research capacity and expand trans-Tasman opportunities for Pacific scholars, students and communities across.
The Challenge
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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.
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19 January 2026
Cutting-edge tools once reserved for astronauts and data scientists are reshaping rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy.