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News and views from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland

Feature Article

Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater with the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, the Hon Paul Goldsmith.

5 December 2025

One of the city’s most significant heritage buildings, Old Choral Hall, has been officially reopened on the University's City Campus following an extensive restoration and refurbishment.

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Health and medicine

  • Professor Terryann Clark.

    11 December 2025

    A University of Auckland study finds 12 percent of secondary school students have had unwanted sexual experiences.

  • Grace Su in graduation garb and carrying a bunch of flowers.

    10 December 2025

    Grace Su is moving to Tauranga after graduation to work in an optometry clinic where she worked while participating in Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland's Rural Health Immersion Programme.

  • Zanetta Toomata in her doctoral graduation garb.

    10 December 2025

    Doctoral graduate Zanetta Toomata was amazed at high school in Hawaii to learn that something as tiny as DNA could hold the blueprint for life, and is now dedicated to genetics.

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