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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10 September 2025
A seven-year PhD journey has put mātauranga Māori at the centre of geothermal decision-making in Aotearoa, giving Iwi and hapū a meaningful seat at the table.
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10 September 2025
Dr Abtin Maghsoodi is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to solve complex problems in healthcare, and further afield.
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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.
Arts and culture
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9 September 2025
The significance of chiefly headdresses in Sāmoa, Tonga and Fiji are the focus of art history graduate Talei Tu’inukuafe’s doctoral thesis.
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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.
Business and economy
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10 September 2025
Dr Abtin Maghsoodi is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to solve complex problems in healthcare, and further afield.
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10 September 2025
After 18 months of MBA study, married Canadian couple Sheldon and Rebecca Marquis celebrated graduation together.
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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
Education and society
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10 September 2025
A seven-year PhD journey has put mātauranga Māori at the centre of geothermal decision-making in Aotearoa, giving Iwi and hapū a meaningful seat at the table.
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9 September 2025
From communications, ministry, and influencing systems in local government, Christian Baledrokadroka’s graduation is a mark of service, faith, and an unwavering commitment to enact social change.
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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.
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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10 September 2025
Dr Abtin Maghsoodi is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to solve complex problems in healthcare, and further afield.
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9 September 2025
Four members of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute’s gastrointestinal research team graduate this month, tackling challenges which shape the future of healthcare.
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9 September 2025
Opinion: If we want to address health inequities, keep cigarette taxes high while ensuring less harmful nicotine products such as vaping alternatives remain affordable and accessible, says Ruth Bonita.
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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8 September 2025
Comment: For most of us, poo and pee are something flushed and forgotten, but for wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) this is where the story begins, as Mackay Price explains.
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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.
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.