Feature Article

25 September 2025
Championing Māori health equity and cultural safety in surgery has seen Dr Jamie-Lee Rahiri named 2025 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow.
Sustainable impact
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2 October 2025
The University’s first-ever Repair Café is bringing students and staff together to give broken items a new lease on life, while promoting a culture of repair and reuse
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30 September 2025
The devastation Cyclone Gabrielle brought to Auckland’s industrial areas has spurred a $8.9 million research project aimed at making the city’s economic hubs more resilient to future climate disasters.
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29 September 2025
Research suggests climate leadership is falling short, with current adaptation efforts focused on property and cost-cutting rather than protecting communities.
Arts and culture
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2 October 2025
Bernard Henare sits at a long table below a portrait of his father in the James Henare Research Centre at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
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1 October 2025
University art collection adviser Madeleine Gifford introduces a recent acquisition.
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24 September 2025
Many writers dream of a chunk of time and a peaceful place to make progress on a pet project, which is the aim of a new University of Auckland writers’ residency.
Business and economy
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2 October 2025
Analysis: Researchers say interactive oral assessments are proving to be one of the most effective and authentic ways to see what students really know in the age of AI.
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1 October 2025
Language barriers and low digital literacy are leaving vulnerable groups exposed to online harms, and without local research, New Zealand is ill-equipped to respond.
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1 October 2025
During his inaugural professorial lecture, Mike Lee revealed rare footage of his pre-academia foray into a 'professional sport'.
Education and society
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2 October 2025
Opinion: Students using AI tools from the outset are not gaining a fundamental understanding of the subject they are studying, says Alex Sims and Dulani Jayasuriya.
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2 October 2025
Analysis: Researchers say interactive oral assessments are proving to be one of the most effective and authentic ways to see what students really know in the age of AI.
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30 September 2025
Opinion: Dr Ritesh Shah offers an alternative vision to the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, which he believes hasn't been a viable option for some time.
Te ao Māori
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2 October 2025
Bernard Henare sits at a long table below a portrait of his father in the James Henare Research Centre at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
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1 October 2025
Dr Jamie-Lee Rahiri’s work improving surgical care for Māori has been recognised with a prestigious prize for women in science.
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1 October 2025
University art collection adviser Madeleine Gifford introduces a recent acquisition.
Health and medicine
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2 October 2025
Scientists have reversed diabetic heart failure with a genetic therapy in mice and a miniature human hearts made from stem cells.
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1 October 2025
Dr Jamie-Lee Rahiri’s work improving surgical care for Māori has been recognised with a prestigious prize for women in science.
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1 October 2025
Dr Hayley Reynolds and Catherine Davies are bonded through their personal and professional experiences with the incurable condition.
Politics and law
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1 October 2025
Doctors sometimes refer patients to providers in which they have a financial stake — a practice known as ‘self-referral’. While widely studied in the US, researchers are seeking local views.
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30 September 2025
Opinion: Dr Ritesh Shah offers an alternative vision to the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, which he believes hasn't been a viable option for some time.
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17 September 2025
Opinion: If the Government isn’t proactive in implementing its AI policy it will be vulnerable to being built on corporate interests and unnecessary deregulation, says Joshua Yuvaraj.
Science and technology
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30 September 2025
PhD candidate Heidi Robinson fuses her love of craft with the lab.
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26 September 2025
In a global study, New Zealand creatures used camouflage rather than bright warning colours to deter predators.
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25 September 2025
Opinion: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so Kevin Trenberth wonders why disinformation is still so rife?
University news
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18 September 2025
Auckland Bioengineering Institute researchers will work with Oden Institute, University of Texas, to develop physics-informed AI computational modelling.
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16 September 2025
The University has earned international recognition for its leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship.
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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.
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.