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Arts and culture

  • Collage of newspaper headlines, including 'Now what' and "Look out below"

    If not journalists, then who?

    1 May 2024

    Opinion: News media are locked in a military strategist’s worst nightmare, fighting a war on multiple fronts. Media analyst, researcher and former editor Gavin Ellis suggests what could save NZ journalism

  • Professor Robert Greenberg: "One of the things I wasn't shy about was making and building relationships with donors, alumni, friends and supporters.” Photo: Elise Manahan

    Robert Greenberg: ability to inspire

    29 April 2024

    After 11 years heading the Faculty of Arts, departing dean, Professor Robert Greenberg, is moving on to a new role in Australia. He reflects on his time at the University.

  • CAST co-director Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh taking part in an activity called 'A Teaspoon of Light ' in Lahaina on Maui.

    Dream team visits Maui after fire trauma

    29 April 2024

    A team from the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST) visited Maui to to work with children and their families affected by last year's fires

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Business and economy

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Education and society

  • Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific Professor Jemaima Tiatia-Siau, Pro Vice-Chancellor Equity Professor Cathy Stinear, Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori, Associate Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins, and Pro Vice-Chancellor Education., Professor Bridget Kool,.

    Why familiar spaces are so important

    2 May 2024

    Opinion: Four Pro Vice-Chancellors at the University of Auckland outline why the University's support networks for diverse groups are so vital to academic success.

  • Collage of newspaper headlines, including 'Now what' and "Look out below"

    If not journalists, then who?

    1 May 2024

    Opinion: News media are locked in a military strategist’s worst nightmare, fighting a war on multiple fronts. Media analyst, researcher and former editor Gavin Ellis suggests what could save NZ journalism

  • Girls in classroom doing work

    Does gender-segregated schooling make a difference?

    30 April 2024

    Opinion: Students at girls-only and boys-only secondary schools do better at maths and science than their peers at co-ed schools, but why, asks Tanya Evans

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Environment

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Health and medicine

  • Robin Laven with a bank of screens and camera equipment

    The tough science behind locating breast tumours

    3 May 2024

    Breast tissue has an unnerving tendency to move around in complicated ways, making it hard to pinpoint breast tumours when it comes to surgery. A team at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute wants to change that.

  • man in white coat looking holographic image of human hovering over ipad

    AI’s huge potential to improve healthcare

    29 April 2024

    Opinion: Dr Reza Shahamiri describes some of the ways AI is transforming healthcare services to be more accessible and affordable, and how it's going to get even better.

  • Mum cuddles preterm baby attached to monitor and tubes

    Waiting for mums' milk safer than thought for preterm babies

    26 April 2024

    A new study into feeding moderately premature babies finds giving them costly intravenous proteins and extra milk doesn’t get them out of hospital sooner than simply waiting until a mother’s milk has come in.

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The Challenge

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