Feature Article
17 August 2026
In his second pōwhiri as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nic Smith says one of the University’s most important relationships is with mana whenua, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
Sustainable impact
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20 August 2026
Guidance developed by researchers and industry experts is helping strengthen food safety practices, protect vulnerable infants and support New Zealand's reputation for premium dairy exports.
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20 August 2026
EY Māori and Pacific Business Student of the Year Awards celebrate excellence.
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20 August 2026
An alumni event celebrated one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest running Māori business programmes.
Arts and culture
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19 August 2026
Award winner educator Dr Sarah McLean-Orsborn has built a reputation for creating learning spaces where students feel seen, valued and inspired.
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18 August 2026
The University farewells notable New Zealand poet and long-time English tutor Riemke Ensing with a tribute from her biographer Deborah Shepard.
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18 August 2026
Six projects by University of Auckland architecture and design staff have been shortlisted for the NZIA National Awards, placing them alongside some of New Zealand’s most significant new buildings.
Business and economy
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20 August 2026
Opinion: New Zealand wants to be an AI hub but risks being more of a concierge service, supplying land, water and power to host big data services but receiving little economic benefit, writes PhD student Angus Dowell.
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20 August 2026
EY Māori and Pacific Business Student of the Year Awards celebrate excellence.
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20 August 2026
An alumni event celebrated one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest running Māori business programmes.
Education and society
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13 August 2026
Analysis: Universities can help students thrive in an AI-shaped workforce by combining deep subject expertise with broader skills, say Hanoku Bathula and Patrick Dodd.
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5 August 2026
Comment: Until policymakers confront the elephant, no amount of “rebalancing” will fix the room when it comes to early childhood education, says Kiri Gould.
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3 August 2026
Analysis: Overlapping parental leave is the right idea – we just need more fathers to take it, writes Joanne Mutter.
Te ao Māori
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20 August 2026
EY Māori and Pacific Business Student of the Year Awards celebrate excellence.
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20 August 2026
An alumni event celebrated one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest running Māori business programmes.
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19 August 2026
It was a numbers game as the Auckland Maths Challenge came to Hiwa allowing school students to compete and experience campus life.
Health and medicine
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20 August 2026
Guidance developed by researchers and industry experts is helping strengthen food safety practices, protect vulnerable infants and support New Zealand's reputation for premium dairy exports.
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19 August 2026
University of Auckland doctoral candidate Nikki Singh will take pioneering research into autoimmune disease, identity and lived experience to Stanford University after receiving a prestigious Fulbright award.
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18 August 2026
Neuroscience researchers at the University of Auckland have been awarded funding to explore innovative responses to a broad range of neurological conditions.
Politics and law
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19 August 2026
Commentary: Anthropic paid $1.5b over pirated books, yet US courts ruled book scanning is ‘fair use’. Alex Sims considers what this means for NZ authors.
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10 August 2026
Marriage equality in Australia might finally be legal but now finds itself at the heart of global culture-war debates targeting minorities, a new book finds.
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10 August 2026
Understanding how Big Tech became so powerful starts with understanding corporations themselves, says Professor Susan Watson in a new paper.
Science and technology
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21 August 2026
Students from girls-only schools were overrepresented among female students studying Engineering and Computer Science at university.
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20 August 2026
Opinion: New Zealand wants to be an AI hub but risks being more of a concierge service, supplying land, water and power to host big data services but receiving little economic benefit, writes PhD student Angus Dowell.
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19 August 2026
Research calling on young people with life-limiting health conditions to better understand navigating serious illness during adolescence and early adulthood.
University news
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17 August 2026
In his second pōwhiri as Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nic Smith says one of the University’s most important relationships is with mana whenua, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
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10 August 2026
The convening panels for each of the University's Signature Research Areas have been appointed.
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7 August 2026
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland and The Pacific Community (SPC) have formalised a new partnership.
The Challenge
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13 August 2026
Inside the quest for the next breakthrough drug to treat diseases of the brain.
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13 July 2026
Te Pūnaha Ātea-1, (TPA-1) a satellite home-grown in New Zealand launched in June last year. On its 515km high orbit it has been capturing fresh images of our planet.
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28 May 2026
The re-dedication of the Sir James Henare Research Centre recalls the layers of history and renews aspirations for the future.