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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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
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4 September 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland’s Dr Jean Uasike M. Allen and Leah Damm are recipients of the Faculty of Art and Education’s Teaching Excellence Awards.
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4 September 2025
Several Auckland organisations have had their environmental sustainability boosted by interns from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Arts and culture
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18 August 2025
Analysis: We often say we have no choice but to drive, but as it turns out, that’s often not true. Urban form enables walking but it doesn't guarantee people will, as I-Ting Chuang explains.
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16 August 2025
Celebrating Tonga Language Week (17-23 August), Law academic Dr Suliana Mone talks about her presentation at the University of Oxford, where she honoured her ancestors by speaking lea faka-Tonga, the Tongan language.
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14 August 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland lends voice to Pacific Climate Change Roundtable underway in Apia, Samoa.
Business and economy
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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
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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.
Education and society
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4 September 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland’s Dr Jean Uasike M. Allen and Leah Damm are recipients of the Faculty of Art and Education’s Teaching Excellence Awards.
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2 September 2025
Amateur sports clubs across the country are experiencing the knock-on effects of a sharp decline in volunteer coaches.
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1 September 2025
Chinese languages and culture have a long history in New Zealand and Chinese Language Week is an invitation to find out more by giving the language a go.
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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5 September 2025
The first New Zealand study to link high-level rugby to increased risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias has been published in the journal Sports Medicine.
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1 September 2025
Finding a drug that will help people recover from brain injuries is front of mind for University of Auckland senior research fellow Dr Justin Rustenhoven.
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29 August 2025
Older Pacific Island people receive significantly less funded community support services than European New Zealanders, a problem being investigated by University of Auckland senior lecturer in psychiatry Dr Etuini Ma’u.
Politics and law
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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.
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26 August 2025
Human rights, meant to protect, are ironically being used to block Māori authority, says law expert Andrew Erueti.
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20 August 2025
Analysis: New Zealand is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s still time to show leadership, writes Treasa Dunworth.
Science and technology
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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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1 September 2025
Professor SallyAnn Harbison has seen huge advances in forensic science during her career, and continues working at the forefront of research helping link criminals with crime scenes.
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1 September 2025
A new approach to orthotics and bone scaffolds could mean devices that fit your body, lifestyle, and healing needs - designed down to the smallest detail.
University news
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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.
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29 August 2025
The Emerging Researcher Network has selected the successful proposals for the network's inaugural seed funding round.
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.