Feature Article
22 August 2019
Tired of seeing its children targeted by fast food marketing and suffering the effects of a poor diet, an Auckland community is is gearing up to make its food environment healthier.
Giving
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21 August 2019
Twenty new libraries brimming with books donated by the University of Auckland community will soon open in Tonga.
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21 August 2019
PhD student Bilal Nasier, who fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was four-years-old, is one of 750 students with a refugee background at the University of Auckland who will be celebrated during the University's first ever Refugee Week next week.
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5 August 2019
The University of Auckland's Formula SAE team recently opened its doors to its alumni and sponsors.
Arts and culture
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21 August 2019
“This was probably the most confrontational work in my 34-year career,” says Associate Professor Karen Grylls, on conducting the recent New Zealand premier of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion.
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21 August 2019
PhD student Bilal Nasier, who fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was four-years-old, is one of 750 students with a refugee background at the University of Auckland who will be celebrated during the University's first ever Refugee Week next week.
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16 August 2019
Understanding how technology applies to music is an emerging area of both research and teaching at the School of Music, and being developed by lecturer and coordinator of Music Technology, Dr Fabio Morreale, who joined the school this year.
Business and economy
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22 August 2019
Opinion: Doctoral candidate Nicholas Borroz discusses how space is poised to be big business
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21 August 2019
Twenty new libraries brimming with books donated by the University of Auckland community will soon open in Tonga.
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15 August 2019
University of Auckland alumnus and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mitchell Pham, has been honoured in Ho Chi Minh City for his contribution to entrepreneurial leadership and international impact in the city's booming hi-tech industry.
Education and society
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23 August 2019
An interactive app which combines early Māori and Pākehā history with learning te reo Māori was launched at the University of Auckland this week.
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22 August 2019
Opinion: A group is currently holding seminars around NZ based on misinformation about vaccines. Dr Helen Petousis-Harris fact checks some of their claims.
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22 August 2019
Tired of seeing its children targeted by fast food marketing and suffering the effects of a poor diet, an Auckland community is is gearing up to make its food environment healthier.
Environment and sustainability
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19 August 2019
Universities have a crucial part to play in making the world a more inclusive and sustainable place, says the Rt Hon. Helen Clark.
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12 August 2019
Twenty-two undergraduate students from Ocean College, Zhejiang University will be welcomed to the University of Auckland this week.
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6 August 2019
Opinion: Anaesthetic gas released each year by just one NZ hospital has the same carbon footprint as 500 Auckland and London return flights. Dr Saeid Baroutian explains.
Health and medicine
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23 August 2019
A University of Auckland-led study has shown for the first time that diabetes drug metformin halves the risk of death in people with the second most common form of adult-onset diabetes.
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23 August 2019
Newborns are missing out on potentially life-saving screening for a heart defect due to unequal access to the test across district health boards and population groups, a new study reveals.
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22 August 2019
Opinion: A group is currently holding seminars around NZ based on misinformation about vaccines. Dr Helen Petousis-Harris fact checks some of their claims.
Politics and law
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22 August 2019
Law student Kahukiwi Piripi, of Te Rarawa descent, has won the Gina Rudland Prize for Māori Mooting.
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14 August 2019
Opinion: Dr Edward Willis calls on the Government to stop complicity in unconstitutional racist legislation and 'in this moment' lift the ban on prisoner voting.
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13 August 2019
Opinion: NZ could take time to evaluate the cannabis issue. Instead, we will be forced to make a choice on legalisation and hope we get it right, writes Grant Christie.
Science and technology
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22 August 2019
It’s a brutal way to learn but if there is any good to come out of the earthquakes that devastated parts of New Zealand over the last decade, a lot more is now known about the ground beneath our feet.
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22 August 2019
Opinion: Doctoral candidate Nicholas Borroz discusses how space is poised to be big business
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21 August 2019
Opinion: Should we worry about robots taking over? Not anytime soon, says Dr Craig Sutherland who talks about the impact of robots for Raising the Bar on 27 August.
University news
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21 August 2019
Twenty new libraries brimming with books donated by the University of Auckland community will soon open in Tonga.
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21 August 2019
“This was probably the most confrontational work in my 34-year career,” says Associate Professor Karen Grylls, on conducting the recent New Zealand premier of David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion.
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21 August 2019
PhD student Bilal Nasier, who fled war-torn Afghanistan when he was four-years-old, is one of 750 students with a refugee background at the University of Auckland who will be celebrated during the University's first ever Refugee Week next week.