Coronavirus
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12 January 2021
In the Infection and Immunity Laboratory at the University of Auckland, a team led by Nikki Moreland has built a Covid-19 time machine.
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23 December 2020
Opinion: With vaccines on the way, next year may see the pandemic beaten back. But what do these vaccines entail? And who gets them first? Helen Petousis-Harris explains.
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22 December 2020
Opinion: The speed at which Sydney’s new Covid-19 outbreak has spread should be a lesson in the dangers of complacency, says Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
Arts and culture
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8 December 2020
A love of theatre and enormous respect for their teachers at the University inspired a recent gift to Drama from Sydney-based alumni Ian Narev and Frances Allan.
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2 December 2020
A writer of flash fiction, extremely short stories, has won the University of Auckland’s $5000 Sir James Wallace Creative Writing Prize for the first time.
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1 December 2020
With New Zealand being such a desirable destination for filming series and film, Reunion director Jake Mahaffy says it's a great time to study filmmaking.
Business and economy
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12 January 2021
Opinion: To build a more prosperous society we must invest in our top talent, including advanced level tertiary education, writes Professor Dawn Freshwater.
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17 December 2020
Opinion: Manqing Cheng explains the political and economic implications to New Zealand of signing up to the RCEP, the world’s largest free trade zone.
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8 December 2020
A social enterprise developed by Business School students will benefit more than 2,000 Manurewa High School students starting in 2021.
Education and society
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14 January 2021
Changes in income and movement in and out of poverty over time are only weakly associated with higher rates of child hospitalisation in New Zealand, according to a new University of Auckland study.
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14 December 2020
Confident Pacific children who grow up to be resilient adults is the goal of a University of Auckland project that has received $442,000 in Health Research Council funding.
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10 December 2020
The Atlantic Fellowship for Social Equity (AFSE) programme has announced its 2021 cohort of 18 social change leaders, with six of these from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Environment and sustainability
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20 January 2021
Opinion: New Zealand needs to be bold in making developers enhance the environment - not just limit its degradation, writes Stephen Knight-Lenihan.
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16 December 2020
A new study has found that even a change in eating habits may not be enough for southern right whales to keep up their population recovery from whaling.
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14 December 2020
Towns and farmlands of the upper North Island may be more at risk from earthquakes on the Kerepehi and Wairoa North faults than originally thought.
Health and medicine
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15 January 2021
Women who go to sleep on their back in late pregnancy are more likely to have stillbirths. A cutting-edge MRI study points to why.
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14 January 2021
Changes in income and movement in and out of poverty over time are only weakly associated with higher rates of child hospitalisation in New Zealand, according to a new University of Auckland study.
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14 January 2021
A century of sexual abuse of women in New Zealand is analysed in a University of Auckland study.
Politics and law
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11 January 2021
Opinion: If BLM protesters acted as Trump supporters did last week, the number of dead, injured and arrested would have been incredibly high, writes Neal Curtis.
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8 January 2021
Opinion: In a winner-takes-all world, Donald Trump is not an aberration - he is the epitome of the cost-benefit calculating individual, writes Dame Anne Salmond.
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9 December 2020
Opinion: Stuff’s apology for the treatment of Māori is powerful because it recognises the Queen’s promise of equality and mutual respect, writes Anne Salmond.
Science and technology
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20 January 2021
Sexual reproduction in the insect world is often a risky business and never more so than when the risk of being eaten is high.
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13 January 2021
New Zealand waters provide an important migratory route for the biggest animal to ever exist, the Antarctic blue whale.
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6 January 2021
It’s an insight into ecosystems that existed more than 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
University news
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12 January 2021
Opinion: To build a more prosperous society we must invest in our top talent, including advanced level tertiary education, writes Professor Dawn Freshwater.
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1 January 2021
Professors Anne Salmond, Juliet Gerrard and Cindy Kiro among staff recognised in New Year honours.
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17 December 2020
Prime Minister and ministers announce nationwide Covid vaccine campaign at Grafton campus.
The Challenge
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12 January 2021
In the Infection and Immunity Laboratory at the University of Auckland, a team led by Nikki Moreland has built a Covid-19 time machine.
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25 November 2020
The Waipā River system is on the pathway to restoration, and making sure iwi involvement is embedded in every aspect of the process is critical to its success.
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25 November 2020
The team at the Centre for Green Chemical Science is finding new ways to make the food we eat more sustainable.