Feature Article
16 July 2019
Opinion: Healthy living is not a guarantee against cancer – but it does stack the odds in your favour, writes Andrew Shelling, Mark Elwood and Clare Wall.
Arts and culture
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19 July 2019
Opinion: Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but if we define ‘space race’ by spaceflight capability, the Soviets won hands down, writes Jennifer Frost.
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18 July 2019
Last summer Amber worked with Dr Ngarino Ellis to find and record items of Māori body adornment that are held in museum collections or have come up for auction.
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12 July 2019
America is constantly “fantasised, sensationalised, and caricatured,” says Brendon O’Connor, an expert in American politics at the University of Sydney.
Business and economy
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18 July 2019
Opinion: The challenge for NZ employers to hire the people they need is well recognised, but there is talent trained right here many overlook, writes Brett Berquist.
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15 July 2019
No one would have anticipated a lawn bowls tournament to be the next success story to emerge from the University of Auckland’s entrepreneurship hub. Except, that is, for PhD student Rebecca Jelley.
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8 July 2019
Ane Tonga has returned to University to undertake a Master of Arts majoring in Art History. Her thesis will examine Pacific curatorial practice in New Zealand between 1989 and 2019, a research area that has received very little critical attention.
Education and society
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16 July 2019
Opinion: Healthy living is not a guarantee against cancer – but it does stack the odds in your favour, writes Andrew Shelling, Mark Elwood and Clare Wall.
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11 July 2019
A virtual reality game that could save lives during an earthquake has won the education category of the University of Auckland’s 2019 Velocity Challenge.
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11 July 2019
Opinion: New liquor laws were meant to give communities more input into licensing decisions, but councils have a battle with the alcohol industry, writes Nicki Jackson.
Environment and sustainability
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23 July 2019
Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering have developed a way to turn chicken feathers into a high performing fire retardant.
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23 July 2019
It is the only known New Zealand freshwater fish to have gone extinct but the speed at which upokororo disappeared forever has remained something of a puzzle.
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22 July 2019
Opinion: What are you getting out of your daily commute? Kim Dirks considers the implications of how we get from A to B and the effect our options have on well-being.
Health and medicine
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22 July 2019
This year’s World Brain Day today is dedicated to one of the most complex of all neurological disorders that affects millions of people worldwide: migraine.
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18 July 2019
Opinion: The community sector is being propped up by the proceeds of gambling. Professor Peter Adams says we need to find another way to fund our lifeblood organisations that's not profiting off people's misery.
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17 July 2019
As the Government shapes our climate policy, a University of Auckland researcher and paediatrician shares her hopes and fears with the NZ Herald.
Politics and law
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22 July 2019
KDee completed a Summer Research Scholarship with Associate Professor Jennifer Frost exploring the enfranchisement of 18 to 21 year olds in the United States.
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16 July 2019
Opinion: Natural forests take up 40 times more carbon than plantations, but most new planting under NZ’s Billion Trees policy is pine, writes Dame Anne Salmond.
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12 July 2019
America is constantly “fantasised, sensationalised, and caricatured,” says Brendon O’Connor, an expert in American politics at the University of Sydney.
Science and technology
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23 July 2019
Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering have developed a way to turn chicken feathers into a high performing fire retardant.
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23 July 2019
It is the only known New Zealand freshwater fish to have gone extinct but the speed at which upokororo disappeared forever has remained something of a puzzle.
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19 July 2019
Opinion: Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but if we define ‘space race’ by spaceflight capability, the Soviets won hands down, writes Jennifer Frost.
University news
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23 July 2019
Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering have developed a way to turn chicken feathers into a high performing fire retardant.
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15 July 2019
No one would have anticipated a lawn bowls tournament to be the next success story to emerge from the University of Auckland’s entrepreneurship hub. Except, that is, for PhD student Rebecca Jelley.
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13 July 2019
University of Auckland alumni have been out and about answering calls for volunteer help, including building a new vegetable garden at Epsom Lodge and working with people with disabilities on the North Shore.
