Coronavirus
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1 August 2022
Wastewater can reveal a lot about a community – from its health to its drug use. PhD student Mackay Price's research is having an impact.
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1 August 2022
A world-class Covid-19 surveillance system is within our reach, writes Dr David Welch.
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22 June 2022
One key way to attract and retain staff is to give people greater scope to craft their jobs, say University of Auckland researchers.
Arts and culture
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16 August 2022
Dreams don’t often begin with the promise of cupcakes, but Emily Bell will tell you that’s how hers started.
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12 August 2022
Dr Gregory Camp, who will steer an Auckland Writers Festival event that pays homage to the late, great Stephen Sondheim, credits Sondheim as being one of the most significant influences on him as a teacher.
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10 August 2022
Visitors to two central Auckland hospitals will be able to read the work of some of Aotearoa’s most prominent poets from this August until October.
Business and economy
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11 August 2022
Helen Clark, Siouxsie Wiles and Chlöe Swarbrick are just a few of the big names that have inspired students as part of the Kupe Leadership Scholarship.
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10 August 2022
Micro-influencers are proving more influential than those with significantly larger followings, says Dr Yuri Seo.
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8 August 2022
Discrimination in the home loan market is rife, but a recent study shows that the use of digital footprints may even out the playing field.
Education and society
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11 August 2022
The oldest human ‘technology’, stone artefacts, can now be distinguished from rock by the most sophisticated of technologies; artificial intelligence.
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5 August 2022
Opinion: The execution of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar is only the latest evidence of the brutality of the military regime, writes Liyun Wendy Choo.
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25 July 2022
Studying abroad during a time of major global disruption is the focus of a new book edited by University of Auckland Professor of Applied Linguistics Gary Barkhuizen.
Environment and sustainability
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12 August 2022
How to keep tabs on one of our rarest whales? Social media.
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11 August 2022
Successful campaigns to eradicate invasive species from islands show how the world can make big gains in biodiversity.
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9 August 2022
Opinion: Basil Sharp offers Emissions Trading Scheme insights that could help Government deliver property rights that create value and certainty for business.
Health and medicine
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16 August 2022
There is growing evidence that shingles is occurring at a greater rate in people shortly after being infected with Covid. Helen Petousis-Harris
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9 August 2022
University of Auckland scientists are excited by results from a trial of a new treatment for tinnitus.
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8 August 2022
Concerns about effects of fertility treatment on children’s development are unwarranted, large study suggests.
Politics and law
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17 August 2022
Opinion: A by-Māori-for-Māori solution to the overrepresentation and abuse of tamariki Māori in state care is needed, says Dr Fleur Te Aho.
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16 August 2022
Opinion: Aotearoa’s three strikes law resulted in overly harsh sentences and amplified the over-incarceration of Māori and Pacific peoples, writes associate professor Carrie Leonetti.
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11 August 2022
Helen Clark, Siouxsie Wiles and Chlöe Swarbrick are just a few of the big names that have inspired students as part of the Kupe Leadership Scholarship.
Science and technology
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16 August 2022
Invasive pests come with a big price tag, according to research using a new global database.
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12 August 2022
How to keep tabs on one of our rarest whales? Social media.
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11 August 2022
Successful campaigns to eradicate invasive species from islands show how the world can make big gains in biodiversity.
University news
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17 August 2022
Pacific students from South Auckland are being encouraged to be proud, lifelong learners in an initiative called Level Up, run by the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific.
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12 August 2022
Dr Julie Choisne hopes to prevent bone deformation in children with cerebral palsy, and the hip, knee and ankle abnormalities that can result from the condition.
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11 August 2022
Helen Clark, Siouxsie Wiles and Chlöe Swarbrick are just a few of the big names that have inspired students as part of the Kupe Leadership Scholarship.
The Challenge
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9 June 2022
The world faces ‘democratic recession’. Today more people live in autocratic regimes than in liberal democracies. Matheson Russell says democracy needs re-shaping to meet the challenges of climate change and rising inequity.
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4 May 2022
Once safely implanted in the brain, a super sensitive sensor will change the lives of families whose children have hydrocephalus.
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12 April 2022
Engineers design way to clean phosphorus from waste water and turn it into fertiliser.
