Coronavirus
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22 November 2021
We all guessed comfort eating surged during lockdown. New research suggests just how much.
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16 November 2021
Opinion: Dame Anne Salmond looks back at solutions to calamities 100 years ago as a guide to what our leaders must do now on the big issues of Covid and climate.
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15 November 2021
Opinion: This week, the priority in primary schools should be for children to catch up with relationships rather than catch up with school work, writes Peter O'Connor.
Arts and culture
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30 November 2021
The University community was saddened last week to learn of the loss of one of its most important former staff, Emeritus Professor Robert Ellis, who died on 23 November in Auckland, aged 92.
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23 November 2021
If there is a silver lining to the 2021 lockdown, Dr Olivier Holland from the School of Music, has seen it in a record-breaking number of A-plus jazz music compositions by Stage 2 students this semester.
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18 November 2021
Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora and Professor Annie Goldson from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts have both been awarded top medals from the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi.
Business and economy
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11 November 2021
Opinion: Since 2014 China and the US have pushed separate trade deals. China was promoting the FTAAP, while the US was endorsing the then TPP, which excluded China. President Donald Trump later pulled the US out of TPP - now China wants in to what is now the CPTPP. Confused? Rob Scollay unpacks the dance.
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9 November 2021
Opinion: If the government cares about child poverty if would immediately fix the fatal flaw in Working for Families, says Associate Professor Susan St John.
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3 November 2021
Feature: Is New Zealand’s infrastructure ready for an increased uptake in electric vehicles? Experts at the University are helping devise the technology needed.
Education and society
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26 November 2021
The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues of Asian prehistory.
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24 November 2021
White Ribbon Day 25 November is particularly poignant for Aotearoa which has one of the highest rates of violence against women in the OECD.
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15 November 2021
Feminist professor Virginia Braun who teaches gender, critical health psychology and qualitative research at the University of Auckland has been awarded this year’s Marsden Medal.
Environment and sustainability
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29 November 2021
Whales in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf consume around 3 million microplastics per day, a new study has found.
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22 November 2021
There's no conclusive evidence that nitrate in drinking water causes adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth or birth defects, according to a review for the government by the Liggins Institute.
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17 November 2021
Opinion: Centralised control of New Zealand's hydro, solar and wind power and storage is the only way to reduce energy emissions, Kevin Trenberth argues.
Health and medicine
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30 November 2021
Dr James McKeage, Research Fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), is exploring how needle-free jet injection could be used for local anaesthetic before skin graft surgery and he has recently received SfTI (Science for Technological Innovation) Seed Project funding to do so.
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24 November 2021
University of Auckland scientists will lead $10 million of work to tackle one of the country's glaring health inequities.
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22 November 2021
We all guessed comfort eating surged during lockdown. New research suggests just how much.
Politics and law
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24 November 2021
Opinion: China's path to international pre-eminence is not inevitable – it could be constrained by four key factors, writes Stephen Hoadley.
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22 November 2021
Opinion: News that Apple will make repair kits available for some products has renewed focus on right to repair rather than throw products out, writes Alex Sims.
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16 November 2021
Opinion: Dame Anne Salmond looks back at solutions to calamities 100 years ago as a guide to what our leaders must do now on the big issues of Covid and climate.
Science and technology
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30 November 2021
Dr James McKeage, Research Fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), is exploring how needle-free jet injection could be used for local anaesthetic before skin graft surgery and he has recently received SfTI (Science for Technological Innovation) Seed Project funding to do so.
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29 November 2021
Whales in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf consume around 3 million microplastics per day, a new study has found.
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26 November 2021
The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues of Asian prehistory.
University news
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24 November 2021
University of Auckland scientists will lead $10 million of work to tackle one of the country's glaring health inequities.
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19 November 2021
The University of Auckland congratulates its nine academics named on the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list.
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19 November 2021
Two of the three Aotearoa New Zealand 2021 Rhodes Scholars are University of Auckland graduates.
The Challenge
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12 November 2021
Personalised medicine is more than a buzzword for researchers determined to create better and bespoke treatment for blood cancer patients.
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21 October 2021
Endometrial cancer is striking younger women. Detection and treatment could be improved with a first-of-its-kind blood test.
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29 September 2021
Kaumātua and kuia have a special place in Māori society that needs to be acknowledged in a time when Covid 19 forces changes to tikanga.
