Feature Article
1 October 2024
After falling in love with K-pop, Fine Koloamatangi has now made the genre the focus of her art history PhD, exploring its visual appeal to Pacific peoples.
Sustainable impact
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8 October 2024
Law student and entrepreneur Jean-Luc Ellis took out a major Blues award this week for his start-up, WasteXpert.
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3 October 2024
Researchers are creating an innovative ‘SimCity’ to improve resilience planning and better prepare cities for natural disasters.
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3 October 2024
How public money should best be used to mitigate the effects of climate change in coastal areas is the central theme of a public lecture coming up at the University of Auckland.
Arts and culture
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8 October 2024
A new art installation by student Sahil Tiku asks Aucklanders to weave their memories of living in the city into a communal tapestry.
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1 October 2024
Godfrey De Grut’s office – filled with keyboards, guitars, albums, music awards and even a keytar – is a musician’s paradise.
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1 October 2024
Madeleine Gifford takes a closer look at Reuben Paterson’s glitter paintings, which are part of the University of Auckland Art Collection.
Business and economy
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9 October 2024
Women, Democrats and people with higher AI literacy are more responsive to AI-generated financial forecasts – study.
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8 October 2024
Law student and entrepreneur Jean-Luc Ellis took out a major Blues award this week for his start-up, WasteXpert.
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7 October 2024
Analysis: Small businesses in New Zealand are facing mounting pressure as rising costs and declining consumer spending take their toll.
Education and society
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1 October 2024
OPINION: Dr Karamia Müller says examples of housing that meet the needs and aspirations for Māori and Pacific people need to be considered on a larger scale.
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26 September 2024
Netball has been the number one game for girls and women in New Zealand for a century, but we haven’t known much about its early history, until now.
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23 September 2024
There is a gap between ‘I would do something to help’ and ‘I did do something to help’. Kirsten Tilleman looks at how we can bridge that gap.
Environment
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3 October 2024
How public money should best be used to mitigate the effects of climate change in coastal areas is the central theme of a public lecture coming up at the University of Auckland.
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26 September 2024
Opinion: Many NZ products promoted as compostable or biodegradable fail to tell customers how they should be handled and where they should end up. Nargiss Taleb argues for tougher policies on claims and labelling.
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25 September 2024
Opinion: Joel Rindelaub describes what the science does and doesn't know about the potential dangers of the plastics in our bodies, and the chemicals in the plastics getting into our bodies.
Health and medicine
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8 October 2024
Holocaust survivor Lewis Bieder donated medications for critical Kiwi research more than 50 years ago. He had no idea it would help millions of babies worldwide – including a member of his family three generations on.
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7 October 2024
The 2024 Stanford Elsevier list of the Top Two Percent of Scientists in the world includes six academics from the Liggins Institute, an impressive achievement for a small institute.
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4 October 2024
Five Univerity of Auckland biomedical researchers have been awarded Heart Foundation project grants totalling $835,000 over three years
Politics and law
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7 October 2024
Opinion: Greenpeace is suing Fonterra over Anchor butter's 100 percent grass-fed claims. Vernon Rive examines the case.
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25 September 2024
Analysis: ACT’s bill can be seen as the culmination of moves over several decades by the Crown to use Treaty principles to rewrite te Tiriti and justify its own power.
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24 September 2024
New Zealand TV and radio journalist Sarah Bradley recently graduated from the University of Auckland with a PhD focused on the politics of New Caledonia.
Science and technology
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1 October 2024
At Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute, astrodynamics researchers are charting the course for the next era of space discovery.
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1 October 2024
A team from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute will use cutting-edge equipment to test whether increasing the efficiency of the heart could improve or even prevent right-heart failure.
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24 September 2024
It’s been a huge year for bioengineering student Shima Mohammadi Moghadam. Not only has she completed her PhD a year early and found a top job, she’s had a baby too.
University news
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9 October 2024
The University of Auckland is No 1 in New Zealand and 152 in the world in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2025.
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19 September 2024
List of top scientists in the world includes University of Auckland researchers from a wide range of disciplines.
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13 September 2024
Endeavour fund supports Innovative ideas and leading researchers from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
The Challenge
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23 September 2024
University of Auckland researchers say intimate partner violence is a wider health issue that comes at a cost of many billions each year.
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23 September 2024
A young woman with the rare disease gastroparesis starved to death. Her legacy, the charity Ruby's Voice, is supporting University of Auckland research to find answers.
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9 September 2024
A 30-year-old theory explaining why some New Zealand fungi are so colourful has been confirmed.
