Feature Article
5 August 2020
Opinion: The Government cannot address alone issues of the magnitude of Covid-19. Dawn Freshwater looks at where universities fit into our country's recovery.
Coronavirus
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5 August 2020
Opinion: The Government cannot address alone issues of the magnitude of Covid-19. Dawn Freshwater looks at where universities fit into our country's recovery.
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5 August 2020
Opinion: Putting the entire state under stage four restrictions, rather than just Melbourne, would give Victoria the best chance of success, writes Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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4 August 2020
Opinion: Over the last few days, reports have emerged of people travelling from New Zealand and testing positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at their destination. First in South Korea and now in Australia. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles explains what these positive tests could mean.
University news
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5 August 2020
The final piece of the welcoming of Professor Dawn Freshwater Vice-Chancellor, Ihorangi, to her new home at the University of Auckland took place last week with an official welcome onto Waipapa Marae by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
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22 July 2020
University awards contract worth $18.6m to lead the national training and placement of Nurse Practitioners.
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16 July 2020
Professor Jenny Dixon, DVC (Strategic Engagement) has been announced as the new Provost of Universitas21.
Arts and culture
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3 August 2020
Opinion: There’s no better time for politicians to do the dance of political management than ahead of the 19 September election, writes Jennifer Lees-Marshment.
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3 August 2020
Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children, a graphic memoir, is a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for children and young adults.
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28 July 2020
An exhibition of photographs on show in Old Government House, University of Auckland, is a kind of ‘coming home’ for the artist curator, Emil McAvoy, who developed the exhibition as part of his Diploma of Fine Arts in 2010.
Business and economy
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5 August 2020
Opinion: The Government cannot address alone issues of the magnitude of Covid-19. Dawn Freshwater looks at where universities fit into our country's recovery.
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23 July 2020
Opinion: Want to improve your company's corporate social responsibility? Charl de Villiers shares ways to shape boards to improve social and environmental outcomes.
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16 July 2020
Opinion: Australia should be careful to avoid the negative consequences of subsidising its space sector as it channels millions of dollars to spur development in space-related industries, writes Nicholas Borroz.
Education and society
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5 August 2020
A vision to stimulate world-class historical research is behind a $500,000 gift to establish a History Innovation Fund at the University of Auckland.
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29 July 2020
Lockdown highlighted and exacerbated young Māori students’ life on the wrong side of the digital divide says a new report, which provides evidence and recommendations for how the disparities can be addressed.
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27 July 2020
Parents' experiences of helping their children do maths at home during the Covid-19 lockdown varied widely depending on the school, a University of Auckland survey has found.
Environment and sustainability
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23 July 2020
Professor Mark Billinghurst is one of a panel of four experts talking about Tourism without Travel at TechWeek, on how Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can be used to create a new type of tourism, which be safer, cheaper and better for the planet.
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22 July 2020
It’s widely thought that as sea levels rise due to climate change, coastal erosion will get worse but new research shows it’s not just wave height we need to be thinking about.
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22 July 2020
Making plastic recycling easier and cheaper is key to creating a circular economy of high valued recycled materials and reduced landfill, explains Johan Verbeek.
Health and medicine
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5 August 2020
Opinion: The Government cannot address alone issues of the magnitude of Covid-19. Dawn Freshwater looks at where universities fit into our country's recovery.
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3 August 2020
Free sanitary products are available at the University of Auckland in Semester Two, funded by donations from the ‘Staff for Students: Well-being Fund’.
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31 July 2020
New Zealand’s plan to legalise cannabis is public health-oriented. But the proposed legislation may struggle to achieve goals such as restricting young people’s access to the drug, according to a leading substance use policy expert.
Politics and law
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5 August 2020
Opinion: It's time to end to the manipulation of newsfeeds, demand fact-checking and smash our echo chambers, writes Gehan Gunasekara.
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4 August 2020
Opinion: When it comes to child protection in New Zealand, it is time to lay the corporate warrior and troubled Pākehā conscience to rest, writes Ian Hyslop.
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3 August 2020
Opinion: There’s no better time for politicians to do the dance of political management than ahead of the 19 September election, writes Jennifer Lees-Marshment.
Science and technology
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6 August 2020
Robots are good at welding, packaging and assembling cars, but creating robots that have the sensitivity of a human hand remains a challenge, one that Dr Samuel Rosset and his team at the ABI aims to address.
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28 July 2020
Opinion: Emma Carroll is on her way to the Auckland Islands to try to unfold the mysteries of where tohorā go when they leave sub-Antarctica, and their ocean routes.
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24 July 2020
As many daily activities came to a halt during lockdown, the Earth itself became quiet, probably quieter than it has been since humans developed the technology to listen in.
The Challenge
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25 May 2020
Researchers have produced a snapshot of what our infants are eating. The research holds clues to how Aotearoa’s children have become the second most obese in the world and what we might do about it.
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24 May 2020
Māori were skilled ocean voyagers. Their ancient knowledge of clouds could inform the accuracy of contemporary climate change models.
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21 April 2020
Are microplastics disrupting the tiny creatures crucial to our marine food web?
