Feature Article
14 February 2023
Successful campaigns have a clear, positive vision and offer practical ways people can make a difference, according to a new book on youth activism in Aotearoa.
Sustainable impact
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21 March 2023
Opinion: As New Zealand inherits the climate legacy of larger and more powerful nations, we must turn our attention to leading by example, writes Kevin Trenberth
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20 March 2023
A look back over the past 50 years shows that international environmental law has ignored its overarching objective to protect the global environment, says Professor Klaus Bosselmann.
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20 March 2023
Opinion: Housing supply has never been more of a problem in New Zealand, and only set to worsen as the climate heats. Diane Brand and Minh Nguyen make the case for investing in well-designed prefabricated housing.
Arts and culture
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24 March 2023
Aotearoa New Zealand fiction, non-fiction and poetry is getting a boost with a new site devoted to reviews, launched with seed funding from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland.
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21 March 2023
Three graduates from Elam School of Fine Arts are in the running for the 2024 Walters Prize – and $50,000 in prize money.
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16 March 2023
Gregory Camp from the School of Music looks at how Babylon and The Fabelmans take opposing but equally successful approaches to using music in film.
Business and economy
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24 March 2023
Opinion: Mega-projects like Auckland's City Rail Link are inherently risky. But with good planning and management they can be successful, explains Bevan Clement.
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23 March 2023
Opinion: The future of flood recovery should be adaptive, says emeritus professor Basil Sharp.
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15 March 2023
Opinion: What does Christopher Luxon's statement about the consultant 'gravy train' tell us about the place of consultancy in government, asks Nicolas Lewis, Tom Baker and Russell Prince.
Education and society
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24 March 2023
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 is authored by a collective of established Māori historians who will speak at National Library of New Zealand, in Wellington on March 28.
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24 March 2023
Questioning the mental health system and labels given to various conditions by psychiatrists is the focus of a special issue of New Zealand Sociology.
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9 March 2023
Standardised tests aren't perfect but they do warn us there is something wrong in our school system, says Professor Gavin Brown, and if don’t like the results, we shouldn’t ignore the test data.
Environment
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23 March 2023
Dr Maj Padamsee, of the School of Biological Sciences, leads research into a fungal threat.
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21 March 2023
Opinion: As New Zealand inherits the climate legacy of larger and more powerful nations, we must turn our attention to leading by example, writes Kevin Trenberth
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20 March 2023
Opinion: Housing supply has never been more of a problem in New Zealand, and only set to worsen as the climate heats. Diane Brand and Minh Nguyen make the case for investing in well-designed prefabricated housing.
Health and medicine
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24 March 2023
Questioning the mental health system and labels given to various conditions by psychiatrists is the focus of a special issue of New Zealand Sociology.
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22 March 2023
Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington and Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, have been named as co-hosts of a government-funded Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Development Platform.
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16 March 2023
Opinion: Magda Rosin and Cliona Ni Mhurchu argue that supermarkets should be regulated to promote health food choices, using the sort of tactics they use to promote unhealthy food choices.
Politics and law
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24 March 2023
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 is authored by a collective of established Māori historians who will speak at National Library of New Zealand, in Wellington on March 28.
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20 March 2023
A look back over the past 50 years shows that international environmental law has ignored its overarching objective to protect the global environment, says Professor Klaus Bosselmann.
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20 March 2023
Law students Oscar Read, Andrew Fu and Isabella Wensley competed against 24 other teams in an international moot competition this month and took out second place.
Science and technology
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24 March 2023
What roles may vast phytoplankton blooms play in ocean ecosystems? Dr Chris Horvat investigates.
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23 March 2023
Dr Maj Padamsee, of the School of Biological Sciences, leads research into a fungal threat.
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15 March 2023
Postgraduate student Michaela Dobson wins a scholarship to NASA.
University news
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24 March 2023
Te Pouhere Kōrero 10 is authored by a collective of established Māori historians who will speak at National Library of New Zealand, in Wellington on March 28.
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20 March 2023
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland has signed a $50 million sustainability loan, breaking new ground for New Zealand’s university sector.
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16 March 2023
Eleven academics from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland have been made Fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, being recognised for their world leadership in research and scholarship.
The Challenge
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23 March 2023
Batman fan turned inventor Nandoun Abeysekera is developing a device to make micro-surgery faster and safer for patients.
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8 February 2023
Rather than 'clean and green' is the future for our food crops 'dead and brown'? Researcher Andrew Allan says our time to decide is running out.
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15 December 2022
Dr Igor Kontorovich describes how we can ensure mathematics education is fit for future learning.
