Coronavirus
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24 February 2021
Opinion: With the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine gathering steam across New Zealand, here’s a quick explainer from Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles on what goes into it and how it works.
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18 February 2021
A University of Auckland scientist is a key member of a new international panel mapping future Covid-19 scenarios.
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17 February 2021
New Zealand has its own world expert on the economics of happiness. Professor Robert MacCulloch says the pandemic is an opportunity to show how we could do a lot better.
Arts and culture
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22 February 2021
Opinion: Diane Brand looks at how an exclusive yacht race between world superpowers became a 20th century media phenomenon, accessible in ways never thought possible.
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11 February 2021
Composer Ben Fernandez was so inspired by a piano performance he did for the CeleBRation Choir that he composed a song for them during lockdown—complete with vocals for the choir to sing.
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28 January 2021
A New Zealand documentary about the deadly eruption of Whakaari/White Island on 9 December 2019 has been picked up for global distribution.
Business and economy
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26 February 2021
The Government’s venture investment vehicle, New Zealand Growth Capital Partners, have signed on to support Velocity.
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26 February 2021
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the loss of our colleague and friend Emeritus Professor David Emanuel, aged 76, following a courageous battle with cancer.
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26 February 2021
Opinion: A recent cartoon by Rod Emmerson said it all. 'The housing market is on fire, use all the tools available and especially don’t ignore the very potent hose of taxation,' writes Associate Professor Susan St John.
Education and society
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23 February 2021
Gay male academics in China find ways of living authentically while also appearing to conform in a society often openly hostile to homosexuality, a new study has found.
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16 February 2021
Opinion: Covid has shown the value of an educated population that trusts science. Time now surely for a ‘knowledge restoration' in schools, writes Elizabeth Rata.
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9 February 2021
The 49 days of national lockdown in 2020 created stressful dilemmas between public compliance and personal responsibilities, a new study has found.
Environment and sustainability
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23 February 2021
New Zealand’s goal to become predator free by 2050 will remain an unrealised dream unless new technologies and advances in social engagement continue to be developed, researchers who first promoted it say.
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22 February 2021
Opinion: The fundamental nature of our economic system is to benefit from ecological decline. Stephen Knight-Lenihan makes the case for another way.
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18 February 2021
Opinion: Ditching the fees may seem like an easy way to reduce carbon emissions and help transport poverty. But, as Dr Kirsty Wild explains, free public transport is far from a silver bullet.
Health and medicine
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23 February 2021
Ethnicity changes the odds for a baby born with a heart defect. A Sāmoan doctor will investigate why.
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18 February 2021
A University of Auckland scientist is a key member of a new international panel mapping future Covid-19 scenarios.
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18 February 2021
Hugh Green overcame hardship to become a leading New Zealand businessman. Now, his philanthropic legacy is supporting world-leading research aimed to help newborn babies to breathe.
Politics and law
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23 February 2021
Opinion: Australia revoked the citizenship of a dual citizen labelled a terrorist has made the woman an NZ problem. John Ip argues the move is legalised NIMBYism.
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22 February 2021
Opinion: The fundamental nature of our economic system is to benefit from ecological decline. Stephen Knight-Lenihan makes the case for another way.
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18 February 2021
Opinion: The Pacific Islands Forum leadership rift will not be the death knell for Pacific regionalism as long as nations keep talking, writes Yvonne Underhill-Sem.
Science and technology
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10 February 2021
Professor Andre Nies receives a Humboldt Research Award.
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4 February 2021
Opinion: The discovery of nine stars in an ancient galaxy opens new prospects to study of the early universe and giant dark matter, explains Heloise Stevance.
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3 February 2021
Researchers at ABI are collaborating with Mātai, a medical imaging research centre based in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, on what is possibly a world-first study that will help us understand how cerebral palsy (CP) affects muscle growth.
University news
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25 February 2021
The University of Auckland is partnering with Pennsylvania State University in April to host the Times Higher Education Innovation & Impact Summit on the value of international research and collaboration.
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24 February 2021
He puhi taioreore, he pukenga rau – a woman of high accolades and many achievements.
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10 February 2021
Professor Andre Nies receives a Humboldt Research Award.
The Challenge
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24 February 2021
Researchers have articulated a way to look at and look after our fresh waterways founded on Matauranga Māori.
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17 February 2021
New Zealand has its own world expert on the economics of happiness. Professor Robert MacCulloch says the pandemic is an opportunity to show how we could do a lot better.
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16 February 2021
International business researcher Christina Stringer has lifted the lid on migrant workers facing serious exploitation in New Zealand
