Coronavirus
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13 January 2022
International study is a reminder that children are at risk of severe outcomes from Covid-19, as vaccination starts.
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1 January 2022
Opinion: Our national response to Covid-19 in 2021 was doing so well until warnings over inequity, elimination and vaccination were ignored, writes Collin Tukuitonga.
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13 December 2021
Trove of hundreds of letters collected by University of Auckland researchers reveals how older people coped with lockdown isolation.
Arts and culture
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9 December 2021
The first winner of the $10,000 Crystal Arts Trust Prize is Saraid de Silva, a writer on the 2020–21 cohort of the Master of Creative Writing (MCW) programme at the University of Auckland.
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3 December 2021
Professor Anthony Hoete (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rānana) has won the International Architecture category in the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Awards 2021, for a five-storey block of houses he developed, designed and built in London.
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30 November 2021
The University community is saddened 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.
Business and economy
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14 December 2021
High-performing undergraduate students at the University of Auckland Business School are being encouraged to use their skills to benefit the community through an initiative developed by academics at the school, called the Accelerate programme.
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14 December 2021
University of Auckland Business School graduates and staff talk about how upskilling through postgraduate study benefits both businesses and graduate careers.
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14 December 2021
The Master of Information Governance at the University of Auckland equips students with the legal, data and cybersecurity skills as well as the ethical framework to tackle the digital future of work.
Education and society
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14 December 2021
Aroha Harris tells Aotearoa New Zealand history with a Māori lens and methodology. Her work brings history to life.
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14 December 2021
Marama Muru-Lanning and her team have created new methodologies from kaupapa Māori and social anthropology to include the voice of kaumātua in health, social and environmental policy and services.
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2 December 2021
Sereana Naepi is exploring new and more inclusive models for education from our universities.
Environment and sustainability
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14 January 2022
The presence of PFAS in New Zealand wastewaters, coastal waters, and surface waters has been confirmed by University of Auckland researchers.
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10 January 2022
Opinion: Oceans can slow global warming but without action we risk losing their capacity to solve our overheating problem, write Maria Armoudian and Simon Thrush.
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28 December 2021
Opinion: Research which tests stress levels of seabirds from their feathers can help chart effects of climate change on threatened populations, writes Maira Fessardi.
Health and medicine
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13 January 2022
International study is a reminder that children are at risk of severe outcomes from Covid-19, as vaccination starts.
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1 January 2022
Opinion: Our national response to Covid-19 in 2021 was doing so well until warnings over inequity, elimination and vaccination were ignored, writes Collin Tukuitonga.
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24 December 2021
Opinion: Excess weight contributes to health problems costing NZ at least $2 billion a year but is studiously ignored by governments, writes Professor Boyd Swinburn.
Politics and law
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27 December 2021
Opinion: Plans to merge council water services into big regional boards may create a democratic deficit. There is a better way, writes Tatjana Buklijas and Campbell Guy.
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22 December 2021
Opinion: The Three Waters reform must be an opportunity for listening, not for a government imposing its view of water as 'assets', writes Dame Anne Salmond.
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14 December 2021
Two postgraduate courses on intellectual property taught at the University have been accredited by the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board.
Science and technology
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11 January 2022
Dr Davide Mercadante and colleagues are unravelling mysteries of gene expression.
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13 December 2021
Opinion: There's another public health emergency and it revolves around 'forever chemicals' found in many things commonly used in everyday life, writes Lokesh Padhye.
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10 December 2021
Director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures Sir Peter Gluckman has been awarded awarded the prestigious Singapore President’s Science and Technology Medal.
University news
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5 January 2022
Members of the University of Auckland community were recognised in the 2022 New Year Honours.
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14 December 2021
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dawn Freshwater, comments on mātauranga Māori and science.
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3 December 2021
Associate Professor Dr Christine Woods has been appointed as the inaugural Theresa Gattung Chair for Women in Entrepreneurship.
The Challenge
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14 December 2021
Aroha Harris tells Aotearoa New Zealand history with a Māori lens and methodology. Her work brings history to life.
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14 December 2021
Marama Muru-Lanning and her team have created new methodologies from kaupapa Māori and social anthropology to include the voice of kaumātua in health, social and environmental policy and services.
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2 December 2021
Researchers and technical staff volunteered time and expertise in New Zealand's Covid response. This video acknowledges their work at a time of national crisis.
