Feature Article

9 March 2021
Ka rere arorangi atu te reo Māori ki te pae tukutuku – the University of Auckland introduces te reo Māori on its website.
Coronavirus
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8 March 2021
Opinion: On International Women’s Day, Nikki Turner, Immunisation Advisory Centre director, talks about vaccine clinical trials and why women should never be excluded.
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8 March 2021
Companies selling snacks and fast food leveraged Aotearoa’s first pandemic lockdown to market unhealthy products.
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4 March 2021
Opinion: Collin Tukuitonga explains why making New Zealand citizens of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau a priority for the Covid-19 vaccine is a good investment.
Arts and culture
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8 March 2021
The works of novelist, journalist and biographer Robin Hyde, many housed at the University of Auckland Library Special Collections, have been recognised by UNESCO as part of the New Zealand Memory of the World Register.
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4 March 2021
The fraught but often fruitful engagement between Māori and Pākehā connect two University of Auckland authors’ books on the 2021 Ockham NZ Book Award shortlist, while the third chronicles the country’s creative talent.
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3 March 2021
Opinion: Bunny Wailer, the last of Jamaican trio the Wailers to die, was considered one of the senior statesmen of reggae and Rastafarianism, writes Graham Reid.
Business and economy
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8 March 2021
Opinion: On International Women's Day, Professor Susan Watson challenges NZ businesses to recognise leadership diversity as a critical and inherent feature of good governance.
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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.
Education and society
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3 March 2021
The widely held assumption that city children have lost their connection to nature is being challenged by experts in the field.
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1 March 2021
Knitting isn’t just good for your wardrobe – student Mei Gillespie reckons it's a great distraction in lockdown.
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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.
Environment and sustainability
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3 March 2021
Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young snapper to hear, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James Cook University in Australia.
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1 March 2021
A nationwide project to investigate the soil beneath our feet has been launched by scientists and New Zealanders are encouraged to send in samples of their own garden soil for analysis.
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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.
Health and medicine
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8 March 2021
Opinion: On International Women’s Day, Nikki Turner, Immunisation Advisory Centre director, talks about vaccine clinical trials and why women should never be excluded.
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8 March 2021
Companies selling snacks and fast food leveraged Aotearoa’s first pandemic lockdown to market unhealthy products.
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8 March 2021
Opinion: International Women’s Day celebrates women’s achievements and raises awareness of the continuing mission towards gender equality. So it’s a good time to be reminded we still need to correct decades – centuries even – of gender bias in medicine and medical research.
Politics and law
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9 March 2021
A team representing the University of Auckland Law School has won the 16th edition of the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition, in an all women final against Bulgaria’s University of Sofia.
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2 March 2021
Opinion: What has driven usually-obedient Myanmar citizens to put their lives and livelihoods at risk by joining the anti-coup protests? Liyun Wendy Choo explains.
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1 March 2021
Opinion: The seizing and jailing of a Palestinian dancer is part of the silencing of cultural critics in Israel, writes Nicholas Rowe.
Science and technology
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5 March 2021
Opinion: A Harvard professor presenting his opinions on alien life as fact when the field at large doesn't agree is misrepresenting science, argues Heloise Stevance.
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3 March 2021
Higher levels of CO2 affect the ability of young snapper to hear, according to a new study published by scientists from the University of Auckland, NIWA and James Cook University in Australia.
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1 March 2021
New Zealand’s manufacturing sector needs urgent change to survive post-Covid including an end to reliance on ‘manual and archaic machinery’ which makes it difficult to compete internationally. This is the view of a manufacturing sector think tank based at the University of Auckland.
University news
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9 March 2021
Ka rere arorangi atu te reo Māori ki te pae tukutuku – the University of Auckland introduces te reo Māori on its website.
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4 March 2021
The University of Auckland maintains its outstanding record of excellence, evidenced by the QS Subject Rankings distributed today (Thursday 4 March NZT).
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4 March 2021
The fraught but often fruitful engagement between Māori and Pākehā connect two University of Auckland authors’ books on the 2021 Ockham NZ Book Award shortlist, while the third chronicles the country’s creative talent.
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