Coronavirus
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3 December 2021
Opinion: NZ's new law covering vaccination and the use of tracing data is at best rough and at worst potentially flawed.
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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.
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2 December 2021
School of Chemistry scientist Dr Joel Rindelaub and rap artist Randa have released a debut music video Vax the Nation to encourage everyone to get the jab.
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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3 December 2021
Associate Professor Dr Christine Woods has been appointed as the inaugural Theresa Gattung Chair for Women in Entrepreneurship.
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2 December 2021
The urgency of the climate threat and the need for greater cooperation and equity between countries is changing the conversation about global trade
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11 November 2021
Opinion: Since 2014 China and the US have pushed separate trade deals. China was promoting the FTAAP, while the US was endorsing the then TPP, which excluded China. President Donald Trump later pulled the US out of TPP - now China wants in to what is now the CPTPP. Confused? Rob Scollay unpacks the dance.
Education and society
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3 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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2 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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2 December 2021
The urgency of the climate threat and the need for greater cooperation and equity between countries is changing the conversation about global trade
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2 December 2021
Opinion: Moving NZ to a circular economy that involves Māori and aligns with Te Tiriti o Waitangi would help the environment and human well-being, writes Saeid Baroutian.
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2 December 2021
James Muirhead says Aotearoa New Zealand is the perfect place to understand the carbon emissions from the natural world.
Health and medicine
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8 December 2021
Youth glued to screens show signs of an eye problem seen in much older people.
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7 December 2021
Disabled people are targets for abuse but a new report offers a blueprint for change.
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6 December 2021
No-one expects fast-food combo meals to be healthy eating, but just how bad do they get?
Politics and law
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8 December 2021
The chance to have an impact on large organisations that make important decisions about people’s lives was too good a chance to miss for two University of Auckland Public Policy Institute students.
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8 December 2021
Opinion: Lessons from 2020’s election and political currents caused by Covid mean the 2023 election is open for parties that listen, writes Jennifer Lees-Marshment
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3 December 2021
Honorary Professor Dr Penelope Ridings, MNZM, has been elected to the International Law Commission - the UN global body tasked with the development and codification of international law.
Science and technology
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2 December 2021
Eamonn O'Brien devises algorithims and algebra as tools to answer fundamental research questions.
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2 December 2021
Geoffrey Waterhouse's research has led to the invention of low cost sensors to detect pollution and viruses and technology to remove pollutants from soil and water.
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1 December 2021
If cardiac pacemakers can correct abnormal heart rhythms through the application of electricity, could a similar technology be used to understand and potentially correct abnormal rhythms in the gut?
University news
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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.
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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.
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1 December 2021
The University’s inaugural Provost, Professor Valerie Linton, explains what the role is and what she brings to it.
The Challenge
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3 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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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.
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2 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.