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Vital new voice wins big creative writing prize
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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Major award for architect practising what he teaches
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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Robert Ellis (1929-2021): committed to biculturalism and ethical arts practice
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.
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Jazz students in lockdown blow teacher’s socks off
23 November 2021
If there is a silver lining to the 2021 lockdown, Dr Olivier Holland from the School of Music, has seen it in a record-breaking number of A-plus jazz music compositions by Stage 2 students this semester.
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Acclaimed Māori scholar and notable filmmaker: Royal Society honours
18 November 2021
Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora and Professor Annie Goldson from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts have both been awarded top medals from the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi.
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The mysteries of taboo: a Marsden study
11 November 2021
'Taboo' is the subject of an ambitious University of Auckland study that has received funding from Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund.
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Behind the scenes with the PM's Chief Science Advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard
1 November 2021
Juliet Gerrard has brought her own style to the role of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, as a new documentary shows.
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Opera singer and teacher appointed to NZ Opera board
27 October 2021
Dr Te Oti Rakena, senior lecturer in Vocal Studies at the School of Music, has been appointed to the board of the NZ Opera.
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Compelling cancer survival story brought to the screen
19 October 2021
If you were saved from dying, how would you live?
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A new and very contemporary take on the quarter acre dream
6 October 2021
A photo of a bedroom featuring a sleeping person in bed, houseplants, and a print of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Broadacre City’ - his plan for a ‘perfect but very imperfect community’ - is this year’s winner of the Simon Devitt Prize for Photography.
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If collapse is inevitable, can we at least collapse with grace?
21 September 2021
A new book co-authored by Dr Emilio Garcia, School of Architecture and Planning, explores the very real possibility of collapse in the built environment, and how we can prepare for a graceful landing.
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Using technologies of the future to piece together the past
20 September 2021
A world-leading project to analyse thousands of Māori stone artefacts has been funded at the University of Auckland.
