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Book a date with top writers online
2 May 2020
Fans of the Auckland Writers Festival can still hear many of its big, international and local names in the new 2020 Winter Online Series, hosted by the University of Auckland’s Paula Morris.
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A professor’s significant legacy
7 April 2020
To celebrate a much-admired professor, University alumni and staff members rallied together over a few months to donate $136,000 for an endowed scholarship in his name.
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Adventurous fun as educational pilot launched
7 April 2020
Whether they were swinging from a trapeze, abseiling from a high beam or assembling a raft, 80 students from Aorere College had an adventure-filled start last month to a programme that hopes to offer them more options for their future.
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A creator’s dream set in motion
7 April 2020
Struggling to make ends meet, Evangeline Riddiford Graham had almost given up on her studies at the New School in New York.
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Jeremy Salmond, contemporary voice of heritage, recognised as Distinguished Alumni
10 March 2020
Jeremy Salmond, a practising architect widely acknowledged for his contribution to the practice of building conservation in New Zealand, is one of four outstanding graduates to be recognised with a Distinguished Alumni Award.
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How much does kindness matter in politics?
5 March 2020
Green MP and Faculty of Arts alumna Chlöe Swarbrick and Canadian professor Michael Orsini join a public panel discussion on the ways kindness and emotion can work in politics and policy.
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Alumnus helps send 20,000 essential items to Wuhan
4 March 2020
An alumnus formerly from Wuhan, China, has raised nearly $2,700 in six days to support Wuhan hospitals and medical practitioners following the COVID-19 outbreak.
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New Year's Honours 2020
4 February 2020
Congratulations to the alumni, staff and friends of the University who received New Year's Honours in 2020.
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The Pulse of the Gulf
9 December 2019
Space research is playing an influential role in a very down-to-earth project that aims to unlock the biological secrets of the Hauraki Gulf.
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Some liked it hot
9 December 2019
The relentless quest to prove whether there once was life on Mars is a key driver behind two trans-Tasman research initiatives that are simultaneously looking into the evolution of microbes in hot pools near Rotorua and beneath the parched red earth of Western Australia.
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Stars on film
9 December 2019
The science of star gazing will be taken to an entirely new level in 2022 when a next-generation telescope fitted with the world’s largest digital camera starts to capture what’s been described as the first motion picture of the Universe.
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The curiosity and wonder of it all
9 December 2019
Applied Mathematics and Physics student Anastasiya Kiddle says she’s never personally experienced any gender bias, but she’s heard a lot of stories from friends who have.
