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Māori Speech Hui aims to enhance te reo through speech technology
25 June 2021
The University of Auckland will host its second Māori Speech Hui on 1 July, 2021. Organisations and individuals working on all elements of Māori speech and language technologies will gather to discuss work in progress, insights gained, challenges and future directions.
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A cyberattack lesson from Waikato DHB
21 June 2021
Opinion: The major ransomware attack on Waikato DHB should be a lesson for other organisations. Rizwan Asghar has some suggestions on how to protect your systems.
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Mā te mātauranga e ārahi ngā Kaipūtaiao Māori ō ngā reanga e aru mai ana
18 June 2021
Nau mai a Puanga, nau mai te huihui a Matariki, nau mai ngā kōrero o te Maramataka. It's time to celebrate Puanga and Matariki, and to bring forth the teachings of the Maramataka – the Māori stellar-lunar ecological calendar.
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Pioneering audiology researcher honoured
9 June 2021
Professor of Speech Science and Head of the School of Psychology Suzanne Purdy has been named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in this Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Bill Denny becomes Knight Companion
8 June 2021
Distinguished Professor Bill Denny has been named a Knight Companion in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Inspired to build a better future
4 June 2021
Hanna Davidson has always been fascinated with building things and enjoys working with people: One day she hopes to combine the two and manage a major building or transport construction project.
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Sisters study and graduate together
2 June 2021
Sisters Hannah Swinton and Clare Stanton both graduate with doctorates in clinical psychology and say sisterly support has been crucial to their success.
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What the glove told the robot, underwater and on the other side of the world
27 May 2021
New Zealand and Croatian scientists have demonstrated how a gesture-capturing dive glove can communicate with a robot underwater, from opposite sides of the world.
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Prestigious award for brain researcher
24 May 2021
Associate Professor of Psychology Eileen Lueders has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
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Kauri fightback: the scientists determined to control kauri dieback
23 May 2021
Feature: Progress is being made in the fight against kauri dieback. Anthony Doesburg meets researchers at the University determined to save the mighty native conifer.
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Lessons from our Covid tracing app
19 May 2021
Opinion: One year on from the introduction of the NZ COVID Tracer app, Andrew Chen recaps what it does, whether it has worked, and what we could have done better.
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Oldest case of conserved gene order discovered
18 May 2021
Scientists are reporting the oldest known case of conserved gene order.
