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Dr Dives To Medical History
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:40 am | Auckland University
Christchurch emergency physician Dr Sandy Inglis will make New Zealand medical history on April 27th when he becomes the first doctor to graduate with a Postgraduate Diploma in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine from The University of Auckland. More >>
Indigenous treaties underpin political order
Monday, 24 April 2006, 4:03 pm | Auckland University
A leading Canadian scholar on indigenous law will next week give a free public lecture at The University of Auckland. Professor John Borrows from the Law Faculty at the University of Victoria, British Columbia will speak on "Creating indigenous countries: ... More >>
Campaigner against global warming in Auckland
Monday, 27 March 2006, 12:50 am | Auckland University
Eminent geophysicist Professor Lord Ron Oxburgh, a passionate advocate on the dangers of global warming and former oil company head, will give a free public lecture at The University of Auckland next Friday (March 31). More >>
Novel process reduces toxic chemical use
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 11:51 am | Auckland University
A chemical engineer at The University of Auckland has used environmentally-friendly vegetable oils to replace toxic chemical solvents like kerosene in the extraction of a range of biomolecules, such as antibiotics and organic acids. More >>
Kiwi astronomers help find icy 'Super Earth' life
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 10:48 am | Auckland University
By designing a variant of an astronomical technique proposed by Einstein, researchers from The University of Auckland and Massey University, together with astronomers from Auckland's Stardome Observatory, have found evidence for a new icy "super earth". More >>
New book highlights Auckland's business history
Friday, 10 March 2006, 10:05 am | Auckland University
A long-overdue book on Auckland's business history is the latest initiative of The University of Auckland Business History Project. More >>
Tobacco Issues on agenda at University symposium
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 2:52 pm | Auckland University
Robust debate about tobacco control policies is expected at "Towards a smokeless society" - a symposium taking place at The University of Auckland later this month. More >>
Finding a virus is not all bad news
Monday, 6 March 2006, 2:28 pm | Auckland University
Questions around the movement and population size changes of Kiwis, Tuatara and other New Zealand wildlife over the past hundred years have been continually studied by conservationists and scientists. It now seems the answers might all be found in the ... More >>
New Director of Schools Partnership Office
Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:38 am | Auckland University
Ken Rapson, principal of Mount Roskill Grammar School, has been appointed Director of the Schools Partnership Office at The University of Auckland. He will lead the team which recruits and provides course advice to school leavers, and be responsible ... More >>
Sending The Right Message To Tackle Obesity
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:55 pm | Auckland University
Social marketing campaigns aimed at fighting the problem of childhood obesity are missing the point and need to be much better targeted to get results, says a researcher from The University of Auckland Business School. More >>
International students introduced to Kiwi ways
Monday, 20 February 2006, 1:33 pm | Auckland University
Touch rugby is on the horizon for international students about to start at The University of Auckland. More >>
Auckland Uni celebrates notable New Zealanders
Monday, 20 February 2006, 12:49 am | Auckland University
The University of Auckland will honour seven outstanding New Zealanders in medicine, the arts, education, business and law at its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards gala dinner on Friday 3 March. More >>
Kiwi astronomers find new planet
Thursday, 26 January 2006, 8:43 am | Auckland University
New Zealand researchers from Auckland, Canterbury, Massey and Victoria Universities were part of a 12 country study that has discovered the first new planet from outside our solar system that resembles the planet Neptune. More >>
Using Exercise To Counteract Depression
Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 11:27 am | Auckland University
The potential benefits of regular activity for nearly 200 older people with depression are to be tested in a University of Auckland study that begins this month. More >>
International Property Experts On Offer
Friday, 23 December 2005, 9:45 am | Auckland University
Property professionals and investors seeking an edge have an opportunity in January to attend an Industry Day run by The University of Auckland Business School's Department of Property. The day is associated with the Twelfth Pacific Rim Real Estate Society ... More >>
Elephant Pheromones & Human's Sixth Sense
Friday, 23 December 2005, 9:44 am | Auckland University
New research into the ways animals signal each other, involving The University of Auckland, Auckland Zoo and HortResearch New Zealand, will be published this week in leading international science journal Nature. More >>
Vitamin D linked to Healthy Lungs
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 10:31 am | Auckland University
A study by researchers from The University of Auckland has shown that Vitamin D may play a role in keeping our lungs healthy. More >>
Participants needed for crebral palsy study
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 9:20 am | Auckland University
Researchers from the Department of Surgery and the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at The University of Auckland are collaborating to investigate a new hi-tech activity monitor that could identify ways to help improve the way children with cerebral ... More >>
Yes maths is important – just ask Dan Brown
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 12:35 am | Auckland University
In the best seller The Da Vinci Code the protagonist Robert Langdon is introduced to the Fibonacci Sequence or ‘Golden Ratio’ that repeats itself in nature countless times from the concentric circles in sea shells to the disbursement of seeds in a ... More >>
Auckland Takes On World’s Best Engineering Unis
Monday, 5 December 2005, 9:12 am | Auckland University
A team of students from The University of Auckland will take on some of the world’s top engineering universities in a car race in Melbourne this week. More >>
