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Economists Moot Bold Income Tax Plan
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 11:45 am | University of Auckland
The economists attempt a politically feasible plan that maintains total welfare funding from both public and private sources, while opening up more choice and competition in the supply of healthcare services. More >>
Game Of Rivals: E-Sports Study Finds Winning Formula
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 9:21 am | University of Auckland
Their study evaluates millions of randomly formed teams in the global multiplayer game Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2). Players in DOTA 2 are frequently reshuffled into new teams, offering the chance to measure how different team compositions influence ... More >>
Project Aims To Bring Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatments To NZ
Friday, 4 July 2025, 9:20 am | University of Auckland
“Cell-based therapies are the most advanced and promising treatments for cancer," says Didsbury, who is an immunologist, committee chair at the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy, and a trustee for Ovarian Cancer Foundation NZ. More >>
Counterterrorism Watchdog Needed – Legal Expert
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 8:49 am | University of Auckland
The Legal expert argues that creating an independent review entity would enhance public understanding, facilitate evidence-based policymaking and augment existing legal and political avenues of scrutiny and oversight. More >>
A Voice At The Table: Refugee Panel Completes Successful First Term
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 12:53 pm | University of Auckland
Recently named in the King’s Birthday Honours, human rights lawyer Rez Gardi MNZM, the project director for the NZRAP Secretariat and the co-director of the University’s Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, says it’s a privilege to welcome the newly ... More >>
Selina Tusitala Marsh Appointed Inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 11:59 am | University of Auckland
The appointment, the first in the 75-year history of the Commonwealth of Nations, will run until 31 May 2027 and involve Marsh crafting original poems for flagship Commonwealth events. More >>
New Body Of Work By Yuki Kihara At Gus Fisher And Gow Langsford Galleries
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 11:32 am | Gus Fisher Gallery
At Gus Fisher Gallery, the exhibition’s title Tala o le tau is borrowed from the name of Kihara’s series, where five works are displayed alongside Angela Tiatia’s The Dark Current (2023) to address themes of climate crisis, matrilineal histories ... More >>
Study Offers Hope For Healing From Spinal Cord Injuries
Friday, 27 June 2025, 7:28 am | University of Auckland
Spinal cord injuries are currently incurable with devastating effects on people’s lives, but now a trial at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland offers hope for an effective treatment.Spinal cord injuries shatter the signal between the brain ... More >>
Hopeful New Way To Measure Human Progress
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 4:12 pm | University of Auckland
Led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and created by a group of international experts in various disciplines, the Nature Relationship Index (NRI) will track countries’ progress in three key areas. More >>
University Of Auckland’s Key Role In Global Fight To Tackle TB
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 12:41 pm | University of Auckland
The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund recently announced its latest JPY 1.4 billion (USD 10.1 million) investment focused on five R&D projects for the development of diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs for TB and malaria. More >>
University Of Auckland Retains Top NZ Spot In QS World University Rankings
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 1:34 pm | University of Auckland
The result marks a consistently positive trend in this prestigious ranking – the University was 87th in 2023, 68th in 2024, 65th in 2025 and 65th again for 2026. More >>
Aotearoa To Host World-leading Conference On Women’s Entrepreneurship
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 11:24 am | University of Auckland
Hosted by the Business School's Aotearoa Centre for Enterprising Women, the conference includes keynote talks, academic sessions, and a public-facing Impact Day on Friday 4 July, a one-day forum featuring panels on capital access, wāhine Māori leadership, ... More >>
Scientists Seek New Tests For A Cancer On The Rise
Monday, 16 June 2025, 7:18 am | University of Auckland
Womb cancer particularly affects Māori and Pacific Island women - Pacific women have one of the highest rates in the world,says Blenkiron, who is head of the University’s Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology. More >>
Statement from the Chancellor, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 4:35 pm | University of Auckland
Professor Freshwater has the full support of Council to continue leading the University until the agreed handover. More >>
Students Unveil AI Creations At University Of Auckland Hackathon
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 11:20 am | University of Auckland
The AI tools were designed and developed over five weeks to address real-world challenges facing researchers and universities in New Zealand and overseas. More >>
University Of Auckland Vice-Chancellor To Step Down In 2026
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 12:40 pm | University of Auckland
Professor Dawn Freshwater has raised the University’s profile internationally among peers in higher education and research, and alongside Prime Ministers and political leaders on overseas missions. More >>
Economists Urge Action To Prevent ‘AI Poverty Traps’
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 11:18 am | University of Auckland
The economists argue that in developing AI policies, the international community must learn from the successes and failures of foreign aid. More >>
Multiple Sclerosis Prevalence On The Sharp Increase: Study
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 3:40 pm | University of Auckland
The study found the MS prevalence rate had climbed to 96.6 per 100,000 people as of June 2022, an increase from 72.4 per 100,000 in 2006., Lead author Dr Natalia Boven, a postdoctoral fellow from the University’s COMPASS Research Centre, says. More >>
Will Robots Help Older People Stay Sharp?
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 11:09 am | University of Auckland
The study involves people aged over 65 chatting with Pepper the robot and a virtual human, while engaging in activities, such as physical exercises, cognitive games, and watching a video about mild cognitive impairment. More >>
Can We Buy Time To Save Our Native Trees?
Friday, 30 May 2025, 1:26 pm | University of Auckland
Three documentaries exploring myrtle rust and kauri dieback disease will be screened at an Eco Film Festival in Auckland on 7 June. Dr Mark Harvey from the University of Auckland will introduce three documentaries. More >>
