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Outstanding talent on display at Elam Graduate Show
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 1:09 pm | University of Auckland
Auckland art lovers will be able to view the work of a new generation of artists and glimpse the future of contemporary art at the annual Elam Graduate Show. More >>
Visiting Professor debates legal and illegal drugs
Monday, 18 November 2013, 3:24 pm | University of Auckland
Leading scientist and former British Government drugs advisor Professor David Nutt is visiting the University of Auckland’s Centre for Addiction Research in December. More >>
Student’s documentary wins accolades in Beijing
Monday, 18 November 2013, 12:22 pm | University of Auckland
A University of Auckland student’s personal journey to the country of her birth has become an award winning film. Ghazaleh Golbakhsh’s film Iran in Transit won the Outstanding International Student Film Award at the 12th Annual International ... More >>
Faculty’s Marae celebrates uniting Campus and community
Friday, 15 November 2013, 3:56 pm | University of Auckland
Thirty years ago on a misty morning hundreds of people witnessed the opening of one of Auckland’s first Marae on a tertiary institution. Now that Marae, Tutahi Tonu Wharenui on the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education campus is celebrating ... More >>
Changing direction by degrees
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 4:12 pm | University of Auckland
Many people dream of changing their life's direction, but few actually do. An exception is student John Mead who has swapped his life caring for and treating animals, for the life of an artist. More >>
University of Auckland academics take top science prizes
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 4:13 pm | University of Auckland
Four University of Auckland academics have won three of the 2013 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes including the main science prize, and those for science media communications and the McDiarmid emerging scientist. More >>
Graduate’s film will uncover Auckland’s forgotten lava caves
Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 1:15 pm | University of Auckland
Auckland-based film-maker Gemma Duncan is directing a new short-form documentary about one of Auckland’s unknown secrets – lava caves. Gemma, who is a recent graduate of the University of Auckland FTVMS Masters Programme (2011), has secured ... More >>
Research results in big savings for cancer treatment
Monday, 11 November 2013, 3:15 pm | University of Auckland
An intervention to counter the neurotoxic effects of a chemotherapy treatment for cancer has been withdrawn after research showed it was ineffective. This resulted in big savings in the cost of the intervention and in treatment time by nurses, at ... More >>
University staff member’s documentary to screen on TV3
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 7:00 pm | University of Auckland
Peter Simpson of the University of Auckland’s Film, Television and Media Studies (FTVMS) Department will have his latest documentary, High School, screen on TV3 on Monday 11 November at 7:30pm. The documentary, co-directed with Luke Wheeler, was ... More >>
Sustained excellence teaching award to addictions expert
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 4:54 pm | University of Auckland
Associate Professor Peter Adams has received the 2013 University of Auckland Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching. More >>
History of Pacific people drives busy artist
Friday, 1 November 2013, 2:39 pm | University of Auckland
Artist Lana Lopesi has a lot on her plate. The 21 year–old Henderson resident, has an exhibition currently on at Artstation as well as being busy preparing her final-year show to complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) degree at the University ... More >>
Germany and New Zealand collaborate on high tech research
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 5:39 pm | University of Auckland
A joint New Zealand-Germany workshop to discuss ways of collaborating on research and educational programmes in advanced mechatronics is underway in Auckland this week. More >>
Bioengineering innovation wins top SPARK award
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 5:33 pm | University of Auckland
A device for measuring human motion took top prize at the 10th annual Spark entrepreneur competition recently. More >>
Poet’s latest verses a journey of loss and triumph
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 2:00 pm | University of Auckland
Poet Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh’s second book of poetry Dark Sparring, complete with a CD of the verses put to music by Tim Page and recorded in the University of Auckland’s Arts faculty studios, will be launched this Friday. More >>
Auckland celebrates $17.8 million success in Marsden Fund
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 4:39 pm | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is celebrating the success of thirty five of its researchers and research groups, who have won $17.8 million in the prestigious Marsden Fund round, amounting to thirty per cent of the total awarded this year. More >>
Auckland’s landscapes key to unlocking city’s history
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 2:34 pm | University of Auckland
Writing a history of a town usually involves studying people and events. But PhD student Lucy Mackintosh is writing a history of Auckland by studying the city's landscapes. More >>
Young chemist bound for Cambridge to study renewable energy
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 11:22 am | University of Auckland
Jane Leung, an Honours student at the University of Auckland’s School of Chemical Sciences, is bound for the United Kingdom next year to begin her PhD as one of three 2014 Woolf Fisher Scholars at Cambridge. More >>
International recognition for patient safety
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 3:12 pm | University of Auckland
One of New Zealand’s most respected anaesthesiologists, Professor Alan Merry, has received international recognition for his work in patient safety. More >>
Eliminating torture and the ill-treatment of detainees
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 10:26 am | University of Auckland
An international framework for eliminating or reducing torture and the ill-treatment of detainees will be discussed by the Honourable Justice Goddard at a human rights forum on November 6. She will talk about OPCAT (the United Nations Convention Against ... More >>
World class research into pancreatitis earns award
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 10:20 am | University of Auckland
Outstanding research into the management of acute pancreatitis by the Pancreas Research Group at the University of Auckland has earned the Royal Society’s 2013 Hamilton Memorial Prize. More >>
