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StretchSense excels at innovation awards

Monday, 21 October 2013, 2:24 pm | University of Auckland

An Auckland company that has developed wireless soft sensors for applications in healthcare, motion capture, and human-machine interactions has won two major innovation awards. More >>

New professor to boost leukaemia research at Auckland

Monday, 21 October 2013, 11:53 am | University of Auckland

One of the world’s foremost human geneticists and leukaemia researchers, Professor Stefan Bohlander, will be researching cures for leukaemia and other blood cancers at the University of Auckland. More >>

PhD student accepted into writers’ workshop

Thursday, 17 October 2013, 2:59 pm | University of Auckland

University of Auckland student Victoria Wynne-Jones has been accepted into this year’s Michael King Writers’ Centre Residential Workshop. The Art History PhD student will spend three days immersed in the workshop topic, “Writing the Arts: The Explanatory ... More >>

Growth Hormone Study needs healthy adults in Auckland

Thursday, 17 October 2013, 2:37 pm | University of Auckland

The University of Auckland’s Human Nutrition Unit and Liggins Institute is looking for healthy adults to participate in a study on myostatin and IGF1 regulation by growth hormone in muscle. The study needs adults of all ages, sedentary or active, ... More >>

University of Auckland congratulates Eleanor Catton

Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 2:58 pm | University of Auckland

The University of Auckland congratulates novelist Eleanor Catton for winning the Man Booker prize for her novel The Luminaries at a ceremony in London today. More >>

First specialist stroke nursing course

Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 12:28 pm | University of Auckland

First specialist stroke nursing course New Zealand’s first specialist stroke nursing course will be underway next year for registered nurses. More >>

Middle-aged Aucklanders sought for Muscle Aging Study

Monday, 14 October 2013, 7:43 pm | University of Auckland

University of Auckland’s Human Nutrition Unit and Liggins Institute is looking for middle-aged men to participate in a study looking at the potential positive effects of dairy products on muscle health. More >>

Aucklanders sought for Kiwifruit study

Monday, 14 October 2013, 7:42 pm | University of Auckland

University of Auckland’s Human Nutrition Unit is looking for men and women to participate in a study looking at the potential positive effects of kiwifruit extracts on the digestive system. More >>

Seminar will discuss new pathways in teacher education

Monday, 14 October 2013, 3:18 pm | University of Auckland

Professor Pam Grossman of Stanford University’s School of Education believes that teacher education should be organised around the core practices of teaching. Professor Grossman will present a seminar on the changing ways teachers are taught to teach. More >>

Vitamin D supplements not needed by healthy adults

Sunday, 13 October 2013, 11:06 am | University of Auckland

The widespread use of vitamin D supplements to prevent osteoporosis in healthy adults is not necessary, according to a study by one of New Zealand’s leading medical scientists. More >>

Engineering student awarded for Cambridge doctoral studies

Thursday, 10 October 2013, 4:29 pm | University of Auckland

Outstanding engineering student, Alex Kendall, has been awarded a prestigious four year Woolf Fisher Scholarship to further his study of mechatronics at the University of Cambridge. More >>

An inside look at "Healthy Conversations" training

Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 1:30 pm | University of Auckland

An inside look at how a successful family and ‘early-years’ child health workforce training programme was rolled out in the UK will be provided to attendees at a Gravida-hosted lecture on 21 October 2013, Auckland. More >>

Korean Studies in Auckland receives million dollar funding

Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:37 pm | University of Auckland

The Korean Wave, including Psy’s K-Pop hit Gangham Style, is already boosting the popularity of Korean culture in New Zealand. Now the Korean language and culture programme at the University of Auckland is to be enhanced thanks to a boost in funding ... More >>

Songwriter winner shows future of music in good hands

Monday, 7 October 2013, 5:17 pm | University of Auckland

Popular Music student Jamie Moana was named the University of Auckland Songwriter of the Year 2013 at a sell-out event held at the Maidment Theatre on Thursday night. More >>

University of Auckland to offer free online courses

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 5:25 pm | University of Auckland

The University of Auckland, New Zealand’s leading tertiary institution is to offer free online courses open to students around the world. In the initiative announced this week, the University will partner with FutureLearn, a UK-based consortium founded ... More >>