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Stop smoking competition a tight race
Friday, 31 August 2012, 11:24 am | University of Auckland
The day of reckoning has arrived for 15 competing teams of smokers who took on the challenge three months ago to be smokefree by the end of August. More >>
Local cancer drug to have first clinical trial in US and NZ
Thursday, 30 August 2012, 10:46 am | University of Auckland
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer “stealth” drug invented in New Zealand, to move forward to human clinical trials through its approval of an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for the drug. More >>
Excellence in drug discovery attracts Asian science leaders
Friday, 24 August 2012, 11:03 am | University of Auckland
A large delegation of science leaders from Asian industrial capitals is today visiting the Maurice Wilkins Centre to build relationships that will link New Zealand inventors into innovation networks within Asia. More >>
MAI ki Tāmaki relaunch
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 12:36 pm | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
MAI ki Tāmaki, a programme which supports and mentors Māori doctoral students at The University of Auckland, is being re-launched on Monday, August 27th at Waipapa Marae. More >>
Exploration of visual language wins award
Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 4:56 pm | University of Auckland
Master of Fine Arts student Andre Sampson has won this year’s Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship for watercolour painting with a series of work that explores visual language. More >>
Exploration of visual language wins award
Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 4:56 pm | University of Auckland
Master of Fine Arts student Andre Sampson has won this year’s Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship for watercolour painting with a series of work that explores visual language. More >>
New Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Board Appointments
Monday, 20 August 2012, 9:49 am | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is delighted to announce two new appointments to its Board – Traci Houpapa and Associate Professor Pare Keiha. More >>
How to Talk with Voices
Thursday, 16 August 2012, 10:26 am | University of Auckland
The 8th MAKING SENSE OF PSYCHOSIS Conference takes place August 30-31 at the University of Auckland. This year marks the first joint conference between the Australian and New Zealand branches of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches ... More >>
Douglas Wright: Body of Work
Tuesday, 14 August 2012, 10:31 am | University of Auckland
The work of one of the country’s best known dancers and choreographers will be profiled later this month in a retrospective show at Auckland’s Gus Fisher Gallery. The exhibition Douglas Wright: Body of Work highlights Wright’s extraordinary creative ... More >>
Study to help in the treatment of gout
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 12:50 pm | University of Auckland
Researchers from The University of Auckland are embarking on a study to understand why gout, a common inflammatory arthritis, attacks certain joints. Principal Investigator Dr Justin Fernandez and Dr Kumar Mithraratne from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute ... More >>
Manufacturing in a cloud
Thursday, 9 August 2012, 12:31 pm | University of Auckland
Researchers from The University of Auckland are developing cloud manufacturing technology to make it easier for New Zealand manufacturing companies to take on bigger projects and to share resources. More >>
Building muscles while playing computer games
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 3:15 pm | University of Auckland
Researchers from The University of Auckland have developed advanced rehabilitation devices to help stroke patients strengthen their muscles while at the same time playing computer games. More >>
Exercise is medicine
Friday, 27 July 2012, 4:28 pm | University of Auckland
Physical inactivity is one of the greatest health problems of the 21st century. Although research indicates benefits from exercise in disease prevention and treatment, compliance is poor. The 2012 Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture Series, by scientists, an epidemiologist, ... More >>
NewsdeskHuman energy to power portable electronics
Monday, 23 July 2012, 10:25 am | University of Auckland
Technology created by researchers from The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), which makes it possible to convert human movement into battery power, could in the future enable people to charge their electronic devices while they walk. More >>
Speed date your favourite author
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 1:38 pm | University of Auckland
Have you ever wanted to get up close and personal with your best-loved author? Now you can at a special event to be held at the Gus Fisher Gallery at The University of Auckland, ahead of the New Zealand Post Book Awards. More >>
Samoan wins major history award
Friday, 13 July 2012, 9:52 am | University of Auckland
Associate Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa’s Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire, was last night announced the winner of the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize at the annual Australian History Association Conference in Adelaide. More >>
Free public lectures by Vice-Chancellor’s Visitors
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 2:13 pm | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts is this month hosting four Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors who will each deliver a free, one hour public lecture. The Distinguished Visitors’ public lectures will be held at The University of Auckland’s ... More >>
How Prepared Is Auckland For A Major Disaster?
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 11:57 am | University of Auckland
NewsdeskAuckland has a third of New Zealand’s population, yet how prepared are we to respond to and recover from a major disaster? What have our structural engineers learned from Christchurch? And in what ways has the media played a crucial part in ... More >>
Survey of New Zealanders’ experiences of antidepressan
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 10:12 am | University of Auckland
First survey of New Zealanders’ experiences of antidepressants 10 July 2012 The first survey to ask New Zealanders about their experiences with antidepressants has been launched by researchers from the Department of Psychology at The University ... More >>
Assoc. Professor’s Book Short-Listed For Major History Award
Thursday, 5 July 2012, 11:56 am | University of Auckland
Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire, by Associate Professor Damon Ieremia Salesa from the Centre for Pacific Studies at The University of Auckland, has been short-listed for the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize. More >>
