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University Of Auckland In International Top 50 In 12 Subjects
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 7:00 am | University of Auckland
Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland celebrates everyone involved in the most recent QS Subject Rankings, which sees 12 subjects in the Top 50 in the world. This compares with 10 in Top 50 last year. The rankings reinforce the University’s ... More >>
Real World Recognition For Research In Augmented Reality And Empathic Computing
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 11:28 am | University of Auckland
Professor Mark Billingshurst of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been inducted into the SIGCHI Academy of the ACM SIGCHI, which he describes as being “the equivalent of being awarded an Oscar for research in human computer interfaces”. ... More >>
A Dog’s Life: The Fate Of Māori Kurī
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 4:37 pm | University of Auckland
The close relationship between humans and dogs in island Polynesia and Aotearoa New Zealand is the focus of new research from the University of Auckland. In ancient Polynesian societies dogs were companions, cooperative hunters and sometimes competitors, ... More >>
Study Analyses Brains Of Teenage First XV Over Season, To Better Understand Concussion
Monday, 4 April 2022, 12:12 pm | University of Auckland
Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) are using advanced biomechanical modelling to understand the impact of concussion in a study involving teenage rugby players in the Gisborne area over the course of a season. The study is being led ... More >>
How Did Life On Earth Begin? University Of Auckland Scientist Will Test A Novel Theory
Monday, 4 April 2022, 10:20 am | University of Auckland
University of Auckland biophysicist Dr Peter Wills and colleagues have $2 million to test a theory on the origins of life on Earth. Nearly four billion years ago, Earth was wildly volcanic with an orange sky, green seas, and meteorites crashing ... More >>
Can We Have Our Fish And Eat It Too?
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 10:24 am | University of Auckland
Overfishing threatens a global catch that peaked in 1996 but perhaps a solution is possible. The world can protect biodiversity and threatened species and also catch enough fish for humans to eat if nations cooperate on where fishing takes place, ... More >>
Recognition For Liggins Research Into Newborns With Low Blood Sugars
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 2:19 pm | University of Auckland
Two papers in the same edition of JAMA plus an editorial recognises importance of Liggins research into newborns with hypoglycaemia. Newborns at risk of brain damage from low blood sugar levels are increasingly safe, as research at the University ... More >>
Team Working On Superbug Vaccine
Monday, 21 March 2022, 11:51 am | University of Auckland
A team of scientists is harnessing mRNA vaccine technology developed for Covid-19 to conquer a common superbug. The day after Ries Langley ’s son turned one, his knee swelled up, turning hot and red. He couldn’t put any weight on his leg and ... More >>
Drones Monitor Manta Rays In University Of Auckland Student's Pioneering Study
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 11:15 am | University of Auckland
How big is that manta ray? Drones give the answer in a pioneering study by University of Auckland postgraduate student Edy Setyawan. Setyawan got the idea during fieldwork in 2019 in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, as he flew drones over the giant fish. “It was ... More >>
Arts Funding Central To Improving Youth Wellbeing
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 5:56 pm | University of Auckland
Youth mental health is a stated priority for this government, but funding for young people in the arts remains piecemeal and unreliable. Dr Molly Mullen, a senior lecturer in applied theatre at the University of Auckland, says this longstanding predicament ... More >>
‘Water Only’ Call To Fill Policy Gap On Sugary Drinks
Monday, 21 February 2022, 11:45 am | University of Auckland
Water is fast becoming New Zealand’s greatest asset but its value to child health is being undermined by poor and leaky policy. Associate Professor Bodo Lang, from the Faculty of Business and Economics, explains that despite nearly two decades of ... More >>
Glub, Glub, Glub … A Library Of Sounds Of Life Underwater
Friday, 18 February 2022, 7:51 am | University of Auckland
Most people don’t know that the underwater world has dawn and dusk choruses, similar to those of the birds on land. Kina feed at those times, scraping algae off the rocks with their teeth, a feasting that is noisy because the crunching sounds are amplified ... More >>
Time To Treat All Refugees The Same In Aotearoa
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 11:49 am | University of Auckland
A damaging and unfair gap exists between how we treat two refugee groups in New Zealand and it’s time to change it, according to a new report. Co-written by Professor Jay Marlowe from the University of Auckland and Bernard Sama, chair of the Asylum ... More >>
Mental Health Disorders Warning Sign For Dementia
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 10:47 am | University of Auckland
Poor mental health in earlier life is a strong indicator of risk for later dementia, according to the results of a long-term study. A collaboration between the University of Auckland, University of Michigan and Duke University, the study looked at 1,711,386 ... More >>
Turning PPE Into Water: Sounds Like A Miracle?
Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 3:39 pm | University of Auckland
Turning non-recyclable personal protective equipment into water and vinegar could be the game-changing solution the world needs to stop tonnes of PPE being dumped daily into landfills and oceans. This miracle-sounding process has been developed ... More >>
NZ And German Researchers Partner Up In Space
Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 11:08 am | University of Auckland
Using carbon fibre to build spacecraft and laser light technology to transmit information down to Earth are two space-based projects University of Auckland researchers are working on in partnership with researchers in Germany. The projects are part of a ... More >>
Bioengineers Use Artificial Intelligence To Transform Hip Surgery
Friday, 11 February 2022, 9:28 am | University of Auckland
Formus Labs, a company that grew out of research done at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), is set to transform orthopaedic surgery, with the world’s first automated 3D pre-operative planner for joint replacements. Formus Labs has recently ... More >>
Paracetamol During Pregnancy: A Link With Childhood Depression?
Friday, 11 February 2022, 6:31 am | University of Auckland
Could there be a link between mothers taking paracetamol during pregnancy and later signs of depression in some of their children? A University of Auckland study shows a “small but significant” statistical association. Professor Karen Waldie and ... More >>
From 'Nothing' To 'Everything'
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 8:02 pm | University of Auckland
A large-scale art work featuring the word ‘everything’ has lit up the 110-metre-long, 13-metre-high light wall on Bledisloe wharf’s The Lightship, an installation by artist and acting head of Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, ... More >>
Survey Asks Kiwis To Express Vaccine Preferences
Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 5:58 pm | University of Auckland
As part of an effort to combat misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, a team of researchers at the University of Auckland is asking Kiwis what they need to know about vaccines and their preferences for vaccination. As part of an effort to combat misinformation ... More >>
