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Remote Temperature Device For Rest Homes A World First
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 9:38 am | University of Auckland
A matchbox-sized body sensor worn under the arm to monitor whether someone has a fever and that sends that data over very long distances has won funding to conduct clinical trials. The temperature-reading biosensor called ‘Nightingale' is designed ... More >>
University of Auckland launches te reo Māori app
Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 2:31 pm | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is supporting the Crown's Māori language strategy Maihi Karauna with the launch of Te Kūaha, a new interactive mobile app for staff and students to understand more about te ao Māori in their work and study. More >>
Book A Date With Top Writers Online
Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 9:08 am | University of Auckland
Fans of the Auckland Writers Festival can still hear many of its big, international and local names in a new 2020 Winter Online Series, hosted by the University of Auckland’s Paula Morris. Associate Professor Morris from the Faculty of Arts will be interviewing ... More >>
Social Cohesion Threatened In Post-Covid-19 World
Monday, 4 May 2020, 6:39 am | University of Auckland
Top social scientists say New Zealand’s strong national unity during lockdown – reflected in a proliferation of teddy bears in windows and Anzac Day poppies on front lawns – is now under threat as grim new economic realities and prolonged ... More >>
Creative Resource All Ready To Go For Schools Next Week
Friday, 24 April 2020, 7:56 am | University of Auckland
A banner of children playing creatively being used by the Te Rito Toi project. In response to Covid-19, a project to support primary school teachers with a rich, arts-based resource when they return to school next week has been developed by a team at the ... More >>
The Art Goes On, With Loo Rolls
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 1:19 pm | University of Auckland
These are hard-to-describe times, but Dr Mark Harvey of the University of Auckland has explored them from the perspective of his Labrador, Lara, in a video called “Let’s Share the Ground Together”. Dr Harvey is a senior lecturer in Dance Studies at ... More >>
How The Principles Of Gamification Are Being Used In The Remote Design Programme Classroom
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 1:05 pm | University of Auckland
Staff at the new Design Programme, University of Auckland, are drawing on the principles of gamification to teach students remotely during lockdown. Evidently it’s working well for students, with online teaching sessions on the Programme attracting around ... More >>
Major Study Out On Effects Of Covid-19 Lockdown
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 10:52 am | University of Auckland
New Zealanders are proving resilient during the current lockdown but there has been a rise in levels of mental distress, according to the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS). Around 1000 New Zealanders were surveyed in the first two weeks of ... More >>
The Future Is Now: Implications Of Covid-19 For New Zealand
Friday, 17 April 2020, 7:40 am | University of Auckland
The Covid-19 crisis presents multiple, complex and ongoing challenges for New Zealand. But it also provides an opportunity to consider our place in the world, and how we operate as a country and cooperate in future, according to a discussion paper produced ... More >>
Creative design and 3D printing make the world a safer place
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 1:38 pm | University of Auckland
Engineers in the Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (the Lab) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland, have designed a simple emergency ventilator operated by an automated hand. More >>
DNA offers clues to ancient Samoan settlement
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 9:22 am | University of Auckland
Dr Ethan Cochrane and Pena of Falevao Village taking a break from identifying ancient structures in the Samoan bush Samoa experienced an exponential jump in its population around 1000 years ago and the ancestry of contemporary Samoans is relatively unique ... More >>
Crunching Big Data To Help In A Crisis
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 2:11 pm | University of Auckland
Experts from the Business School at the University of Auckland have been urgently analysing big data to assist the Ministry of Health and District Health Boards (DHBs) create a new temporary funding model for service providers to older people living ... More >>
New App Traces Contacts, Retains Privacy, Says Expert
Wednesday, 1 April 2020, 11:59 am | University of Auckland
Using digital data for contact tracing could be a powerful tool for containing the spread of COVID-19 and a new technology app in Singapore could help address fears of data privacy, says a digital data expert. Andrew Chen is a Research Fellow at ... More >>
Restless Sleep In Late Pregnancy, Lower Stillbirth Risk
Friday, 27 March 2020, 1:22 pm | University of Auckland
Restless sleep in late pregnancy is common, and researchers have now found it carries a lower risk of late stillbirth. A University of Auckland-led mega-study combined all the worldwide data from studies on sleep position and stillbirth. For the first ... More >>
Blood Pressure Meds Won’t Make COVID-19 Worse
Friday, 27 March 2020, 8:40 am | University of Auckland
Experts are urging people with high blood pressure to keep taking their medications as usual during the COVID-19 epidemic. Some patients have been expressing concerns to doctors after the idea started circulating on social media that two common hypertension ... More >>
University Of Auckland Teaching Free Week 23-27 March 2020
Friday, 20 March 2020, 11:06 am | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland has advised staff and students that next week (23 to 27 March) will be a Teaching Free Week, in which teaching across the University will be suspended. Students will not be required to come into campus (although are free ... More >>
Brain Tissue Increases After Giving Birth - Study
Thursday, 19 March 2020, 9:49 am | University of Auckland
A new study has found that grey matter in women’s brains increases after they give birth and researchers say that’s good news for mothers because previous studies have found that grey matter decreases during pregnancy. An international research ... More >>
The subtle ways Spotify tells us what to listen to
Monday, 16 March 2020, 11:55 am | University of Auckland
Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music offer instant access to more music that, a few years ago, we wouldn’t have thought possible, but researchers have revealed the subtle ways such platforms influence and even control ... More >>
Morphine Change Could Lead To More Heroin Overdoses - Experts
Friday, 13 March 2020, 8:48 am | University of Auckland
A Change In The Supply Of Pharmaceutical Morphine Could Inadvertently Lead To More Overdoses By People Who Inject Opioids Such As Morphine And Heroin, A University Of Auckland Expert Warns. Due To Funding Changes, Slow-release Oral ... More >>
Survey Probes Attitudes To Pest Control
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 1:19 pm | University of Auckland
Scientists have created an online survey based on new research to test how New Zealanders feel about pest management and want as many people as possible to take part. The survey, a research project supported by senior scientists at Auckland and Victoria ... More >>
