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Dip in diversity at equator
Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 11:33 am | University of Auckland
New research shows that instead of marine biodiversity being highest at the equator as widely expected, it actually dips there. While previous work at the University of Auckland suggested this was due to global warming, the latest study finds the ... More >>
Are you sure that’s the right way?
Monday, 25 May 2020, 11:13 am | University of Auckland
Satellite tracking of whales migrating from Australia and New Zealand to summer feeding grounds shows some southern right whales or tohorā are travelling in the opposite direction to what scientists expected. More >>
Plugging The Gaps: Hundreds Of Devices Delivered To University Students
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 3:51 pm | University of Auckland
When University of Auckland students headed home for an unprecedented semester studying remotely, many found themselves without access to a computer. Over the past eight weeks the University has coordinated a major IT relief effort to ensure all students ... More >>
Uncovering the migration secrets of whales
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 11:28 am | University of Auckland
Genetic analysis of skin samples from southern right whales at feeding grounds at South Georgia Island in the southwest Atlantic Ocean shows the whales that gather there are more closely related to those in South America than to those in South Africa, ... More >>
New Zealand’s Place In The World: The Implications Of COVID-19
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 6:17 am | University of Auckland
New Zealand needs to leverage its safe, strong reputation and unique position of being COVID-19-free for its economic advantage, say experts in a new paper that examines the effect of the pandemic on our international standing. 'New Zealand’s place ... More >>
Business Student Interns For UK Company From Comfort Of Home
Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 10:47 am | University of Auckland
A University of Auckland business student is one of six selected worldwide for a virtual internship to gain work experience without leaving the house. Elizabeth Ejiwale, who is in her final year of a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in international business ... More >>
Raising The Bar Is Virtually Back
Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 2:27 pm | University of Auckland
While pubs and watering holes begin to open, the University of Auckland is taking its Raising the Bar series online to safely reach bigger crowds. ‘Raising the Bar – Home Edition’ is a live, refreshed series of talks featuring some of the most ... More >>
Student Venture Aims To Bring Automation To Home Builders
Friday, 8 May 2020, 1:45 pm | University of Auckland
A group of engineering and science students who met during a free University of Auckland venture development programme run last summer, are preparing to take their building automation ideas to the world. Nikau Robotics is utilising leading-edge ... More >>
The Fijian Coup 20 Years On: How Ordinary People Coped With Chaos
Friday, 8 May 2020, 11:34 am | University of Auckland
An vivid personal account of the 2000 Fijian coup from the viewpoint of the Indo-Fijian community is being republished this month to mark the coup’s 20th anniversary. State of Suffering (Cornell University Press, 2008) by University of Auckland anthropologist ... More >>
Study to explore the impact of Covid-19 lockdown on children
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 12:46 pm | University of Auckland
The country’s largest longitudinal study is about to launch a new research project to discover how the Covid-19 lockdown has affected children in Aotearoa New Zealand. More >>
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 >>
Online Digital Māori Language Portal Launched
Friday, 1 May 2020, 5:42 pm | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
Tomokanga Rauemi Reo Māori , is a new online digital Māori language portal which was developed out of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga's Te Whare Matihiko o Te Reo Māori Foundational Research Project led by Professor Tania Ka'ai, the late Professor John ... 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 >>
