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Royal Society Honours Māori Author & Academic Aroha Harris
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 10:24 am | University of Auckland
Dr Aroha Harris, senior lecturer in History at the University of Auckland, has been awarded the inaugural Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Researcher Award in Humanities for her substantial contributions to the award-winning Māori history, ... More >>
University of Auckland professor honoured
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 9:48 am | University of Auckland
Tracey McIntosh, Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland, has been honoured by the New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi for her ground-breaking work in advancing our understanding of the enduring social injustices that undermine ... More >>
Early Career Research Award to UA Inequality Researcher
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 9:10 am | University of Auckland
Senior Lecturer of political psychology Danny Osborne from the University of Auckland has been awarded the inaugural Te Apārangi early career research award in social sciences from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. More >>
Malfoy the wasp no longer unknown to Science
Monday, 9 October 2017, 9:49 am | University of Auckland
It’s one of our least-loved insects, with a particularly gruesome reproductive technique, but University of Auckland doctoral student Tom Saunders is on a mission to rescue our native wasps from their bad name. It’s one of our least-loved insects, ... More >>
Māori academic receives Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
Friday, 6 October 2017, 10:43 am | University of Auckland
When Associate Professor Melinda Webber was told she had been awarded a 2017 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society she couldn’t believe it. More >>
Free happy texts at Late Night Art
Thursday, 5 October 2017, 2:55 pm | University of Auckland
During ArtWeek, look out for a small wooden pyramid, housing an artist and his mobile phone. Called Generation Text, the work by Matt Liggins from the University of Auckland, is an interactive technology-based performance that highlights the impact our increasing ... More >>
Progesterone does not prevent preterm birth or complications
Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 8:43 am | University of Auckland
An increasingly popular hormonal “treatment” for pregnant women with a history of preterm birth does not work, a major new international study shows. More >>
$1 million given for new Rhodes-style scholarships
Monday, 2 October 2017, 8:46 am | University of Auckland
More than $1 million has been gifted to the University of Auckland Campaign For All Our Futures by Canadian philanthropist John McCall MacBain to create a one of the country’s most prestigious scholarship programmes. More >>
The Origins of Egyptian Civilisation in Whangarei
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 3:17 pm | University of Auckland
Professor Simon Holdaway, a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Auckland, will speak on the people who inhabited Ancient Egypt before the Pharoahs at the Whangarei Central Library on 4 October. More >>
Husband and wife graduate same day with same degree
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 11:21 am | University of Auckland
Francesca Casu and husband Davide Zazzaro like to joke they do everything together so it’s no surprise that today they graduate from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Science with matching doctorates. More >>
Another marathon completed but this time it’s a PhD
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 11:20 am | University of Auckland
University of Auckland science graduate Charlotte Connell completes another marathon today but this time all she has to do is don cap and gown and walk on stage. More >>
First heritage conservation degree conferred
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 10:50 am | University of Auckland
Being raised in Hong Kong, the world’s fourth most densely populated area influenced the future career path of University of Auckland student Sum Yee Ling. More >>
Slow fashion in three fast minutes
Monday, 25 September 2017, 10:33 am | University of Auckland
Buying too much stuff you don’t really need? Think that $5 t-shirt is saving you money? More >>
Uni welcomes world leader in human-computer interaction
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 12:29 pm | University of Auckland
One of the world’s emerging leaders in creating human-computer interfaces will join the University of Auckland’s Bioengineering Institute to further his innovative research. More >>
McClay’s claims of economic gains from TPPA-11 discredited
Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 4:00 pm | University of Auckland
Last month, trade minister Todd McClay claimed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement minus the US (TPPA-11) could still ‘add $2.5 billion annually to our economy and eliminate costly tariffs – saving New Zealand companies $222 million each year’. More >>
3,200 students cap off studies in Spring graduation
Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 2:35 pm | University of Auckland
Record numbers of students will receive qualifications in this year’s University of Auckland Spring graduation. Some 3,240 students will graduate in person or in absentia, an increase of around 80 on last year’s number. More >>
Researchers find the key to loss of smell with Parkinson’s
Monday, 18 September 2017, 1:19 pm | University of Auckland
University of Auckland research has found an anatomical link for the loss of the sense of smell in Parkinson’s disease. The research, published in the journal Brain, is the work of academics Associate Professor Maurice Curtis, Dr Victor Dieriks, Dr ... More >>
$24,000 in prizes for innovative solutions
Monday, 18 September 2017, 11:04 am | University of Auckland
Bringing the Ports of Auckland closer to the people of Auckland is one of the winning ideas that Auckland students have generated in an innovation challenge with a total $24,000 prize pool. More >>
Growing Up Monolingual Inspired Academic To Learn Te Reo
Friday, 15 September 2017, 10:01 am | University of Auckland
An academic’s childhood growing up in a monolingual education system inspired him to learn te reo Māori as an adult, and to a research career in bilingualism. Professor Stephen May will share his story and the importance of bilingualism and his 30 years ... More >>
University of Auckland Announces School of Music Festival
Thursday, 14 September 2017, 9:24 am | University of Auckland
Always a popular event, Opera Scenes makes a rapturous return this year with a programme comprising portrayals of Maurice Ravel's fantastical fairy tale, L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Samuel Barber's micro-opera A Hand of Bridge . More >>
