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Permanently temporary: the Gig Trap
Saturday, 10 November 2018, 11:43 am | University of Auckland
The first ever study to track thousands of people through different work arrangements over time has revealed that the gig track can quickly become a gig trap. More >>
Being attracted to someone else – new study launched
Friday, 9 November 2018, 10:38 am | University of Auckland
A study at the University of Auckland is exploring a topic most adults probably experience at one time or another – fancying someone other than a person they are in a relationship with. More >>
University of Auckland research attracts major funding
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 9:21 am | University of Auckland
Are microalgae responsible for putting plastic in our food? How do sharks localise sounds underwater? The rise of drug-resistant pathogens is a major global health problem but could the molecules living organisms employ to defend themselves against ... More >>
World-first virtual pregnancy wins top Marsden funding
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 9:14 am | University of Auckland
An international project to create a world-first virtual pregnant uterus has won the University of Auckland’s Bioengineering Institute top Marsden funding. More >>
Focus on Māori family well-being wins Marsden funding
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 8:43 am | University of Auckland
A project looking at how Māori families have strived for whānau ora (whānau wellbeing) across the 20th century has won $622,000 in Marsden funding. More >>
Spring Week lectures for adult learners
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 10:19 am | University of Auckland
From childhood immunisation to circular economies, Spring Week on Campus invites the public to attend a week of fascinating lectures at the University of Auckland. The annual Spring Week on Campus series is a rare opportunity to listen to, debate ... More >>
Legal scholar named Centenary Fellow (FRSNZ)
Friday, 2 November 2018, 12:10 pm | University of Auckland
Professor David V Williams has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition of his research, scholarship and the advancement of knowledge in the areas of constitutional law, colonial legal history and the Treaty ... More >>
An Enhanced Research Focus
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 4:07 pm | Nga Pae o te Maramatanga
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) - New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence has announced a comprehensive suite of nine new research platforms, which are contributing to an enhanced research focus for NPM and designed to deliver innovation in areas ... More >>
Virtual heart model could reduce risk
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 7:21 pm | University of Auckland
Virtual heart model could reduce risk of life-threatening stroke A team at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute has created a virtual heart model that could help reduce the risk of life-threatening stroke. Dr Jichao Zhao and his team have ... More >>
Space start-up wins entrepreneurship $100k challenge
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 11:13 am | University of Auckland
New satellite software being developed by University of Auckland students will simplify the process of sending satellites into space – and the space start-up has just received a $25,000 boost from the University’s entrepreneurship competition. More >>
Trade strategy hui attracts 17,000 online viewers
Monday, 22 October 2018, 9:12 am | University of Auckland
This week’s hui on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy Should Look Like at Auckland University’s Fale Pasifika attracted a remarkable 16,831 pageviews over the two days of live-streaming, according to the hui’s main organiser law ... More >>
Domestic fires can affect more than just kids’ breathing
Friday, 19 October 2018, 2:26 pm | University of Auckland
New Zealand research just published in the European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ( Allergy ) has found that smoke from domestic fires may cause not only respiratory diseases in children, but skin conditions too. More >>
Honours for a lifetime pursuit of mathematics
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 9:24 am | University of Auckland
Distinguished Professor Marston Conder of the University of Auckland has been awarded the Jones Medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi to recognise his lifetime achievement in in mathematics. More >>
Professor's electrifying journey through the gut
Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 2:23 pm | University of Auckland
Imagine watching the inside of a stomach at work: the gut walls breaking down food, transporting and mixing it in the small intestine and compacting and sorting the waste in the colon. For the last 15 years bioengineer Professor Leo Cheng has been ... More >>
University lecture tackles housing crisis head-on
Monday, 15 October 2018, 3:29 pm | University of Auckland
Frontline social housing worker Bernie Smith will look at how to restore secure housing for all New Zealanders in the Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture hosted by Faculty of Arts on October 23. More >>
Great science and good food makes million dollar business
Monday, 15 October 2018, 9:44 am | University of Auckland
A New Zealand start-up making apple, sauvignon blanc and pinot noir flour has received a $NZ1.2 million injection from the home of gastronomy, France. More >>
Top Maori academic gives Keith Sinclair Lecture
Monday, 15 October 2018, 9:33 am | University of Auckland
Māori historian, member of the Waitangi Tribunal and award-winning author, Dr Aroha Harris, will give the University of Auckland’s Keith Sinclair Memorial Lecture this week. More >>
Origins of female homosexuality
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 10:59 am | University of Auckland
Hormonal environments in the womb may help explain the evolutionary origins of female homosexuality and determine the spectrum of sexual orientation in women according to a review article published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. And arguments suggesting ... More >>
Nothing artificial about the intelligence of kiwi students
Thursday, 11 October 2018, 10:48 am | University of Auckland
Three University of Auckland students have had their advice for the New Zealand Government on artificial intelligence (AI) published in The New York Times international edition. More >>
Where will the wave hit? Predicting coastal flooding
Monday, 8 October 2018, 9:10 am | University of Auckland
Which of the world’s coral reef-fringed coastlines will become uninhabitable from wave-driven flooding? Scientists from the University of Auckland have developed an efficient and accessible tool to find out. In a paper published by Nature Communication ... More >>
