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Faculty of Engineering
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Where could AI lead us?
24 May 2024
Feature: Artificial intelligence offers powerful new opportunities, but also unprecedented challenges. University of Auckland AI experts talk about where the technology may lead us.
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Bryan Caldwell: taking up space with NASA
24 May 2024
Former theatre lighting designer Bryan Caldwell now manages research projects for NASA. He tells Janet McAllister how he shifted from the stage to the stars.
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James Ardern's sweet deal with Whittaker's
24 May 2024
James Ardern shifted from the US Midwest and the car industry to take up the job of Whittaker’s CEO. Janet McAllister finds out it wasn’t as big a shift as it might seem.
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Joining in The Conversation
10 May 2024
Not-for-profit news platform The Conversation is looking for more academics to publish research-based news and analysis for a mainstream audience in Aotearoa and overseas
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Engineering alum Alex Kendall’s AI start-up Wayve raises $1.7b
9 May 2024
Wayve's funding will be used to develop and launch the first “embodied AI” technology for self-driving vehicles.
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How to solve healthcare's toxic secret
9 May 2024
The anaesthetic gases released from one hospital in one year add as much greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as 500 return flights between Auckland and London.
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From long-distance hurdles to doctoral success
8 May 2024
Xichen Chen's unexpected choice to pursue a PhD came amid personal challenges that have helped to shape her engineering career.
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German foreign minister describes Space Institute as a special place
6 May 2024
On her first visit to New Zealand, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was the University of Auckland's guest at a showcase on research and innovation in the space sector.
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Pacific secondary students on the road to university
3 May 2024
While most secondary students spent the last holidays relaxing, Pacific students from the Manawatū took a road trip to Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
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AI’s huge potential to improve healthcare
29 April 2024
Opinion: Dr Reza Shahamiri describes some of the ways AI is transforming healthcare services to be more accessible and affordable, and how it's going to get even better.
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New Zealand's drinking water safe from harmful ‘forever chemicals’
24 April 2024
New research shows low levels of PFAS in New Zealand’s drinking water – but caution is urged.
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Students fuelled by McLaren internships
22 April 2024
An internship programme with McLaren Racing in the UK is exposing engineering students to leading-edge thinking and technology in areas like composites and control systems which will ultimately benefit the local economy.