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News and views from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland

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Cleantech illustration by Jericho Jayme

7 November 2024

Feature: Now, more than ever, we need to develop new, ‘clean’ technologies that help create a more environmentally sustainable future. Owen Poland meets academic and alumni innovators in New Zealand’s fast-growing cleantech sector.

Sustainable impact

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Arts and culture

  • save-the-press-ai-generated-image

    8 November 2024

    Dr Gavin Ellis says, given journalism is an indispensable part of the engine that drives our democracy, more must be done to convince the public to care about it.

  • 14th century mermaid image

    1 November 2024

    From mermaids to nursemaids to 'hags', how have archetypal images of women changed since medieval times?

  • Margaret Crannigan Allan portrait

    1 November 2024

    It’s the tenth anniversary of a student prize championing excellence in musical theatre, established by long-time University of Auckland staffer Margaret Crannigan Allen.

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Business and economy

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Education and society

  • save-the-press-ai-generated-image

    8 November 2024

    Dr Gavin Ellis says, given journalism is an indispensable part of the engine that drives our democracy, more must be done to convince the public to care about it.

  • Portrait of Professor Melinda Webber dressed in black, hair up, against a background of Māori carvings.

    7 November 2024

    A focus on Māori and Pacific women and girls connects this year’s successful Marsden grant recipients from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work.

  • Associate Professor Lisa Uperesa and Dr Marcia Leenen-Young pictured together against a tropical background.

    7 November 2024

    Projects on the evolution of a Pacific-centred approach to research and the problem of ‘surplus’ zoo animals have won Marsden grants for the Faculty of Arts in the latest round.

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Environment

  • Cleantech illustration by Jericho Jayme

    7 November 2024

    Feature: Now, more than ever, we need to develop new, ‘clean’ technologies that help create a more environmentally sustainable future. Owen Poland meets academic and alumni innovators in New Zealand’s fast-growing cleantech sector.

  • Tui on kowhai tree in flower

    1 November 2024

    Opinion: Aotearoa New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot, defined as a global centre of high biodiversity with a high proportion of species under threat. So where was New Zealand at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia?

  • Image of orange mushrooms growing, found in New Zealand

    26 October 2024

    Opinion: Even though we have known about fungi for hundreds of years, they've only been officially recognised since 1969. But where would be without them, wonders Maj Padamsee.

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Health and medicine

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Politics and law

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Science and technology

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University news

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The Challenge

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