Feature Article
17 October 2025
The University's first ever Repair Cafe has shown a strong appetite on campus for fixing items and shifting away from throwaway culture.
Sustainable impact
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20 October 2025
Half a century has passed since marine scientists won the battle to establish a marine reserve around Te Hāwere-a-Maki/Goat Island, north of Auckland.
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20 October 2025
The new material combines multiple metals into one to store lithium more efficiently.
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17 October 2025
From the Southern Alps to Milford Sound, dramatic landscapes take our breath away; they might also make us rethink our next purchase.
Arts and culture
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14 October 2025
Ngarino Ellis is the first Māori professor of art history in Aotearoa. Her inaugural lecture is on 15 October.
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13 October 2025
Friends pay tribute to former art history lecturer Liz Eastmond: scholar, fierce advocate for New Zealand women artists and tireless activist for Palestine.
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10 October 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Māori Land March with a new exhibition.
Business and economy
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17 October 2025
From the Southern Alps to Milford Sound, dramatic landscapes take our breath away; they might also make us rethink our next purchase.
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17 October 2025
An AI tool designed to support fertility treatments has taken top honours in the Velocity $100k Challenge, alongside start-ups in space optics and live sports gaming.
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10 October 2025
Analysis: Jobseeker changes turn young adults into dependent children – and squeeze households further, writes Susan St John.
Education and society
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17 October 2025
The University's first ever Repair Cafe has shown a strong appetite on campus for fixing items and shifting away from throwaway culture.
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15 October 2025
A project from the Design Programme is empowering girls in New Zealand and Sri Lanka to see themselves in technology careers.
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9 October 2025
Young people in New Zealand have started to think about their entire lives as a health project, a new book by a University of Auckland anthropologist has revealed.
Te ao Māori
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16 October 2025
New research, from exploring Māori self-determination in social services to tackling barriers in welfare and tenancy law, is being supported by the Borrin Foundation.
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16 October 2025
University of Auckland graduate Dr Kara Beckford found herself showered with praise from complete strangers after a mishap pushed her into the public eye.
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14 October 2025
Ngarino Ellis is the first Māori professor of art history in Aotearoa. Her inaugural lecture is on 15 October.
Health and medicine
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21 October 2025
Neuroscientist Dr Helen Murray has research news you can use: delay children's involvement in contact sport until they are older.
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20 October 2025
Genetics, gut bugs, new drugs and surgery – how groundbreaking research is changing how we understand and treat one of our most intractable health problems.
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17 October 2025
Aotearoa celebrates Niue Language Week 19 – 25 October. Its theme is a powerful call to action: ‘Fakatapunu, Ofania, mo e Fakaaoga e Vagahau Niue! Elevate the language, cherish it as a taoga (treasure) and use it every day!'
Politics and law
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17 October 2025
Opinion: The No Kings protests in the US aims to show that power and authority to govern belong to ‘We the People’, not a self-appointed monarch, but will they make a difference? Jennifer Frost says they will.
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16 October 2025
New research, from exploring Māori self-determination in social services to tackling barriers in welfare and tenancy law, is being supported by the Borrin Foundation.
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10 October 2025
Opinion: Nobuki Tamashita reflects on Japan's return to nationalism, with Sanae Takaichi winning the leadership election of the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Science and technology
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20 October 2025
Half a century has passed since marine scientists won the battle to establish a marine reserve around Te Hāwere-a-Maki/Goat Island, north of Auckland.
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20 October 2025
The new material combines multiple metals into one to store lithium more efficiently.
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16 October 2025
University of Auckland graduate Dr Kara Beckford found herself showered with praise from complete strangers after a mishap pushed her into the public eye.
University news
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15 October 2025
A quarter of the country's leading researchers hail from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, in an international analysis of the world's top 2 percent of scientists.
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9 October 2025
A new owner has been found for the old UBIQ bookstore and Campus Books will be opening its doors this month.
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9 October 2025
The University remains No 1 in Aotearoa New Zealand and is ranked 156th globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026.
The Challenge
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21 October 2025
Sir Richard Faull, founder of the Centre for Brain Research is one of the country's most eminent scientists. On his 80th year, we celebrate his journey to explore the human brain.
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9 October 2025
The real story behind scientific 'breakthroughs' is strong fundamental research, hard slog and a little bit of serendipity.
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6 October 2025
As AI tools like MidJourney churn out striking art, the core question remains: when the spark comes from prompts and past data, is it creation - or just clever theft?
