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Robert Ellis (1929-2021): committed to biculturalism and ethical arts practice

30 November 2021

The University community is saddened to learn of the loss of one of its most important former staff, Emeritus Professor Robert Ellis, who died on 23 November in Auckland, aged 92.
Jazz students in lockdown blow teacher’s socks off

23 November 2021

If there is a silver lining to the 2021 lockdown, Dr Olivier Holland from the School of Music, has seen it in a record-breaking number of A-plus jazz music compositions by Stage 2 students this semester.
Ones to watch: meet Auckland's 40 Under 40

8 November 2021

They are the trailblazers, innovators and bright young professionals who are changing the status quo. The University of Auckland’s 40 Under 40 list for 2021 provides a glimpse into New Zealand’s rising stars and leaders.
Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses

5 November 2021

Opinion: Timothy F Welch explains how digging deep to address our massive car addiction will help us meet climate goals – and may also save local businesses.
Mark Beehre: doctor turned artist documents lives of gay men

4 November 2021

Mark Beehre's book profiles the lives of gay men living in a time when homosexuality is legal. It follows on from his book on gay men who lived in a time when it wasn't.
Kate Bell: choir director in tune with communities

4 November 2021

It took a nudge from staff in the University of Auckland School of Music to get Kate Bell where she is today – teaching singing to the masses.
Ngārara in the Raukumara

1 November 2021

A new documentary lays bare the distress and urgency felt as myrtle rust compounds an already precarious situation for threatened native species - one of the first creative projects commissioned by Toi Taiao Whakatairanga, a cross-disciplinary collaborative research project hosted by Creative Arts and Industries.
Lama Tone's inspiring story: from rugby to architecture

1 November 2021

Lama Tone was inspired by the buildings he saw all over the world as an international rugby player. Now he's an architecture lecturer who brings a Pacific lens to housing.
Opera singer and teacher appointed to NZ Opera board

27 October 2021

Dr Te Oti Rakena, senior lecturer in Vocal Studies at the School of Music, has been appointed to the board of the NZ Opera.
A new and very contemporary take on the quarter acre dream

6 October 2021

A photo of a bedroom featuring a sleeping person in bed, houseplants, and a print of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Broadacre City’ - his plan for a ‘perfect but very imperfect community’ - is this year’s winner of the Simon Devitt Prize for Photography.
Film-makers show what a former whaling village now says about whaling

4 October 2021

Ben Goldson talks to two Elam film-makers about their whaling documentary filmed in Japan and screening at the NZ International Film Festival
If collapse is inevitable, can we at least collapse with grace?

21 September 2021

A new book co-authored by Dr Emilio Garcia, School of Architecture and Planning, explores the very real possibility of collapse in the built environment, and how we can prepare for a graceful landing.

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