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Maureen Lander and the students weaving magic

1 March 2022

Renowned Māori artist Dr Maureen Lander is working alongside students from several faculties at her alma mater to create an intricate installation artwork in the University of Auckland's Engineering building.
First woman awarded Gold Medal for architecture

21 February 2022

Architect, educator, activist, ambassador and Professional Teaching Fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning, Julie Stout, has been named Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects 2021 Gold Medallist.
Life is (still) a Cabaret: Bob Fosse’s ground-breaking film, 50 years on

14 February 2022

Opinion: In the 1970s, many critics and filmgoers had given up on the movie musical. A more radical approach was needed, one that would re-imagine the material for the medium of film. Bob Fosse’s 1972 film version of the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret would turn out to be that radical revision.
From "nothing" to "everything"

10 February 2022

A large-scale art work featuring the word “everything” has lit up the 110-metre-long, 13-metre-high light wall on Bledisloe wharf’s The Lightship, an installation by artist and acting head of Elam School of Fine Arts, Fiona Jack.
Vital new voice wins big creative writing prize

9 December 2021

The first winner of the $10,000 Crystal Arts Trust Prize is Saraid de Silva, a writer on the 2020–21 cohort of the Master of Creative Writing (MCW) programme at the University of Auckland.
Major award for architect practising what he teaches

3 December 2021

Professor Anthony Hoete (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rānana) has won the International Architecture category in the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Awards 2021, for a five-storey block of houses he developed, designed and built in London.
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.
Acclaimed Māori scholar and notable filmmaker: Royal Society honours

18 November 2021

Professor Linda Waimarie Nikora and Professor Annie Goldson from the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts have both been awarded top medals from the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi.
The mysteries of taboo: a Marsden study

11 November 2021

'Taboo' is the subject of an ambitious University of Auckland study that has received funding from Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund.
Behind the scenes with the PM's Chief Science Advisor, Dame Juliet Gerrard

1 November 2021

Juliet Gerrard has brought her own style to the role of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, as a new documentary shows.
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.

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