Auckland Science

Auckland — A Year 13 from Saint Kentigern College scooped top prizes at the 2023 NIWA South and East Auckland Science Fair for her project "Crab-a-dabra!".

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Auckland City — Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce is encouraging the public to visit the Science in the City exhibition which opens tomorrow on Auckland’s waterfront.

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Auckland City —   New Zealanders will have the extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June.

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North Shore City — A Massey University professor who uses mathematics to model the drift of ash from volcanic eruptions as well as solving industrial problems has just been awarded the highest Australasian accolade for maths in industry.

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Auckland City — The Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) announced today $1,864,982 in funding tomedical researchers in Auckland in its December 2011 grant round.

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Auckland City — Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime Minister, will help kick-start Auckland’s development into a major Asia-Pacific innovation hub when he speaks in Auckland next week.

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Auckland — Bringing biochemical rigour to questions in evolutionary biology, which can have implications for medical issues such as antibiotic resistance, has earned a Massey University scientist a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.

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Auckland City — University of Canterbury academic Dr Travis Horton has been appointed a director of the Fulbright New Zealand Board.

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Auckland — For immediate release Many commonplace New Zealand health conditions can be resolved in days, says a visiting medical expert.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland continues to be the best performing New Zealand university in subject rankings released by QS World University Rankings®.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland has been ranked in the top 50 in the world and first in New Zealand in life sciences subjects.

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Auckland City — The first of an exciting new class of anti-cancer drugs designed in New Zealand will proceed to clinical development in the United States, following the announcement today of a deal between Proacta Incorporated and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.

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Auckland City — International gurus of asthma and allergy research arrive in New Zealand later this month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the world’s largest collaborative study undertaken with children.

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Auckland City — The University of Auckland’s Centre for Infrastructure Research set up to help tackle New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges is being launched today in Wellington.

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Auckland — Software developed in partnership with The Smithsonian Institute, UC Berkeley and others to be made freely available for ‘DNA Barcoding’ projects.

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Auckland — A million dollar donation has enabled The University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research to establish the country’s first Biobank for brain disease.

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Auckland City — The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) is offering a new prize at the 2010 Medical Sciences Conference, which honours the lifetime achievements of Emeritus Professor John Carman.

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Auckland City — Stroke victims may soon know the relief of having a definitive prediction of their chances of recovery, according to research conducted by the University of Auckland.

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Auckland — The ARC has reaffirmed its dissatisfaction with the management of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in New Zealand, and has resolved to continue to seek better outcomes for local communities.

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Auckland — More than thirty years after leaving Calcutta, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Auckland has received two of India’s highest honours for ex-residents.

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Auckland City — A special “gym” designed by University of Auckland student Casey Jowers to exercise human bone cells in the laboratory could help to develop better drug therapies for osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

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