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New modelling suggests green hydrogen will play a very limited role in cutting New Zealand's industrial emissions before 2050.
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With only three drug treatment courts in the country, experts are meeting in Auckland to explore how these specialist courts can save money, support recovery and reduce reoffending, particularly at a time of escalating meth-related harm.
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Where to for globalisation: cooperation, competition, or collapse? World‑leading thinkers are exploring what comes next at the first‑ever International Economics Workshop in Auckland.
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New research will explore who’s affected by New Zealand’s intensification boom, and the potential impact housing reforms are having on inequality.
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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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Artificial intelligence could deepen inequality and create ‘AI-poverty traps’ in developing nations, write economists Dr Asha Sundaram and Dr Dennis Wesselbaum in their paper ‘Economic development reloaded: the AI revolution in developing nations’.
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AUCKLAND — Operating like a spell checker for toxic language, a new tool flags potentially harmful messages before they are sent, encouraging users to reconsider their words.
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AUCKLAND CITY — This year, a cutting-edge agritech solution designed to benefit the health of cows took out first place in the Velocity $100k Challenge.
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AUCKLAND — A new study emphasises the need for tailored approaches that balance migration’s economic and social complexities.
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In light of Mental Health Awareness week from 23-29 September, a new study offers insight into how social media became a lifeline for mental health-related conversations during the pandemic.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Are customers ready to embrace facial recognition payment technology? A new study explores.
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AUCKLAND CITY — As countries including Aotearoa New Zealand embrace renewable energy production, a recent study sheds light on some overlooked impacts of this transition.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Can meditation change the way you operate online? Researchers analysed more than 60,000 Twitter posts in an attempt to find out.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Children’s human rights are being breached by an outdated Act that was designed to provide for their care, according to a journal article by law professor Carrie Leonetti.
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AUCKLAND CITY — University of Auckland researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence to evaluate the actual value of companies based on profitability, efficiency, growth, risk and more.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Following the advent of Covid-19 and the resulting shift towards working from home, rents in Auckland’s lower-density, city-fringe suburbs increased more than those in the city centre, according to a study published in the International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A massive crowd-sourced study utilising more than 25,000 questions from 186 institutions' accounting assessments has found that students outperform ChatGPT overall.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music offer instant access to more music that, a few years ago, we wouldn’t have thought possible, but researchers have revealed the subtle ways such platforms influence and even control what we listen to.
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Cycling investment has long term health benefits for Auckland, according to a recent study.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A scientist who has spent more than 40 years successfully developing anti-cancer drugs is about to face one of his biggest challenges when he cycles 200 kilometres to raise funds for cancer research next weekend.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A miniaturised data logger that can record speed and movement in the water will soon be available to help swimmers analyse their performance.
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The University of Auckland student team InfinityTek have won top honours in the New Zealand finals of the world’s largest and most prestigious, innovative software competition.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland will sponsor its first public cycling event at the end of next month, at the Auckland Domain.
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A healthy diet and not eating for two during pregnancy is vital to limit excess weight gain in both women and their babies, according to recent research.
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Cancer patients in New Zealand can look forward to individualised genetic screening to enable targeted drug treatment in future.
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Acute toxoplasmosis, an infectious disease carried by cats, may be a much more severe illness than previously understood.
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Cannabis use may double the stroke risk in young adults, according to a recent study by researchers in the Centre for Brain Research at The University of Auckland.
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Neuroscientist Chantelle Fourie has a rare opportunity to spend three months near Boston, Massachusetts, researching her dream project.
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The recurrent myth that the label “Pākehā” is derogatory is challenged by the latest findings from the large scale New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study.
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One of New Zealand’s most influential architects is to receive an award in recognition of his significant contributions to the field.
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Three doctoral students from the Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research will present their research results to an international conference in Japan next month.
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New Zealand research revealing a new mechanism for how glucose stimulates insulin secretion may provide a new explanation for how a gene that makes people more susceptible to diabetes – called TCF7L2 – actually contributes to the disease.
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An exhibition on at the Gus Fisher Gallery, which combines art and science, will give the public a rare chance to view matter up close.
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Seventeen associate professors at The University of Auckland have been promoted to professor.
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Claims that most species will go extinct before they can be discovered have been debunked in the latest issue of Science, by researchers from The University of Auckland, Griffith University, and the University of Oxford.
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The National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, at The University of Auckland is delighted to announce that Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Aitken-Rose has been appointed Head of the School of Architecture and Planning for a three and a half year term which commenced on 1 January 2013.
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A large international study led from The University of Auckland has shown that an increased risk of severe asthma, eczema and rhinitis in adolescents and children is associated with eating fast food three or more times a week.
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Renowned New Zealand author and Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology, Dame Anne Salmond from The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Arts is one of three finalists in the New Zealander of the Year Awards.
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A study conducted by a scientist at The University of Auckland with colleagues at the Oregon Health and Science University in the United States has resulted in findings with the potential to prevent or reverse serious disabilities in children born prematurely.
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A study by Lynnette Ferguson, Professor of Nutrition at The University of Auckland, has shown that a change in diet can be effective in reducing inflammation over a period of just six weeks in healthy New Zealanders.
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Rosslyn Noonan, former Chief Commissioner for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, has been appointed the first Visiting Fellow with The New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice at the University of Auckland's Law School.
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Research in the iconic, and some say maligned, New Zealand weta is challenging ideas about how a large group of insects including crickets and katydids hear, and has revealed an unexpected similarity to whale hearing.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Social research that, by chance, was underway in New Zealand at the time of the devastating 2011 Christchurch earthquake is providing insight into age-old questions about the role of religious faith in a crisis.
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A world without asthma is the ultimate vision of the Global Asthma Network (GAN), launched last week at the University of Auckland.
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The Liggins Institute of The University of Auckland announced today that it will receive funding through the Achieving Healthy Growth program within the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.
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A quartet formed only five months ago has won a $50,000 international scholarship to travel and perform in the UK.
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The New Zealand Association of Scientists has this week awarded the Science Communicators Award for 2012 to Dr Siouxsie Wiles from The University of Auckland.
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The first anthology of New Zealand literature bringing together fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose into one volume was launched at The University of Auckland yesterday.
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The University of Auckland is delighted that 2012 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes have been awarded to conservation scientist Dr James Russell and to school student Hannah Ng for research conducted at the University.
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The University of Auckland is celebrating the success of its researchers who received seven medals at the Science Honours Dinner last night, 21 November, including the top award.
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Research and innovation in New Zealand’s most valuable export industry received a significant boost today with the signing of an agreement between The University of Auckland, industry-good body DairyNZ, farmer cooperative LIC (Livestock Improvement Corporation) and New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute AgResearch.
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The University of Auckland’s Dr Jessie Jacobson and Dr Nicholas Rattenbury are amongst ten top researchers to receive prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowships.
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A book to be launched this week at The University of Auckland takes an entirely new perspective on issues of violence towards women, and is therefore able to offer insights that readers will not have encountered before.
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A new international network, led from The University of Auckland, will for the first time monitor the efforts of governments and the food industry to prevent obesity.
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The University of Auckland is celebrating the successes of three Pacific Island students following the announcement of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards this week.
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At least one third of the species living in our oceans, and perhaps up to two thirds, are unknown to science according to the work of an international research group published online today in Current Biology.
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The world’s rarest whale, the spade-toothed beaked whale, has been sighted for the first time according to scientists from The University of Auckland.
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Elam School of Fine Arts graduate and current Doctoral candidate Kate Newby has won New Zealand’s most prestigious art award, the $50,000 Walters Prize.
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The work of our top up-and-coming artists will be on view to the public for one weekend in November when final-year students from The University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts showcase their talents.
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Twenty three research groups from across The University of Auckland have been awarded a total of $14.7 million in the prestigious annual Marsden Fund round.
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Researchers from The University of Auckland hope to create a new and more inclusive frame to view art through by undertaking a written history of Māori art and artists.
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In certain situations animals can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions, according to research from The University of Auckland’s School of Psychology.
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When 16 year-old Terry Morrison leaves high school he wants to be a dancer.
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Professor Reinhard Klette from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Auckland has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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NORTHLAND — Expatrius Blend of 8, 2010, from First Growth Ltd’s Waiheke Island vineyard won both trophies at the 2012 Upper North Island Wine Challenge (UNIWC) awards dinner at Old Government House on Saturday evening.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland's tuition fees for domestic students will rise by 4 percent for 2013.
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CHRISTCHURCH — A city made of light will be constructed for one night transforming Gloucester Street, a recently opened section of the red zone, in Christchurch.
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An exhibition showcasing the architectural career of Ian Athfield arrives in Auckland next week.
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The University of Auckland took out the Overall Innovation Award at the recent 2012 Microsoft Tertiary ICT Innovation Awards in Christchurch.
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The University of Auckland has raised $202.9 million as a result of one of New Zealand’s most ambitious and successful philanthropic fundraising campaigns.
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The University of Auckland has once more been ranked as the top university in New Zealand in the latest 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings this week.
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University of Auckland Distinguished Professor Marston Conder has been selected to join the inaugural group of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
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Downtown Auckland will take on a celebratory air next week as thousands of graduates and their families converge for The University of Auckland’s Spring Graduation to be held Tuesday 2nd October at Aotea Centre’s ASB Theatre.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland congratulates the winners of this year’s Excellence in Equity Awards and acknowledges all those who submitted applications.
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Scientists at The University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research have succeeded in converting human skin cells directly into immature brain cells (or neural precursor cells).
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Popular Music student Sam Springett has won The University of Auckland 2012 Songwriter of the Year competition.
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Researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) have accurately mapped the patterns of abnormal gastric electrical activity that occurs during gastroparesis, a debilitating stomach condition.
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New Zealand will for the first time host the annual meeting of the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network that produces high quality, independent information to help medical practitioners, consumers and policy makers with their healthcare decisions.
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A New Zealand-designed compound that shows promise against treatment-resistance tuberculosis (TB) has been selected as a drug candidate by international non-profit drug developer the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance).
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The University of Auckland has entered into a conditional agreement to purchase the 5.2ha former Lion Breweries site in Newmarket, in what is potentially its most significant property acquisition in a generation.
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The University of Auckland has again been ranked internationally as New Zealand’s leading university in the latest rankings published this week by QS World University Rankings.
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The National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries’ (NICAI) production of LEN LYE the opera was a huge success during its four-night season at the Maidment Theatre (which ended on September 8th).
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The University of Auckland welcomes the appointment of Sir Ralph Norris to its Council.
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An Auckland economist says scrapping the “unnecessary” Puhoi to Wellsford ‘holiday highway’ and using the interest alone on the $8 billion price tag to help poor New Zealand communities could pluck 100,000 children out of poverty forever.
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A longtime marketing lecturer and head of The University of Auckland Business School’s Department of Marketing has been honoured for his contributions to the profession in New Zealand.
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Businesses from Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown have been shortlisted for this year’s $1 million University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge.
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Six talented artists will go head to head in a bid to win the title of Songwriter of the Year.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer “stealth” drug invented in New Zealand, to move forward to human clinical trials through its approval of an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for the drug.
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A large delegation of science leaders from Asian industrial capitals is today visiting the Maurice Wilkins Centre to build relationships that will link New Zealand inventors into innovation networks within Asia.
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University of Auckland research published today in the journal Science tackles a 200-year old question and supports the controversial hypothesis that Indo-European languages originated in Anatolia 8,000 to 9,500 years ago and spread with the expansion of farming.
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Master of Fine Arts student Andre Sampson has won this year's Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship for watercolour painting with a series of work that explores visual language.
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A rugby scholarship offered at The University of Auckland is helping to path the way for talented secondary school rugby players.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The work of one of the country’s best known dancers and choreographers will be profiled later this month in a retrospective show at Auckland’s Gus Fisher Gallery.
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Research from The University of Auckland, published in this month’s issue of The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, shows a 20 percent reduction in the New Zealand hospital admission rates for whooping cough (pertussis) in the 2000s compared with the 1990s.
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