University of Auckland
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Four University of Auckland staff featured in the New Year Honours list for 2012.
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Medical researchers from The University of Auckland have received the lion’s share of funding from The Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) announced yesterday.
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Associate Professor Michael Parekowhai (Ngati Whakarongo/Pakeha) has been awarded the Premier of Queensland’s Sculpture Commission with his proposed sculpture The World Turns.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland and a cluster of South Korean companies have launched a multi-robotic study at an Auckland retirement village.
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Thirteen professors at The University of Auckland have been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor.
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Low carbon transport systems do more than help create a healthy planet.
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A smaller proportion of older Aucklanders is moving into residential aged care according to studies by The University of Auckland.
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A new Memorandum of Understanding enabling future cooperation and support was signed by The University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon and the Grand Master of Freemasons New Zealand, Mr Selwyn Cooper, in Auckland on Friday 25 November.
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Geothermal energy has been given a boost with 25 new scholarships available next year for international postgraduate students to study the subject at The University of Auckland.
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Mighty River Power is investing in the continued development of New Zealand’s expertise and research into geothermal power generation by entering into an agreement with The University of Auckland to sponsor a newly established Chair in Geothermal Reservoir Engineering.
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AUCKLAND CITY — One of the most anticipated dates for art lovers is approaching.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Professor Annie Goldson from the Department of Film Television and Media Studies has been named Best Director Documentary at the AFTAs, the Aotearoa Film & Television Awards (formerly Qantas).
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A new programme being introduced into the Business School’s offerings next year will address local and international calls for ongoing entrepreneurship and commercialisation education to be offered to the next wave of New Zealand leaders and innovators.
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New Zealand’s State-owned Enterprise privatisation strategy is “caught in a time warp” and could fail if launched in the current unsettled world economy, an international governance expert warns.
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Prime Minister John Key should forget further action over the ‘secret’ media recording of his Epsom meeting with ACT candidate John Banks because nothing illegal has been done, a privacy expert says.
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Nutrition information for meals at New Zealand fast food chains is available but not easily accessible according to a study by researchers at The University of Auckland.
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Two researchers from The University of Auckland received medals at the annual Science Honours Dinner in Wellington last night.
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A rising star of New Zealand fiction whose first novel had a big international impact has been awarded the 2012 University of Auckland residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre.
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Threats, put-downs and controlling behaviours are commonplace in our closest relationships according to a study on intimate partner violence by researchers from The University of Auckland.
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The transition from solitary to group living provided protection from predators that allowed our primate ancestors to come down from the trees and become active during the daytime, according to research from The University of Auckland and University of Oxford.
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Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) are working on computer software that in the future could allow surgeons to accurately predict the success of an operation prior to surgery.
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Auckland and Waikato medical research teams have secured $1.9 million to unravel geographic and ethnic differences in cancer outcomes.
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Ti Point Vineyard’s 2010 Ti Point One Merlot Cabernet franc and Omaha Bay Vineyard’s 2009 Pinot gris, both from Matakana, were named the champion red and white wines of the 2011 Upper North Island Wine Competition at Old Government House on Saturday evening.
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A Māori academic advocating a global move back to the traditional wisdom approach of indigenous business to clean up a “dispirited nature of enterprise” says tackling ethical failures and environmental disasters should be a worldwide priority.
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Professor Rod Gover from the Department of Mathematics at The University of Auckland has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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A growing interest in Islamic religion and its role in the contemporary world has resulted in The University of Auckland adding a course in Islam to the Bachelor of Theology degree.
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PALMERSTON NORTH — A 4000-year-old baby feeder which turned up in a garage sale in Palmerston North has been donated to the Department of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Auckland.
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Entrepreneurial financial support in New Zealand has been boosted by the announcement of an additional $2 million being added to The University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge funding pool.
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Four companies have shared $1m in funding by winning the 2011 University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge – an Auckland-based financial services company, a Christchurch-based pet food manufacturer, a tourism operator with vehicles throughout Australasia, and an Auckland photographic design company.
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The exciting final game on Sunday translated into real, groundshaking data for the seismologists at the University of Auckland’s Institute of Earth Science and Engineering (IESE), who recorded the real time impact of the cheering crowd at Eden Park with an earthquake sensor (seismometer) buried beneath the stadium.
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A prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University has been awarded to Max Harris, an Arts and Law graduate from The University of Auckland.
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For more than half a century, Crown Lynn ceramics have held a central place in the hearts and on the dinner tables of New Zealanders.
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University of Auckland Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Liggins Institute researcher Professor Jane Harding has been awarded a prestigious individual investigator research project grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - one of 21 institutes which make up the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Sam Viskovich from Northcote, Auckland has been selected as the third John Drake Memorial Scholar at The University of Auckland.
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School of Music 3rd-year student Earl Ho has won The University of Auckland Songwriter of the Year.
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Nineteen research teams from across The University of Auckland have been awarded a total of $12.5 million over three years, in the 2011 Marsden Fund round.
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Chris Jenkins, a BCom/LLB(Hons) graduate from The University of Auckland, is one of three New Zealanders awarded a prestigious Woolf Fisher Scholarship to study at Cambridge University next year.
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Blinking, breathing, heart-beating mannequins are only part of New Zealand’s most advanced facility for simulation training in health at The University of Auckland.
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There are far fewer species on Earth – just 2 million – than widely believed and it is possible to discover them all this century, according to Associate Professor Mark Costello from The University of Auckland’s Leigh Marine Laboratory.
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AUCKLAND — Problem-solving therapy may help people who attempt suicide or self-harm according to a study by University of Auckland researchers published in the British Journal of Psychiatry this month.
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An Auckland Business School researcher has released a new book challenging some commonly held ideas about Māori economic activities in the Far North over the past 200 years.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland will hold graduation ceremonies at the Auckland Town Hall, for decades its traditional capping venue, for the final time this coming week.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Active established writers are invited to apply for the sought-after University of Auckland residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre.
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AUCKLAND — Kiwi bakers are leading trans-Tasman efforts to lessen sodium levels in bread according to a paper by researchers in Auckland and Sydney released today.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The next wave of New Zealand’s most talented songwriters and performers will be showcased at the 3rd annual University of Auckland Songwriter of the Year competition.
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Six promising entrepreneurial New Zealand companies have made the shortlist for a potential share of $1 million in seed funding to go global and take on the world Kiwi-style… thanks to The University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge.
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The death of a Bryde’s whale hit by a ship in the Hauraki Gulf highlights the need for more research and greater vigilance on the water, according to University of Auckland marine mammal scientist Dr Rochelle Constantine.
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A new biography about Pacific explorer and Bounty commander William Bligh by Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond of The University of Auckland is receiving critical acclaim.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A University of Auckland Business School logistics expert says Queen St should have been largely closed to traffic during Friday night’s Rugby World Cup CBD opening celebrations in order to cope with potentially vast crowds.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Auckland Law School has taken national mooting honours for the fifth year in a row.
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AUCKLAND CITY — It’s not just rugby fans who are gearing up for the Rugby World Cup.
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Latest data from New Zealand’s most comprehensive survey of adolescent behaviours shows both promising and worrying trends for kiwi teens according to researchers at The University of Auckland.
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Rutherford Discovery Fellowships for New Zealand’s top young researchers have been awarded to Dr Nicholas Shears and Dr Quentin Atkinson from The University of Auckland, and will bring alumnus Dr David Goldstone back to the University from the United Kingdom.
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The winner of an annual scholarship commemorating the life of former All Black and media personality John Drake will be announced almost 24 years after John formed part of the victorious 1987 World Cup All Blacks team.
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Mr Nick Jones from The University of Auckland has been appointed Director of the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), a nation-wide supercomputer network designed to support cutting-edge research.
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Professor Tava Olsen, Ports of Auckland Chair in Logistics Supply Chain Management at The University of Auckland Business School, supports congestion charges even if there isn’t a need to raise revenue, because she believes they are a solution to clogged transport networks and struggling productivity statistics.
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The Auckland University U21 rugby team has taken top honours in the Auckland U21 Rugby Competition, beating Grammar Carlton at Colin Maiden Park.
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A critical challenge facing Māori development is the challenge and opportunity of distinctiveness.
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AUCKLAND — Photographic perception...must become semi-automatic and instantaneous [like] playing...on the keyboard.” Those words epitomise the ethos and practice of Frank Hofmann – photographer, writer, musician and artist – whose interdisciplinary explorations are on display in a forthcoming exhibition at the Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland.
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A potentially contentious report depicting human rights and labour abuses of crew working on foreign-owned fishing fleets within New Zealand waters has been launched at The University of Auckland Business School this week.
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The companies – ranging from bulk material handling system developers through to tourism operators and makers of raw natural petfood – will now undergo scrutiny by the Challenge’s selection panel before the finalists are announced in September.
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The University of Auckland is delighted to announce the appointment of one of the Southern Hemisphere’s most respected anaesthesiologists, Professor Alan Merry as Head of The University of Auckland’s School of Medicine.
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Current and former students from The University of Auckland have scooped all the major awards for the second year running after tonight’s announcement of the 2011 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Awards.
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“Friendship bullying” is rife amongst female high school students according to research from The University of Auckland.
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Senior economist with The University of Auckland Business School Dr Rhema Vaithianathan says New Zealand managers and processes are “strikingly bad” at managing staff and they – rather than the wage gap with Australia – might be the most significant reason for losing staff to our trans-Tasman cousins.
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Nominations are called for noteworthy statistics – good, bad and ugly – quoted in the New Zealand media, for a new weekly competition on the Stats Chat blog run by the Department of Statistics at The University of Auckland.
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Prolific and award-winning author Ian Wedde has been announced as the third New Zealand Poet Laureate.
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AUCKLAND — Leading law firm Chapman Tripp has pledged substantial funding over a five year period to support the establishment of the Chapman Tripp Chair in Corporate and Commercial Law at The University of Auckland's Faculty of Law.
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Nearly 3000 blind and partially-sighted New Zealanders could be suffering from undiagnosed sleep timing disorders according to a recent study from The University of Auckland.
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A second anticancer “stealth” drug designed by New Zealand scientists has been targeted for clinical development under a collaborative agreement between Proacta Incorporated (San Diego) and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.
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Scientists from the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre (ACSRC) and Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery have designed a new compound that starves certain cancer cells of glucose, depriving them of energy.
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University of Auckland staff have scooped four of the 12 National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards for 2011 plus the Prime Minister’s Supreme Award.
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Either National or Labour would have won a clear majority, while the Greens, with the third largest party vote in 2008, would have few or no seats in parliament if recent elections were run under some of the voting systems in this year's referendum.
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Some 3770 University of Auckland final-year students have been approached to take part in a world-first study of graduates.
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An Auckland University Press title, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964, has scored a hat-trick at the NZ Post Book Awards.
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Academics from The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI) and the Faculty of Science will team up for the forthcoming LATE at the Museum event.
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Groundbreaking new studies on Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease are among The University of Auckland research programmes to be funded by The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC).
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AUCKLAND — Cameron Sinclair, founder and “Chief Eternal Optimist” of Architecture for Humanity, will deliver a public lecture as part of his role as International Architect in Residence at The University of Auckland.
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Suits of armour may have made medieval soldiers feel safe, but modern scientists have found that they were so heavy and constricting they were likely to have limited performance and even influenced the outcome of battles.
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The University of Auckland is positioned to become the Southern Hemisphere’s premium wine science facility thanks to the vision of pioneering Waiheke winemakers Kim and Jeanette Goldwater.
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The University of Auckland has made the top six at the world’s largest and most prestigious student technology competition.
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AUCKLAND — Esteemed American photographer Catherine Opie will deliver a public lecture and mount a special exhibition in Auckland as part of her role as an Elam International Artist in Residence at The University of Auckland.
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An Auckland scientist has tested one of the most fundamental theories in physics to such accuracy that theoretical physicists will now have to race to catch up with the experimental data.
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The Faculty of Engineering is running an event for high school girls to encourage those who have an aptitude for maths and science to consider a career in engineering.
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AUCKLAND — Seven graduates and three academics from The University of Auckland have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for 2011.
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Weight-gain and diabetes-like symptoms are common side effects of antipsychotic medications, and New Zealand research into the chemical changes involved is raising hope that these effects may be better managed or eliminated.
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Law at The University of Auckland has been ranked 18th in the world in the QS World University Rankings®.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The annual New Zealand Brain Bee Challenge gets under way this month (28 June) at The University of Auckland More than 150 Year 11 students from secondary schools all over the North Island will be converging at the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to compete for the illustrious title.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A novel cancer drug designed by scientists from The University of Auckland and Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, and licensed to university spin-out company Pathway Therapeutics, Inc., has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to enter clinical trials.
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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 CITY — An engineering student from The University of Auckland is the only New Zealander this year to be awarded a STAR scholarship from the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A novel anti-tumour agent, CEN-209, created by New Zealand scientists will enter clinical development under two international agreements announced last week.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland has been placed in the top 50 in the world in six Arts and Humanities subjects.
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AUCKLAND CITY — For a fourth year Auckland University Press, a small publisher of scholarly non-fiction and poetry for the general market, has topped the list in New Zealand’s national book awards.
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AUCKLAND CITY — A New Zealand study has shown that interactive gaming can be a step in the right direction for overweight children.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland Interfaculty Basketball Tournament finalists have been found and will compete in the finals this Thursday afternoon.
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AUCKLAND CITY — Academic staff from The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI) will give public lectures to celebrate Matariki— the Māori New Year.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The University of Auckland appreciates the 2 percent increase in the student tuition subsidy announced in today’s Budget.
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