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AUT finalists named in the New Zealand Innovation Awards 2016

AUT finalists named in the New Zealand Innovation Awards 2016

Creative technologies
23 Sep, 2016

AUT has bagged three nominations at this year’s Innovation Awards.

New Zealand SKA Alliance Big Data Challenges led by AUT and NZA has been named a finalist in the Innovation Excellence in Research and Young New Zealand Innovator category.

AUT student nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year

AUT student nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year

Communication studies
15 Sep, 2016

AUT Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies student Joshua Iosefo has been nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year at the New Zealander of the Year Awards.

AUT student represents NZ at Edinburgh Arts Festival

AUT student represents NZ at Edinburgh Arts Festival

Art and design
07 Sep, 2016

AUT PhD Candidate Olivia Webb and her artwork represented New Zealand at one of the largest art events in the United Kingdom, the Edinburgh Arts Festival.

Earlier this year Olivia was invited to create an artwork for the festival as part of the festival’s 2016 Commissions Programme. Her new artwork, Lapides Vivi, was launched at this year’s festival.

AUT PhD candidate places third in Falling Walls competition

AUT PhD candidate places third in Falling Walls competition

Creative technologies
01 Sep, 2016

AUT Engineering PhD candidate Stephanie Anne Croft placed third in the Falling Walls Competition held in Canberra, Australia, where participants have to sum up their research in three minutes.

Computer and engineering students head to China with Huawei

Computer and engineering students head to China with Huawei

Creative technologies
31 Aug, 2016

On Friday 26 August, five AUT Computer and Engineering students headed to China with Huawei.

Over the next two weeks they’ll get the rare opportunity to go behind the doors of Huawei HQ in Shenzhen and see what is involved in being the world’s biggest telecommunications technology retailer.

AUT secures 25 Best Award nominations

AUT secures 25 Best Award nominations

Art and design
15 Aug, 2016

Twenty five projects by students and staff from the School of Art and Design and Colab have secured nominations in the country’s top design awards.

Save the bees

Save the bees

Engineering, computer and mathematical sciences
03 Aug, 2016

The first Māori woman to get a PhD from engineering at AUT graduated on Friday.

Ngaire Hart is believed to be only the second Māori woman to have the qualification in this field.

Head of NASA’s Juno Mission visits AUT

Head of NASA’s Juno Mission visits AUT

Creative technologies
01 Aug, 2016

The head of NASA’s Juno Mission got a first-hand look at AUT’s Institute of Radio Astronomy and Space Research work at its radio telescopes at Warkworth last week.

Smarter use of big data - National centre to create new data technology platforms

Smarter use of big data - National centre to create new data technology platforms

Creative technologies
21 Jul, 2016

Building world-leading data technology platforms that create industries and keep talented young New Zealanders in this country is the focus of a new organisation being launched at AUT tonight.

World Journalism Congress at AUT

World Journalism Congress at AUT

Communication studies
15 Jul, 2016

The CEO whose organisation stood behind the release of the Panama Papers will be a speaker at the World Journalism Congress to be held at AUT in July this week.  Peter Bale runs the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC,   one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America.

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