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One year on from the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai eruption – what do we know
Science
16 Jan, 2023
On 15 January 2022 the active volcano Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai erupted, sending a shockwave around the world. One year later, what do we know?
Science
29 Nov, 2022
AUT Ventures has been awarded commercialisation funding for its green surfactant technology.
New professors and associate professors
17 Nov, 2022
AUT is delighted to announce the promotion of 15 of its academics to the position of Professor and 30 to Associate Professor.
09 Nov, 2022
The Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences had two grants approved with total funding of $1.6 million in the 2022 round of Marsden funding.
Calling time on the imperial lawn
02 Nov, 2022
By planting trees on third of the world’s city lawns, we could absorb 6 billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere over 20 years.
19 Oct, 2022
The three-day camp aimed to empower Māori high school students through science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
12 Oct, 2022
AUT has claimed its highest-ever place among New Zealand universities in the latest global rankings.
Racism, exclusion and tokenism
12 Aug, 2022
Given most universities have goals for increasing Māori and Pacific student and staff, we need to ask why numbers still remain low in the research sector.
Cook Islands Language Week 2022
Science
01 Aug, 2022
Episode four of AUT’s 2022 Pacific Language Week Video series – AUT Focus on Sustainability – is now live.
Anchors cause damage to seafloor
Science
18 May, 2022
High-resolution mapping has produced the first ever global estimates of coastal habitat damage caused by anchoring.
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