Science news

New professors and associate professors

AUT is delighted to announce the promotion of 15 of its academics to the position of Professor and 30 to Associate Professor.

Marsden Fund success for AUT

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

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.

First AUT STEM Camp a success

The three-day camp aimed to empower Māori high school students through science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Record ranking for AUT

AUT has claimed its highest-ever place among New Zealand universities in the latest global rankings.

Racism, exclusion and tokenism

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

Episode four of AUT’s 2022 Pacific Language Week Video series – AUT Focus on Sustainability – is now live.

Anchors cause damage to seafloor

High-resolution mapping has produced the first ever global estimates of coastal habitat damage caused by anchoring.

NZ Tree intel in your pocket, even offline

AUT’s popular NZ Trees app has been updated with more than double the number of native plants now included as well as an offline feature.

Breaking bias must take effort

In New Zealand, attracting women into science is a major problem. The issue is retaining and enabling them to advance at the same rate as men.