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AUT’s first Rhodes Scholar

Product development engineer Monique Cooper is the first ever AUT graduate to be awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.

Reconsidering the ecological impact of introduced species in NZ

Considering climate change and species loss, fighting all exotics maybe counterproductive to the ecosystems we’re trying to save, says AUT ecologist.

Spotlight on sustainability

AUT’s inaugural Sustainability Report assesses our progress in creating a greener and more sustainable future.

Rutherford postdoctoral fellow award

Dr Syrie Hermans, has been awarded a Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to research how microbes in the soil benefit agricultural ecosystems.

The sustainable in-tent: fashion design

For final-year fashion student Molly Whitehead, sustainability and bringing old back has been central to her study at AUT.

Teaching sustainability in design

For Industrial Design students at AUT, light-proof milk bottles are a valuable resource to be reimagined in a circular economy challenge.

Research: offshore fish farms

AUT is leading a large 36-month international project to develop a technique to assess the environmental impact of offshore aquaculture.

SfTI funds bio-inspired underwater robot

Dr Lorenzo Garcia has secured $200,000 of funding in the latest round of the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge.

Refuse to use: Plastic free July at AUT

AUT staff and students have come together to go plastic-free this July. Get their top tips for reducing plastic all year round.

AUT: How we managed to kill the ‘bill’

Despite 2020 being peppered with COVID lockdowns, they were not the only contributor to impressive savings for AUT’s energy bill.