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AUT staff come to the party for KidsCan
AUT staff have helped provide students in low decile schools with the stationery they need to start the 2014 school year.
Cultural exchange a great experience for students
A group of AUT University students and staff members were lucky enough to travel to Taiwan at the end of last year for a film and cultural exchange, learning about the Taiwanese culture and sharing their Māori heritage and traditions too.
Fulbright research aims to improve ethnic medical outcomes
Introducing patient navigators (who are trained medical interpreters) to New Zealand hospitals could help reduce adverse outcomes for ethnic communities according to a 2014 Fulbright Scholar from AUT University.
Prime Minister’s Youth Programme comes to AUT
20 young women, participants in the 2014 Prime Minister’s Youth Programme, took part in a ‘market to table’ experience hosted at AUT’s Four Seasons restaurant this week.
Putting human rights into social protection
Policy-makers and development practitioners have a new tool to help them devise dynamic social protection programmes - a book co-authored by AUT’s Professor Marilyn Waring.
Bleeding, talking mannequin takes students through their paces
He may be plastic, but the SimMan® Essential Bleeding mannequin can spurt blood, talk and scream in pain.
He’s an essential ‘member’ of AUT University’s Paramedicine team and is one of the high-fidelity human simulators used for teaching Paramedicine and Emergency Management. Using these real-life mannequins, students deal with worst-case scenarios under the guidance of a lecturer, technician and support person in an observation booth. The technician’s voice is transmitted via the mannequin, giving it the ability to speak and respond to the students’ questions.
International Award for AUT student
Postgraduate student journalist Daniel Drageset has won a coveted international prize in trauma journalism - the 2013 Dart trauma journalism award.
Drageset won the award for his multimedia news report series about the torture of a fugitive prisoner and his suspected accomplice by Fiji prison officers
Student wins first ever Joseph Peart Scholarship
PR company Porter Novelli announced last week that the inaugural Joseph Peart Scholarship has been awarded to AUT Communication Studies student Kaya Arai.
Inspirational scholar recognised with Prime Minister’s Award
Edmond Fehoko believes in the transformative power of education – he has seen it in his own life and now helps other students to experience it too.
AUT celebrates biggest graduation ever!
AUT University is celebrating its largest ever graduation this week as 4180 students receive their qualifications at one of eight ceremonies over the next three days. At the beginning of each day, AUT graduands will also have the opportunity to parade proudly in their regalia from Albert Park to Aotea Centre, where the ceremonies will be held.