News in the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies - Te Ara Auaha
Next Generation of Fashion Launched at AUT
The local fashion industry will be out in force at Rookie 2011 tonight to see what the next generation of fashion design talent has to offer.
AUT lecturer a 2012 Fulbright Scholar
Research into site-based art projects has seen an AUT senior lecturer be the worthy recipient of a 2012 Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar Award.
Marsden Fund grant to help unearth the ‘male advantage’
The disadvantage of women in the work place has long been of interest to researchers. However with support from this year’s Marsden Fund, Dr Irene Ryan of AUT Business School now hopes to turn the lens towards the male advantage.
Hockey player and Paralympian take out AUT’s top sport awards
AUT University’s best sportsmen and women were recognised on Friday 14 October at the annual Blues Awards at the North Shore Campus. A total of 46 Blues Awards were presented on the night with the calibre of recipients reflected in the night’s big winners.
Speakers included Jenene Freer from the NZ Girl website, Craig Meek from Futuretech, Orcon founder Seeby Woodhouse, and local programmer Simon Riley.
Sparkling Spices set to light up at the Aotea Centre
The next interactive exhibition by CoLab launches tonight with the work fitting in perfectly with the Diwali Festival happening over the weekend.
Big step forward for NZ-Aust SKA telescope network
New Zealand and Australia’s bid to host the international SKA radio telescope has taken a leap forward, following the commissioning of a working optical fibre link between AUT University’s radio telescope and radio telescopes across Australia including CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope in Western Australia.
Heritage helps inspire success
Two AUT fashion graduates, both inspired by their heritage, have come up trumps at the 2011 Miromoda Maori Fashion Design Awards.
AUT graduates have been scooping awards left, right and centre in the media industry.
Two AUT graduates from the School of Communication Studies have won a national competition which will now see them compete in France.