Alumni news

$2.7m for offshore aquaculture

AUT ecologist Dr Kay Vopel is leading a project to develop new protocols for offshore fish farming.

Eating healthy is hard on a Covid budget

More of us are now facing food insecurity - with children, Pacific peoples and Māori the most impacted, writes Emeritus Professor Elaine Rush.

New tool to help the homeless

A world-first machine learning tool developed at AUT for a county in the United States, accurately prioritises requests for housing help.

AUT 2020 Best Awards finalists

Thirty-six projects from AUT are finalists for the 2020 Best Awards.

He taupanga hou e akona ai te reo Maori

E wātea ana tētahi taupānga utukore e whakaako ana me pēhea te whakamahi i te reo Māori i ētahi horopaki tūturu ki ō tātou ao, hei mea tiki ake mā te marea

AUT launches new advertising campaign

AUT graduates are telling the story in their own words of how their AUT experience inspired them and shaped their lives and futures.

Interpreting at a terrorist's hearing

In the middle of the action at the Christchurch mosques terrorist’s sentencing will be AUT alumnus, and language interpreter, Dr Mustafa Derbashi.

Former refugee now Ivy League student

AUT alumnus Guled Mire says his new Fulbright NZ scholarship to study at an Ivy League university sends a strong message to other refugee kids.

Scientists dissect squid named by alum

For his PhD, AUT alumnus Dr Jesse Kelly described and named a rare genus of deep-sea squid; a specimen of which was recently dissected by NZ scientists.

A new way of research storytelling

Vivian is a graphic novel about the intersections between gender and palliative care.