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Dr Marilyn Waring named honorary member of Zonta International
AUT Professor of Public Policy Marilyn Waring has been granted honorary membership of Zonta International, an organisation that seeks to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy.
Young Northlanders provided the opportunity to study at AUT University
AUT University welcomed McDonald’s Global CEO and President Don Thompson onto Ngā Wai o Horotiu Marae on Thursday to introduce him to past and present recipients of the McDonald’s Te Tai Tokerau Scholarship.
Che Fu and Tigilau Ness to headline AUT University’s South Campus Housewarming
The Auckland community is being invited to the AUT University South Campus Housewarming to have a look around and checkout what’s been hiding behind the fence, all these years.
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