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'Excellent textbook' wins Culinary Quill award
The New Zealand Chef, a textbook co-authored by AUT senior lecturer Lindsay Neill, has been recognised with the chief judge’s special award at the 2013 Culinary Quill Awards.
Recognising excellence in teaching and research
Last night AUT held the second annual Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excellence in Research and Teaching, celebrating staff that have excelled in their contribution to AUT. The inaugural AUT University Medal was presented by the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Hon Steven Joyce, to Professor Welby Ings from the School of Art and Design. The University Medal is AUT’s pre-eminent academic award and was presented to Professor Ings in recognition of his sustained and outstanding contribution to AUT.
AUT University recognised for energy efficiency
AUT University has been announced as a finalist for the Mega Efficiency Impact category and for the EECA Business Energy Management Award in the 2013 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards.
AUT leads largest Trans-Tasman teleworking survey
Employees who telework one to three days per week – so-called ‘hybrid teleworkers’ - are more productive than workers who do little or no telework, according to a new study jointly undertaken between AUT University’s NZ Work Research Institute and the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, and commissioned by Cisco.
Professor Marilyn Waring honoured with Science and Innovation Award
AUT University’s Professor Marilyn Waring has been named as the winner of the Science and Innovation Award at the inaugural New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.
New worldwide studies reveal stroke is increasingly affecting younger people
Stroke, a condition traditionally associated with old age, is increasingly affecting young and middle aged people, according to a major new analysis led by AUT University.
AUT Business School meets the market with new Professional Masters
The AUT Business School is extending its postgraduate business degree portfolio to meet a growing demand for tertiary qualifications that fast track career enhancement and change, building upon the success and reputation of the long established Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Professional Accounting (MPA).
Music, art and celebration were the name of the game at the Nga Wai O Horotiu Marae 16th birthday last week.
Live performances, AUT student work, expo stalls and kai (food) kept the 250 attendees, including Vice Chancellor Derek McCormack, Te Ara Poutama Dean Pare Keiha and Dr Pita Sharples, busy.
World champions win at AUT sport awards
Two world champion Rugby Sevens players and a NZ touch rugby representative have taken the major awards at AUT’s annual Blues Awards. Recognising sporting excellence, the Blues awards were presented to 78 students at a formal dinner on Friday 11 October at the Sir Paul Reeves building in Auckland’s city campus.
Scientists to tackle traumatic brain injury
AUT University researchers have joined an international team of 38 scientific institutes and 60 European hospitals aiming to create better and more targeted treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).