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AUT secures $13M in MBIE Endeavour Fund

AUT researchers have secured $13m in funding through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund.

Healthy homework works

Researchers investigated the effects of a Healthy Homework implementation in primary school children.

Five questions: Professor Lesley Ferkins

We asked Professor Lesley Ferkins five questions about her research ahead of her Inaugural Professorial Address.

AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings

AUT is now in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 50 for research citations.

AUT choir perform with Hugh Jackman

On Friday 6 September and Saturday 7 September, AUT’s Oceanian Voices choir performed at Hugh Jackman’s Auckland shows.

19 first in family scholarships awarded

19 AUT students were awarded Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarships at a celebration event at the AUT South Campus on Thursday 29 August.

val smith named Arts Foundation Laureate

Art & Design PhD student val smith has been named as a 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate for their contribution to performing arts in New Zealand.

Making rural New Zealand age-friendly

Research from the AUT Centre for Active Ageing adds the voice of rural-dwelling older people to recommendations for age-friendly communities.

Climate change report on Nature cover

AUT applied ecologist Dr Nicola Day has published paper on climate change in Nature which features on the cover.