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Dr Nira Paskaranandavadivel along with the team at Gastrointestinal Research Group at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), has been researching the potential of electroceuticals in gut treatment for several years and has recently…

But how realistic is the idea of a trade ‘reset’ given geopolitical tensions, ongoing border closures, different domestic policies and the game changer of Covid-19?Will old trade wars continue to loom large for the Asia Pacific region and…

Although many of the commonalities between these languages are due to borrowing, recent studies have shown evidence supporting the classification of Transeurasian as a genealogical group, or a group of languages that emerged from a common…

The study, by an international team of researchers led by the University of Auckland, discovered that, on average, each whale had five microplastics per teaspoon of scat, or faeces.The researchers, in collaboration with whale watch…

But a team of University of Auckland researchers is doing something about that.A team from the University’s Psychology department reported on preliminary findings from their study of sexual violence in June. Read an overview of Shifting…

More than 100 multi-storey buildings in Wellington’s CBD alone are identified as well below modern code, so the EQC-funded research by the team from the Faculty of Engineering, Dr Enrique del Rey Castillo, PhD student Victor Li and Dr…

If there is a silver lining to the 2021 lockdown, Dr Olivier Holland, from the School of Music, has seen it in a record-breaking number of A-plus jazz music compositions by Stage 2 students this semester.“This year's cohort absolutely…

The University of Auckland’s medical faculty will lead a multi-million dollar government-funded project to support vaccine development to help prevent rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.The initiative tackles one of the nation’s…

The medal is awarded by the New Zealand Association of Scientists and recognises senior researchers for a lifetime of outstanding service to the profession of science.Professor Braun is a graduate of the University of Auckland and…

Alex Calder, an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, has been awarded a $494,000 Marsden grant for his exploration of the literary and cultural history of taboo.Ideas about taboo are important because they have helped build and…