by Olivia Summerhays | Monday, 21 November, 2022 | Alumni
After falling in love with poi while in the circus, Dr Kate Riegle van West packed up her life in the United States and headed to New Zealand to chase a hunch that playing with poi had health benefits. Conducting the world’s first scientific study of poi and wellbeing...
by Olivia Summerhays | Monday, 21 November, 2022 | Alumni
Start-ups that began through the University of Auckland’s Velocity programme have been named in the 2022 Deloitte Fast 50, an index of New Zealand’s fastest growing businesses. Deloitte says that their inclusion is evidence of the important role universities have to...
by Olivia Summerhays | Friday, 11 November, 2022 | Alumni
StretchSense, a global leader in high-precision motion capture technology for the gaming and animation sectors, has recently completed a NZ$13.3m series A led by Par Equity, supported by existing investor GD1 and Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s national economic...
by Olivia Summerhays | Thursday, 10 November, 2022 | Alumni
Fresh water is an indispensable resource, and we cannot survive without it. Population and industry growth have put pressure on our precious waterways and local and central governments now have the weight of managing these systems on their shoulders. Essential to...
by Olivia Summerhays | Monday, 31 October, 2022 | Alumni
The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented mass social deprivation that we are only now beginning to understand the consequences of. Worldwide, a generation of young people have had living in an online world normalised. They are used to screens being their window to...
by Olivia Summerhays | Wednesday, 29 June, 2022 | Alumni
FormusLabs, a venture co-founded by University of Auckland Professor Thor Besier and alumnus Dr Ju Zhang, has raised $5m USD towards their pre-operative planning software designed to assist orthopaedic surgeons with delivering joint replacement surgeries. Current...
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