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Employers impressed with AUT students
Volunteering sparks a flame for Eloise
AI-DAY Workshop Series at AUT announced
Marsden re-appointment for professor
Fiona chosen as Fulbright NZ Scholar
Build brand and recruit at career fairs
Make waves at a beach clean-up
Designing Organisations To Be More Human
New podcast celebrates Periodic Table
Knighthoods around the board table
Technology and hands-on practice
Brain power driving AI breakthroughs
AUT designers make international finals
Preparing athletes for success
World-leading stroke research at AUT
Celebrating AUT through the years
AUT strengthens ties with Chinese alumni
Research tackles online trolls
$20 donations help fund scholarship
Initiative to address interpreter demand
ad:tech: Illuminating the future
Passion the ticket to Biosecurity Forum
Marsden funding for AUT legal research
Empowering underprivileged girls
Student awarded Te Pia Tāpoi scholarship
Professor reports on historic referendum
Tourism student to experience Fiji
Can you help the Foodie Godmother?
Arts student plans dream event
Ministry addresses teacher shortage
Opening up about business failure
Toxic masculinity and the military
Our Food. Our People. Our Future.
AUT Blue Awards recognise top students
Honours society inducts new members
AUT Blue Awards honour arts and culture
Work needed to progress gender equity
AUT Alumna getting strategic at Google
Memory inspired knits exhibited in NYC
Japanese lecturer wins prestigious award
The renaissance of te reo Māori
MCW grads scoop top poetry awards
Work gets hard when hot-desking starts
AUT onboard with Xero Learn launch
Freedom of speech at risk in draft law
AUT student wins global film awards
Making connections at the career fair
Japanese Festival is a roaring success
Do you have a share market tip-off?
Easier access to teacher education
By offering education programmes at the South Campus, AUT aims to make teacher education more accessible to South Aucklanders and address the teacher shortage.
Work-ready initiative attracts sponsors
Zippy's Tales teaches kids about culture
AUT student's work dazzles at awards
Meet our new staff: Rachael Marsters
Great graduates gather in Singapore
Alumna’s internship experience in Taiwan
AUT students embrace the world
Advice from scholarship winner
Trafficking victims and the law
Palliser Ridge Scholarship knitted-up
Doctoral student’s research recognised
Prestigious scholarship for AUT alumna
AUT alumnus creates new Netflix series
Young business brains’ winning strategy
What makes graduates employable?
Partnership supports Merge Café
Students praised for quick response
Delivering work-ready graduates
AUT alumnus awarded bravery medal
Commemorating Bastion Point protest
AUT staff scoop NZ Sign Language Awards
AI workshop series in June and July
Young leaders link corporates & culture
Internship fosters passion for events
Students participate in beach clean-up
Marking World Press Freedom Day
Internships at Walt Disney World Resort
Taking New Zealand cuisine to the world
Academia enhances social change tools
Improving trade ties with Vietnam
Volunteering a strong focus at AUT
Addressing NZ’s construction woes
Professor John Tookey provided expert comment for a series of Stuff articles which looked at a range of problems besetting the construction industry.
Examining the impact of data misuse
Dr Verica Rupar, Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies, examined the Cambridge Analytica scandal in an op-ed for Newshub.
Fresh start drives passion for justice
AUT Law School graduate’s job at Meredith Connell next step in criminal law journey that has taken him from war zones to courtrooms.
Fantastic numbers at business career fair
Over 640 students descended on 32 employers who were offering up to 1,000 graduate roles or internships at the first Business and Economics Career Fair.
International Women’s Day celebrated
Professor Edwina Pio encourages everyone to make a daily commitment to #pressforchange on International Women’s Day
Powerful stories at Give Nothing to Racism
Creating positive change through storytelling was the focus of a recent Diversity at AUT event.
ANZ Technology internship leads to career
Attending a lunchtime presentation by ANZ Technology during her time as an AUT student delivered pure gold for software development alumna Bailee Devey.
On Waitangi Day, AUT alumni launched the world's first AR-enabled Māori alphabet colouring book.
Research offers new hope for amputees
Recognising a technology gap for amputees saw Aaron Cleland create Neural Amusement, a groundbreaking research project seeking to ease the pain of phantom limbs.
For her PhD research, doctoral student Ashley Gluchowski is investigating strength training for older adults, based at AUT Millennium.
AUT student joins advisory group
Communication studies student Arizona Leger was recently appointed to a Ministerial Advisory Group to review the current state of NCEA.
Academic discusses racism complaints
School of Social Sciences Associate Professor Camille Nakhid was featured in a Stuff article about the recent rise of racism complaints to the Human Rights Commission.
Professor recognised with Hind Rattan
School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences Professor Krishnamachar Prasad was recognised with the prestigious Hind Rattan Award in Bangkok.
New Zealand’s first electric bus hits the road
New Zealand’s first fully battery powered electric bus hits the road today, thanks to a joint initiative by Tranzit Group, EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) and AUT.
Physio students prepare for the future
Physiotherapy students are buzzing with anticipation about heading into the workplace after attending the Match Ready Employability Experience in early March.
New hybrid court model a way to deliver justice to victims of United Nations Peacekeeper abuse
AUT law academic Cassandra Mudgway has offered a way forward for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by United Nations peacekeepers.
When Elon Musk's commercial space company Space X successfully launched Falcon Heavy, AUT’s Radio Astronomy and Space Research team helped keep an eye on it.
While a cancer diagnosis can be a frightening and uncertain time, AUT Business School alumna Kamya Ghose, 25, turned her personal situation into an empowering business idea.
MBA alumni learn the value of telling stories when doing business
AUT's MBA alumni learnt how to employ communication skills to create a strong and lasting presence in the workplace, at a recent networking event.
Māori media grad lands US internship
AUT Bachelor of Māori Development alumna Matilda Poasa was selected from more than 250 applicants to intern at the Sundance Institute in Los Angeles.
Alumni form indie publishing collective
A group of AUT creative writing alumni created their own indie publishing company, Cloud Ink Press, to give new authors a voice in the industry.
Tourism grad takes her skills to Brazil
During her studies, Bachelor of International Tourism Management alumna Anna Rowlands took advantage of an international work opportunity.
AUT grad interns with the United Nations
In March, AUT alumnus Kaden Wilson is heading to New York to work with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's mission to the United Nations.
New initiatives for employer engagement
Three new industry and employability events are opening up opportunities for new employers to engage with AUT students and graduates.
Employability Matters attracts employers
How do you help students meet employers when they are also extremely busy studying? The answer at AUT has been to develop Employability Matters.
'Bearing Witness' project reporters win Dart trauma award
The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart Asia-Pacific Prize for Journalism and Trauma at the annual Ossie Awards in Student Journalism presented at the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) annual conference at Newcastle University in December.
AUT hosted high-profile guests and alumni at a recent gala event in New York.
The event, held at the Water Club in Manhattan was held in conjunction with Kea New Zealand and AUT. Kea is an international network that aims to connect Kiwis and New Zealand businesses globally.
AUT alumna Jenna Hannon is now the Growth Marketing Manager for Uber USA. She studied Marketing at AUT and was able to use these valuable skills in San Francisco, which landed her a role at Uber. One of her highlights at Uber is working with people across the world on a daily basis.
Filming Africa’s wild beauty with AUT Communications alumnus
Julian Braatvedt is an AUT Communications alumnus, who now works as a wildlife cameraman. He had the opportunity to work throughout Africa, filming everything from gorillas in Rwanda to elephants in Malawi.
Scam Warning: Worldwide Association of Notable Alumni (WANA)
We have been made aware an organisation calling itself Worldwide Association of Notable Alumni (WANA) that has been contacting alumni from AUT and other New Zealand institutions offering a professional alumni network service for a fee. This is a known scam.
AUT Alumni Event held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, brought AUT alumni, Vietnamese businesses, industry professionals and relevant government officials together for an evening networking event. AUT Alumni can be found in every corner of the world, and it’s important to the university to maintain relationships with our far-flung alumni, events such as this one are a great way to keep in touch.
AUT Alumni Thailand Event 2017
AUT Alumni Event held in Bangkok, Thailand, brought AUT alumni, local Thai businesses, industry professionals, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and relevant government officials together for an evening networking event. AUT Alumni can be found in every corner of the world, and it’s important to the university to maintain relationships with our far-flung alumni, events such as this one are a great way to keep in touch.
AUT Fashion Alumna Lucie is always in Vogue
AUT Fashion Design alumna Lucie Sutichunta is thriving in her role as fashion and lifestyle writer at Vogue Thailand. Lucie’s time as a student at AUT opened her eyes to the world of fashion, along with internships with Trelise Cooper and Karen Walker and Jeremy Scott in Los Angeles.
Amazing AUT graduates - Simon Waters and Jens Steinigen
AUT graduates are behind an innovative company who just launched a $100k Kickstarter campaign. The REYEDR is a heads-up display that attaches to your motorcycle helmet and shows you speed, navigation, distance and more.
Float Studios sails across the Tasman
Float Studios, a business started by six Bachelor of Creative Technologies alumni while they were studying at AUT, has recently been acquired by Sydney-based technology company Finch. Four of the team will move to Australia to head Finch’s VR and innovation team, while Float Studios will continue releasing games from New Zealand with Jake and Charlie working on VR and graphic design.
Diversity has always been part of the mix of Aotearoa New Zealand. Diversity encourages us to imagine other worlds and other lives in the interstices beyond the binary oppositions in which we entrap ourselves.