by mdob102 | Nov 26, 2021 | News
Michaela Dobson, a doctoral candidate from the Faculty of Science, has become the first New Zealander to be awarded the Lunar and Planetary Institutes Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award. She has recieved this award because her research samples may be impact...
by mdob102 | Aug 4, 2021 | News
2021 Astrophysics van Zeist, W., Stevance, H., & Eldridge, J. (2021). Riroriro: Simulating gravitational waves and evaluating their detectability in Python. The Journal of Open Source Software, 6(59), 2968. doi:10.21105/joss.02968 Biology Carter C W Jr, Wills P R....
by mdob102 | Jun 4, 2021 | News
In 2020, the University of Auckland started a new Astrobiology Course, ASTRO200G. This was a huge success, attracting students from all different faculties and disciplines! Now running for its second year (2021), there are over 200 keen students enrolled from around...
by mdob102 | Apr 8, 2021 | News
TAM researchers Dr. Dan Hikuroa and Dr. Emily Parke provide a thought provoking and valuable insight into current discussions of the relationship between mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge, culture, values and worldview) and science, by challenging ambiguous...
by mdob102 | Feb 4, 2021 | News
2021 has seen a large amount of grant and funding success for our researchers: Professor Richard Easther (Physics) was awarded a RSNZ Marsden grant, entitled “Lighting the Dark: Understanding the Early Universe.” Drs Emily Parke (Philosophy) and Dan Hikuroa (Māori...
by mdob102 | Feb 4, 2021 | News
TAM PhD students Ira Mautner (Physics) and Michaela Dobson (Environment) organised and hosted a mini-symposium on Astrobiology in February 2021 that attracted 170 enrollments from mainly postgraduate students within the university. It was sponsored by the “Our World...
by mdob102 | Dec 17, 2020 | News
Kathy Campbell (Director) went to Rotorua to film a Virtual Field Trip for Te Ao Marama’s new Astrobiology course. She was joined by the director of the New Zealand Astrobiology Network, Haritina Mogosanu, as well as some research fellows, PhD students and three...
by mdob102 | Jan 9, 2020 | Talks
Happy New Year to all! Please note the up-coming talk by visiting Origin of Life researcher David Deamer (UC Santa Cruz) in the Science Centre at midday on Friday 7th February. We hope to see many of you there! David Deamer talk_Feb 2020
by mdob102 | Sep 13, 2019 | Events
During the last week Te Ao Mārama has hosted some very successful talks and panel discussions for the Vice Chancellor lectures series. This was an amazing opportunity for academics and students to come together and think about some big questions. Some photos from the...
by mdob102 | Sep 6, 2019 | Talks
In conjunction with the on-going VC’s Lecture Series – Perspectives on Life in the Universe – please come to a lecture at noon, Thursday 12th September, on deep space exploration. Queries to Kathy Campbell, ka.campbell@auckland.ac.nz
