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Agnes Blackie Memorial Fellowship opportunity

Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre is advertising this fellowship opportunity, and applications are open until Sunday 19 July 2026

Cather Simpson leaves the board.

Te Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre Board Chair Charlotte Walshe has announced that University of Auckland Professor Cather Simpson has resigned from the Centre’s Governance Board.

Exceptional alumni honoured with prestigious University award

Renowned physicist and science communicator Professor John Dudley has been recognised for his exceptional accomplishments in the University’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards.

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A Revolutionary New Machine to Understand how Brains Work

Neuro-imaging systems such as MRI scanners are expensive, imagine if you could build one for animal testing from off-the-shelf components for under $10000USD?

New Zealand's Space Pioneers on Target for Greatness

Representatives of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have been visiting some of New Zealand's best photonic researchers within the Centre.

Symposium 2024

We happy to announce that our annual Symposium will be held at the University of Canterbury in 2024, and we warmly invite you to attend.

Prof Cather Simpson leads research into protecting Aotearoa's bees from pests

Award-winning Te Whai Ao researcher Prof Cather Simpson has their research highlighted

EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light awarded to Prof. John Dudley

Prof. John Dudley and Prof. Goëry Genty are celebrated with the EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light

ONZM awarded to Te Whai Ao member Prof. Frank Bloomfield

Professor Frank Bloomfield, DVCR of the University of Auckland and member of Te Whai Ao, received an ONZM for services to neonatology in the New Year's Honours.