What's new

This year the University will host a special Festival preview on Tuesday 20 March from 5.30-7.00pm at the Fale.  >>

The University is delighted to be able to make wines from our Goldie Vineyard available to members and friends of the Society with special options of mixed and six bottle case orders.  >>

Brother Number One, the award winning Kiwi documentary that follows Olympian and Trans-Atlantic rowing champion Rob Hamill to Cambodia to seek justice for his brother, will be opening in cinemas nationwide in March 2012.  >>

Alumni and friends can enjoy a special discount on tickets to see the Skycity NZ Breakers in March.  >>

From 20 January - 3 March the Gus Fisher Gallery hosts exhibitions by Reuben Paterson and Christine Hellyar, which both reflect on time, memory and taonga.  >>

Join alumni Nicholas Reid and Iain Sharp for a celebration of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday.  >>

Many congratulations to the following alumni, staff and friends of the University recognised in the recent New Year Honours.  >>

Over $14,000 was raised to support the Society Strings at this year's Christmas Celebration.  >>

Dr Nicholas Reid talks about his first poetry collection, recently published by Steele Roberts  >>

University Research Fellow Dr Mazdak Radjainia has won the first prize in the Wildlife category of New Zealand Geographic magazine’s Photographer of the Year competition 2011.  >>

Geothermal energy has been given a boost with 25 new scholarships available next year for international postgraduate students to study the subject at The University of Auckland.  >>

On Thursday 10 November a small group of Society members met at historic Highwic in Newmarket for a guided one hour tour.  >>

The Alumni Relations team kicked off the Christmas festivities early this year with a special celebration to thank the families who have generously donated their time to participate in the Host Families Scheme this year.  >>

Auckland Arts and Law graduate Max Harris has won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.  >>

Over 100 wines from Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty were entered into this year's competition, organised by the University's Wine Science Programme.  >>

The Bone Feeder is a 75 minute play by alumna Renee Liang, a contemporary reworking of the historical sinking of the SS Ventnor.  >>

Sam Viskovich from Northcote, Auckland has been selected as the third John Drake Memorial Scholar at The University of Auckland.  >>

Chris Jenkins, a BCom/LLB(Hons) graduate from The University of Auckland, is one of three New Zealanders awarded a prestigious Woolf Fisher Scholarship to study at Cambridge University next year.  >>

A welcome message to new members of the alumni community, with some information on the benefits and services we provide.  >>

Society members are invited to attend this panel discussion at the Business School, with drinks at Old Government House prior to the event.  >>