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Photographs from 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa event in Tāmaki Makaurau

Photographs from the 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa event held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on 18 November

Photographs from 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa Ōtautahi

Photographs from the 2020 Research Honou...

Photographs from the 2020 Research Honours Aotearoa event held at at Te Puna o Waiwhetū Christchurch Art Gallery on 12 November.

2020 Rutherford Medal

Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherford Med...

Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd FRSNZ has been awarded the Rutherford Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his world-leading scholarship on literature...

2020 Te Puāwaitanga award

Associate Professor Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa) has been present...

Associate Professor Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa) has been presented the Puāwaitanga Award by Royal Society Te Apārangi for making a distinctive contribution to ...

2020 Pou Aronui Award

Professor Rawinia Higgins (Tūhoe) has been awarded the Pou Aronui Award by ...

Professor Rawinia Higgins (Tūhoe) has been awarded the Pou Aronui Award by Royal Society Te Apārangi for her advances in social policy and development related to Māo...

2020 Tahunui-a-Rangi award

Professor David Tipene-Leach MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu/Ngāti Kere, Ngāti...

Professor David Tipene-Leach MNZM (Ngāti Kahungunu/Ngāti Kere, Ngāti Manuhiri) has been presented the inaugural Tahunui-a-Rangi award by Royal Society Te Apārangi f...

2020 Thomson Medal

Dr John Caradus FRSNZ has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Ap...

Dr John Caradus FRSNZ has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his leadership in the commercial delivery of plant and microbial technologies...

2020 Hamilton Award

Dr Nick Albert has been awarded the Hamilton Award, the Royal Society Te Apār...

Dr Nick Albert has been awarded the Hamilton Award, the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Science, for his research into plant pigme...

2020 Hutton Medal

Distinguished Professor Neil Gemmell has been been awarded the Hutton Medal by R...

Distinguished Professor Neil Gemmell has been been awarded the Hutton Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his research that is fundamentally changing our understand...

2020 Humanities Aronui Medal

Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland FRSNZ has been awarded the Huma...

Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland FRSNZ has been awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his research on the foundations, philosophy a...

2020 Metge Medal

Professor Steven Ratuva has been awarded the Metge Medal by Royal Society Te Apā...

Professor Steven Ratuva has been awarded the Metge Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his interdisciplinary studies that have traversed culture, conflict, security...

2020 Hatherton Award

Georgia Grant, GNS Science, has received the Hatherton Award for her paper th...

Georgia Grant, GNS Science, has received the Hatherton Award for her paper that reveals the scale and implications for sea level rise in New Zealand from Antarctic ice ...

2020 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award

Dr Michael Stevens (Ngāi Tahu) has received the Royal Soc...

Dr Michael Stevens (Ngāi Tahu) has received the Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for his work on Ngāi Tahu history, which has brought the...

2020 Cooper Award

Dr Mallory Crookenden, AgResearch, has received the Cooper Award—the Royal Soc...

Dr Mallory Crookenden, AgResearch, has received the Cooper Award—the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Technology, Applied Science...

2020 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities: Art history on Ngāti Porou Carving

Associate Professor Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi/Ngāti Porou) has received the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities for her mult...

2020 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences

Dr David Moreau, University of Auc...

Dr David Moreau, University of Auckland, has received the 2020 Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences for his research on...

2020 Callaghan Medal

The 2020 Callaghan Medal for an outstanding contribution to science or techno...

The 2020 Callaghan Medal for an outstanding contribution to science or technology communication has been awarded to Professor Rangi Mātāmua (Tūhoe) for his pioneerin...

2020 Hector Medal

Professor Eamonn O’Brien FRSNZ has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Soci...

Professor Eamonn O’Brien FRSNZ has been awarded the Hector Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for his outstanding and internationally recognised contributions to the...

2020 Pickering Medal: Rocket Lab

This 2020 Pickering Medal for innovative work in design, developm...

This 2020 Pickering Medal for innovative work in design, development or invention leading to significant commercial success has been awarded to Rocket Lab’s research ...