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Research Honours Aotearoa 2024 - call for nominations

The call for nominations for medals and awar...

Research Honours Aoteaora 2023 - call for nominations

The call for nominations for medals and awar...

2022 Medals and Awards

The call for nominations for medals and awards for the 2022 round is now open.

Dylan Thomas to receive the 2021 Sir Hugh Kawharu Scholarship for Innovation in Science

Dylan Thom...

Lisiua Havili to receive 2021 Raewyn Good Study Award

Lisiua Havaili at the University of Auckland...

2021 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Contributions of innovators, kairangahau Māori, researcher...

The 2021 RHT Bates Postgraduate Scholarship has been awarded to Matthew Goodwin

This scholarship w...

2021 Medals and Awards

The call for nominations for medals and awards for the 2021 round is now open.

2020 Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated at Auckland Museum

The achievements and contribu...

2020 Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated at Christchurch Art Gallery

The achievements and...

2020 Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated at Government House

The achievements and contrib...

2020 Medals and Awards

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the closing date for nominations for all meda...

Rutherford Medal now includes humanities

Royal Society Te Apārangi’s highest award, the Rutherf...

2019 Research Honours Aotearoa winners

Hosted by Royal Society Te Apārangi, the achievements and ...

2018 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes presented

The award ceremony to present the 2018 Prime Mini...

2019 Medals and Awards

The call for nominations for the 2019 medals and awards round is now open.

2018 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: Retelling Māori history

Dr Arini Loader has received th...

2018 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: Moving past 'Once were Warriors' to a better understanding of Māori men

2018 Hamilton Award: Developing snapper aquaculture through image 'fingerprinting' and genome research

2018 Hatherton Award: Ice floe size could be missing puzzle piece in global climate models

Ms Lett...

2018 Hatherton Award: Ground-breaking algebra

Dr Jurij Volčič has received the Hatherton Award f...

2018 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities: How Indigenous legal traditions shape the law

2018 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences: Redefining the role of sport in the red zone

2018 Callaghan Medal: Making conservation genetics sexy with bird sperm races and more

Dr Helen Ta...

2018 Hector Medal: Wormholes, black holes and other subjects of gravity

Mathematical physicist Pro...

2018 Jones Medal: Symmetry and open questions

Distinguished Professor Marston Conder FRSNZ has bee...

2018 Thomson Medal: Outstanding service to environmental science and conservation

Professor Emerit...

2018 Hutton Medal: What microscopic marine amoeba can tell us about our past climate, sea levels and earthquakes

2018 Hercus Medal: Advances in prostate and kidney cancer

Professor Brett Delahunt ONZM FRSNZ has ...

2018 Humanities Aronui Medal: Reshaping history to take account of women

Historian Professor Barba...

2018 Mason Durie Medal: Reshaping our understanding of the last great human migration

Professor Li...

2018 Metge Medal: Connecting Te Ao Māori with clinical practice

Associate Professor Suzanne Pitam...

2018 Pou Aronui Award: Taking the Treaty to the people

Dame Dr Claudia Orange DNZM OBE CRSNZ has b...

2018 Pickering Medal: Making the grass 'greener' by commercialising a novel grass-fungi partnership

2018 MacDiarmid Medal: Medical testing on your virtual clone

Distinguished Professor Geoff Chase F...