Photographs from 2025 Research Honours Aotearoa Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington

2025 Research Honours Aotearoa

• 2025 Rutherford Medal: How the brain makes memories
• 2025 Pickering Medal: Reimagining materials and energy for sustainability
• 2025 Humanities Aronui Medal: Recalibrating the law to recognise Māori interests
• 2025 Scott Medal:Deescalating earthquakes from ‘disaster’ to ‘nuisance’ through resilience research
• 2025 Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Medal
• 2025 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal: Making people count with demography and data sovereignty
• 2025 Callaghan Medal: Sharing science to get Kiwis on board with conservation
• 2025 Hector Medal: Designing better cancer drugs with knowledge gained from fundamental research
• 2025 MacDiarmid Medal: Providing new hope for people living with gut-motility disorders
• 2025 Hutton Medal: An inventory of all life in Aotearoa – past and present
• 2025 Hatherton Award: A piece of the historic puzzle about climate change
• 2025 Pou Aronui Medal: Advancing Indigenous knowledge and scholarship
• 2025 Durie Medal: A window into the changing attitudes and values of Kiwis
• 2025 Thomson Medal: A life’s work on stoats
• 2025 Fleming Medal
• 2025 Te Kopunui Māori Research Award: Ensuring Indigenous people are included in biomedical datasets and research
• 2025 Research Excellence Award for Humanities: Music can bond us together better than language, new research finds
• 2025 Hamilton Award: Achieving the impossible with benzene a huge leap forward for quantum technologies
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