Bubbles in many weird and wonderful shapes, some of them several metres long, captured the attention of hundreds of people during events at the weekend to raise awareness of cystic fibrosis.
Members of the Divers family attending a reunion at Whare Flat were unruffled when rain began to fall as their main formal group photograph was being set up on Saturday afternoon.
University of Otago computer security specialist Associate Prof Hank Wolfe is urging a ''major rethink'' on data privacy issues, after several controversial developments, including moves towards greatly increased data sharing by government departments.
The Otago University Students Association had previously withdrawn from any involvement with a Dunedin dance concert held last week, during which about a dozen intoxicated people were treated by St John, officials said.
Otago Museum design services co-ordinator Craig Scott recently returned to Dunedin with his head brimming with new ideas after spending two weeks on a museum scholarship in Scandinavia.
When it comes to their presence in the animal kingdom, lions, elephants and tropical butterflies represent polar opposites, but all are classified as equally hazardous when on the run.
An array of vintage tools, as well as china, crystal, artworks, glass and silver will go on sale at an antique fair at the Otago Museum's Hutton Theatre today.
University of Otago geography graduate David Gawith is ''over the moon'' to have gained a Woolf Fisher Scholarship to support PhD studies at Cambridge University, next year.
Some University of Otago staff will join students today in a protest against Government proposals to cut the size of governing university councils.
A series of lively activities designed to showcase the Dunedin Gasworks Museum and the city's industrial heritage ended not with a bang but with several great balls of fire in a Gaslight Gala on Saturday.
The Otago University Students' Association hopes to join forces with Tertiary Education Union staff this week in a protest over proposed cuts in University Council representation and a mooted student tuition fee rise.
A $200,000 Health Research Council grant will enable University of Otago Prof Barry Taylor to lead ''urgently-needed'' research into the use of ''pepi-pod'' bassinets, intended to cut New Zealand's high rate of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (Sudi).
Dunedin firms should pursue growing trade opportunities with India, University of Otago's Vijay Devadas says.
Heritage-led regeneration in Dunedin is well under way, and Dunedin City Council heritage policy planner Glen Hazelton is positive about the future.
About 30 people, including several leading overseas scholars, will take part from today in a three-day conference at the University of Otago, devoted to the works of celebrated Irish writer James Joyce.
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce yesterday announced plans to cut the maximum size of university and wananga governing councils from 20 members to 12.
Otago Museum finance and commercial director Chris Farry has resigned, as the fallout continues over management restructuring at the museum.
The long-serving Otago Museum director collections, research and experience, Clare Wilson, is to leave the museum now that her post has been disestablished in a restructuring decision announced yesterday.
Genetics Otago, a University of Otago research centre, will stage a series of public events this month to raise awareness of revolutionary advances in research and health care in this ''extraordinary'' field.
The internet could become a useful tool to improve the mental health and wellbeing of some New Zealand veterans after military service abroad, University of Otago researcher Dr Shyamala Nada-Raja believes.
