Dunedin playwright Sarah McDougall will today become the first person to graduate from the University of Otago with a recently established master of fine arts degree in theatre studies.
Dunedin businessman and former community pharmacist Peter Barron and sister Wendy Barron will make University of Otago history today when they graduate from the university together with MBAs.
A decision on a restructuring proposal to cut a senior management post at the Otago Museum has been delayed a week.
The Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust aims to raise awareness of two significant scholarships, providing a total of $30,000, to encourage research and professional development involving medical students and rural health professionals.
Ngai Tahu kaiwhakahaere Sir Mark Solomon has highlighted the need for more cultural awareness and relationship-building to support New Zealand's rapidly growing trade with China.
The role of University of Otago chemistry professor Jim McQuillan as a co-discoverer of the most sensitive analytical spectroscopic technique to be developed was recently highlighted at an English event celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Dunedin visual artist Brendan Bransgrove has taken another step towards his dream of becoming a boutique beer-maker, after winning his second national home-brewing contest at the weekend.
The likely loss of a senior manager at the Otago Museum through proposed restructuring is a ''tragedy'', former Otago Museum Trust Board chairwoman Margaret Collins says.
Dramatic vignettes at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum's formed part of a recent successful school-linked education programme.
A "christening' and plenty of Antarctic myth-breaking last night were features of the New Zealand International Film Festival opening at Dunedin's Regent Theatre.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull yesterday thanked the Otago Museum and everyone else who had helped deliver a ''new lease of life'' for the redeveloped former Dunedin North post office.
The Toitu Otago Settlers Museum is close to awarding the contract to construct its planned ''Ghosts of Wall Street'' exhibition, focusing on a historic timber causeway uncovered on the site of the Wall Street mall.
On the eve of Hiroshima Day, Prof Kevin Clements, of the University of Otago, is urging New Zealand not to ''rest on its antinuclear laurels''.
A ''striking'' range of European fashion garments from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recently donated to the Otago Museum, also reflects a surprising Dunedin link with the Belgian royal family.
A ''remarkable'' $1.6 million redevelopment of the former Dunedin North post office as an Otago Museum exhibition area is almost complete and the first public display will open early next month.
Manual therapy or regular physical exercise programmes can significantly improve the lives of many people with painful osteoarthritis, new University of Otago research shows.
University of Otago zoologist Prof Robert Poulin, a world leader in parasite ecology and evolution, has been awarded the university's highest research honour, the Distinguished Research Medal.
One of the Otago Museum's most senior managers seems likely to go as a result of a restructuring proposal to reduce the museum's management team from four to three.
Dunedin has been in the diplomatic spotlight this week, during a three-day visit from several Asean country ambassadors to New Zealand.
Seismic activity on several fault lines near Dunedin could generate similar-sized earthquakes to the 6.5 magnitude quake which hit Wellington, seismologist Dr Andrew Gorman says.
