This is the day Dunedin residents Luxmanan Selvanesan and his wife, Carthika Luxmanan, once feared would never come, after a ''devastating'' house fire destroyed some key parts of his University of Otago PhD research.
Tracy Josephs, a biochemistry researcher at the University of Otago, has sparked international scientific interest with a study which could also help shed new light on problems involving cell death in cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
A touring show which conjures up the heartbreak and hopes arising from the Canterbury earthquakes is proving a popular and, for some, a highly emotional experience at the Otago Museum.
The recently opened Toitu Otago Settlers Museum is making positive progress towards its new higher attendance target after more than 7000 visitors flocked in since last Friday, organisers say.
The Otago Museum Trust Board hopes to be able to appoint a successor to former museum chief executive Shimrath Paul early in February. Board chairman Graham Crombie told the board yesterday that applications had now been closed after the post had been advertised internationally.
University of Otago senior lecturer and classical musician Judy Bellingham has spoken out over ''an imbalance in the promotion of popular and classical music'', especially in the media.
Despite living in the Edinburgh of the South, passionate bagpiper Andrew McLean has found it frustratingly hard to find somewhere to practise without neighbours complaining about the skirl of the pipes.
Prof Robin Taylor, of the University of Otago Medical School, has spoken out against voluntary euthanasia, telling university graduates that arguments for this were ''fundamentally flawed'', though they might be ''subtly tempting''.
University of Otago botany PhD student Lars Ludwig has won a prestigious national botany award, the fourth Otago student in a row to win the annual award.
Celebrations marking the 140th anniversary of the arrival of the first Polish settlers in Port Chalmers have highlighted both their harrowing shipboard conditions and significant later contribution to Dunedin and Otago.
Associate Prof Darryl Tong, of the University of Otago, has urged physiotherapy and dentistry graduates to serve the community with integrity and, when necessary, to have the moral courage to say no.
New Zealand women's elite cycling squad member Sequoia Cooper will have at least two good reasons to celebrate when she graduates from the University of Otago today.
A James Cook Research Fellowship will help University of Otago Prof Lisa Matisoo-Smith trace the vast human journey from early origins in Africa to Maori settlement in New Zealand about 750 years ago.
A long and at times painful journey for the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum ended in celebration at a civic opening yesterday to mark the completion of the museum's $37.5 million redevelopment.
Rapid changes in policy by successive governments are reducing New Zealand's ability to overcome several major public health problems, including an internationally high obesity rate, University of Otago Prof Barry Taylor warns.
Icelandic fashion designer Rakel Blomsterberg (26) never dreamed she would have so many design opportunities when she began her Otago Polytechnic studies three years ago.
A record 500 Otago Polytechnic students will graduate in person in today's ceremony at the Regent Theatre.
World-class research involving neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, and two other University of Otago brain research topics has been boosted by nearly $300,000 in nationally awarded grants.
There is scope for the New Zealand Government to do more to counter the "mutual tragedy" highlighted by the recent Gaza war, several participants in a University of Otago panel discussionsuggested yesterday.
The University of Otago's Centre for International Health has received a grant of about $NZ500,000 through the European Commission (EC), to research links between tuberculosis (Tb) and type 2 diabetes.
