Health Research Council funding gained by Prof Bob Hancox will significantly extend the University of Otago's "highly successful" Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development study.
Health Research Council funding totalling about $21.6 million has boosted University of Otago medical research into a host of conditions, ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to schizophrenia, and into "intergenerational cycles of adversity".
A few pipers may be missing, but lovers of Scottish culture will be in for a treat when a centenary of piping and dancing is celebrated in Dunedin this weekend.
About 20 amateur radio operators, including some from the North Island, will travel from Dunedin to Shag Valley, Otago, next week to celebrate the first transworld radio broadcast, made from the area in 1924.
Malaysian university chancellor and University of Otago dentistry graduate Dr Sulaiman bin Haji Daud combined business with pleasure when he visited Otago University to sign an agreement involving joint medical education yesterday.
Dunedin civic authorities and community groups should "mobilise" to counter the country's soaring winter death rates by improving home insulation and maintenance, housing researcher Prof Philippa Howden-Chapman says.
People with a common genetic variation face a "double whammy''- being more likely to become addicted to smoking and also more likely to contract lung cancer or arterial disease, an international study shows.
Some residents have voiced concern the quiet environment in Hobson St, St Clair, will be adversely affected by proposals to establish a 60-child early childhood learning centre there.
University of Otago academics are keeping their feet on the ground despite winning Otago University awards for teaching excellence.
Fonterra plans to close its Dunedin milk tanker depot in Donald St, with the potential loss of nine more jobs in the city.
An unusual ceremony has highlighted the high international standing of archaeologists at the University of Otago anthropology department.
Some residents are concerned about an early childhood learning centre proposed for a quiet St Clair street, but proponents say the centre will be a good neighbour and have only minor effects.
When discussing the road toll, southern region coroner David Crerar strongly dislikes the term "road accident".
About 2000 people, mainly high school pupils, flocked to the first day of an annual careers expo at the Dunedin Centre yesterday.
The University of Otago has won praise from Association of University Staff vice-president Maori Dr Fiona Te Momo for its efforts to develop "positive treaty partnerships" with Maori tribal groups.
Dr Paul Tapsell, a former senior manager at the Auckland Museum, has been appointed to a professorship in Maori studies at the University of Otago.
The "exceptional relationship" between the University of Otago and its local community has been threatened at times by disorderly behaviour by a small minority of students, university vice-chancellor Prof David Skegg says.
Graduating from the University of Otago with a master of music degree and singing a Handel aria at the graduation ceremony were special moments for prize-winning mezzo soprano Claire Barton at the weekend.
Award-winning poet Cilla McQueen has urged University of Otago graduates to help look after our "beautiful golden goose of a world".
Dr Richard Webby (right) works with his mentor, fellow University of Otago graduate and world authority on bird flu Prof Robert Webster, at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2003.Photo: Supplied.
One highly-respected University of Otago microbiology graduate has been replaced by another as director of a World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory co-ordinating international efforts to counter bird and animal flu viruses.