Fifty senior secondary school pupils from throughout the country have converged on Dunedin for the 10th anniversary of a national science education camp.
US president Joe Biden must strive to heal the nation’s divisions with an ambitious New Deal that works for the many not the few, a Dunedin academic says.
Dunedin Botanic Garden staff and the University of Otago botany department’s Associate Prof Janice Lord are part of international moves to save the rare corpse plant.
A US international student, returning at last to Dunedin, is unlikely to forget the taste of her first cup of coffee after release from two weeks in managed isolation.
Smelly socks, a dead rat in a ceiling, and rotting cabbage — people recently visiting Dunedin’s infamously smelly corpse plant reacted to the stink in many different ways.
An Otago Daily Times article with a photograph of a little owl (Athene noctua) has caused a veritable owlvalanche of emails providing other owl photographs and sighting details.
Dunedin educationist Kaitlyn Martin disagrees with blanket phone bans at schools, and believes phones can help involve some hard-to-reach pupils in science education.
Secondary pupils from throughout New Zealand have felt an "extra spark of joy" about taking part in the latest Hands-On at Otago summer camp, after earlier Covid-19 restrictions.
The Government should avoid banning people entering New Zealand from specific countries where there may be variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, Dunedin researchers say.
Students at the University of Otago’s latest Summer School are adding a buzz to the campus and early enrolments may be up on last year, organisers say.
Otago Chamber of Commerce chief executive Dougal McGowan is resigning this week ahead of the formation of Business South, a new business advocacy body.