A quarter of a century since the last time they last took part in a televised University Challenge quiz event, University of Otago students are back in action, and are still winning.
Otago is a province with a rich history of establishing firsts. We have led the way in many fields and that tradition continues. Researchers at the University of Otago are attracting international attention, with some granted millions of dollars for cutting-edge projects. So what are they up to? Reporter John Gibb, in a fortnightly series, does his own research on the researchers.
Hannah Lowe models a fashion creation by Eilish Lie-Olesen, an Otago Polytechnic first-year bachelor of fashion design student, last night as part of Collections, an annual polytechnic fashion show.
New Zealand should remain alert to avoid any misuse of credit information, after University of Otago research highlighted links between personal credit scores and heart health.
What eats flesh, weighs about eight tonnes, and makes a great ambassador for science?
Jess Lawrence is delighted to have taken part in a successful trial of a rotavirus vaccine that could eventually save the lives of millions of infants in developing countries.
New Zealand should make more use of its agricultural expertise to help developing countries counter diseases that spread between animals and humans, Prof John Crump says.
Thousands of cruise ship passengers flocked into central Dunedin yesterday during the busiest day of the city's latest cruise season.
The fundraising concert on Saturday night has once more highlighted the value of the Mayfair Theatre as a key community performance venue, organisers say.
The painful realities of war were sometimes being obscured by overly-emotional responses to World War 1 commemorations, Australian historian Prof Joy Damousi says.
War memorials and much of the associated ''memorialisation'' response, particularly from some senior decision-makers, tended to make future wars more likely, Prof Richard Jackson warned yesterday.
Protests over the Vietnam War and antinuclear issues contributed strongly to New Zealand's sense of identity as an independent nation, a Wellington historian, Dr Jock Phillips, said yesterday.
A University of Otago scientist and senior administrator, Prof Keith Hunter, has been awarded the Marsden Medal, a national science honour.
More than 800 million people are still haunted by hunger and the human right to food security must be upheld, Prof Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food, is urging.
University of Otago Mozart Fellow Jeremy Mayall's latest composition, Flutter, was inspired by a close encounter with the ''magic'' of brightly coloured butterflies at the Otago Museum's Tropical Forest.
University of Otago academics and senior students have gained five of the seven nationally-allocated scholarships in the latest Rutherford Foundation Trust Awards.
The moa became extinct more swiftly than previously thought, little more than a century after the country's first human inhabitants arrived, a new study involving University of Otago researchers concludes.
A ''hard-hitting'' report by the Auditor-general could help boost public confidence in ACC, but only if its recommendations are fully implemented, Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell says.
The principle that all New Zealanders, rich or poor, should have equal access to justice is being challenged by growing problems over court affordability, Justice Helen Winkelmann warned yesterday.
Otago is a province with a rich history of establishing firsts. We have led the way in many fields, and that tradition continues. Researchers at the University of Otago are attracting international attention, with some granted millions of dollars for cutting-edge projects. So what are they up to? Reporter John Gibb, in a fortnightly series, does his own research on the researchers.