Over the years Silver Ferns netball squad member Shannon Francois has got used to sitting her University of Otago pharmacy examinations in some fairly unusual places.
University of Otago vice-chancellor Harlene Hayne yesterday urged future women tertiary academic leaders to use their creativity to manage the "work-life blur".
Many people are being lulled into a false sense of security over their precious family photographs, stored on computers, but such digital images can easily be lost, researcher Dawn Coburn warns.
More than 10,000 people attended the recent "Off the Wall: World of Wearable Art Up Close" show at the Otago Museum, and entry charges came close to meeting costs, organisers said.
As the opening of the redeveloped Toitu Otago Settlers Museum draws near, project managers yesterday handed over control of the final stage of the museum's $38.5 million redevelopment.
Backed by a $159,520 grant, the University of Otago is setting up a national project to mobilise an army of "citizen scientists" to monitor the biodiversity of many small sections of the country's intertidal coast.
University of Otago medical graduate Dr Ayesha Verrall has gained a $250,000 scholarship to undertake research to help clarify why some people appear resistant to tuberculosis despite being heavily exposed.
University of Otago mathematician Prof Michael Hendy was presented with a national science award, the Shorland medal, at a function in Wellington last night.
Nom*D creative director Margi Robertson is delighted her long-established fashion label is providing the first of a series of contemporary Dunedin garments to be featured at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.
First rugby, then rock 'n' roll, and now research.
As bidders' hearts raced, Otago Polytechnic's latest Charity House sold at auction for $195,000 at the weekend, lifting to about $550,000 the overall funds raised for Otago charities through the project.
Dunedin ACC campaigner Dr Denise Powell is urging the country's medical system and ACC to improve their handling of traumatic brain injuries after a major report warned they were at "epidemic levels".
No-one was hurt when the driver of a small rental bus pulling a luggage trailer lost control of the vehicle and crashed on the Twizel-Omarama Rd, about 8km north of Omarama, shortly before 8.30am on Saturday.
Otago Rose Society president Maureen Viggo can count on one thing with roses - they always bring a smile to her face.
A major touring show focusing on the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake will help convey the impact and the science behind one of New Zealand's biggest natural disasters, Otago Museum officials say.
New Zealand could improve the "critical" human rights situation in West Papua by pursuing the peacemaking role that proved successful during the earlier Bougainville conflict, human rights advocate Frederika Korain says.
University of Otago geologist Prof Ewan Fordyce and philosopher Prof Alan Musgrave were yesterday presented with national awards for research excellence at a Royal Society event in Auckland.
The University of Otago has established two new research centres, and boosted some of its funding by 50% for all its research centres.
An internationally respected University of Otago microbiologist, Prof Gregory Cook, will receive a distinguished speaker award from the New Zealand Microbiological Society at its annual conference next week.
Otago Museum marketing and development co-ordinator Juliet Pierce is expecting to gain further insights into museum-based science education for young people through a staff exchange trip to the National Science Museum of Thailand in Bangkok.