Otago Museum Trust Board chairman Graham Crombie expects a "good range of quality candidates" will seek the museum's top job.
New Zealand's internationally high workplace death toll and high levels of melanoma and rheumatic fever show there is no room for complacency over public health, Prof Jennie Connor, of the University of Otago, says.
School-based clinics are helping to counter "quite disgraceful" levels of rheumatic fever in some parts of New Zealand, University of Otago researcher Dr Simon Horsburgh says.
Museum organisers do not want to "overwhelm the visitor with lots of text" when the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum reopens to the public after its $40 million redevelopment.
Problems with the Ministry of Education's new payroll system are a "nightmare" and "absolutely unacceptable", PPTA president Robin Duff says.
The owners of the former St Patrick's Church School and Hall in Lawrence, a distinctive, category 1 listed building, have received a $60,000 grant to help with conservation work.
The public has responded "very positively" to the recent redevelopment of the Otago Museum's much-loved Animal Attic, museum organisers say.
Corporate sponsorship holds the key to completing community fundraising for the $40 million redevelopment of the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, museum organisers say.
University of Otago historian Prof Angela McCarthy has been appointed to a visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh, one of the world's top-ranking tertiary institutions.
New Zealand's high melanoma rate is "unacceptable" and more needs to be done to protect the nation's school pupils from excessive sun exposure, Associate Prof Tony Reeder says.
University of Otago researcher Dr Paul Tankard has sparked international media attention after tracking down a series of lost illustrations for The Lord of the Rings, which were highly praised by author J.R.R. Tolkien but never published.
The high rate of workplace deaths and injuries in Dunedin, Otago and the rest of the country is "unacceptable" and must be reduced, a former Unions Otago convener says.
New Zealand cannot afford to be complacent or rest on its laurels over the threats posed by nuclear weapons, disarmament campaigner Kate Dewes says.
Only a tiny minority of former long-term ACC clients have gained full-time work after being removed from the scheme, a national survey indicates.
Earlier fears that a World of Wearable Art exhibition at the Otago Museum could incur a sizeable loss have been allayed, thanks to a positive public response.
More than a dozen University of Otago students have combined a spot of gardening and a picnic at a shared campus garden as part of part of Environment Week activities.
University of Otago dentistry academics Dr Colleen Murray and Dr Jonathan Leichter have received a grant to help extend a successful oral health programme from the Cook Islands to Dunedin's Pacific community.
Otago Museum chief executive Shimrath Paul has resigned to take up a senior medical centre management post in Indonesia.
The Dunedin environmental group, Save the Otago Peninsula Inc (STOP), has received a $1375 charitable grant to provide plants to enhance the habitat of the endangered jewelled gecko.
Dunedin writer and poet David Howard has been named next year's Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago.