It might have been more like Heartbreak Hotel than Rock Around the Clock when Sam Gillions and Stacey Gee won the premier open section of the South Island inter-club rock and roll competition at the weekend.
An ACC policy change "significantly disadvantages" tertiary students with short-term injuries, by reducing academic support funding, a disability support group says.
Upgrading and updating our animal welfare legislation is vital to avoid damage to New international reputation, including as an agricultural exporter, University of Otago student Danielle Duffield says.
A "huge research project" to clarify original details has underpinned the successful restoration of the first electric tram car to operate in New Zealand, organisers say.
University of Otago geologist Dr Virginia Toy is involved in international scientific detective work aimed at solving mysteries behind the tsunami which devastated parts of Japan's east coast last year.
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei warned yesterday about the dangers of "divide and conquer" divisions between Maori leadership groups over the ownership of water.
A University of Otago-led study has highlighted the effectiveness of adding micronutrient powder to infant food in reducing anaemia and iron deficiencies among Cambodian infants.
University of Otago graduate Renee Wikaire has won an international study award, and six other Otago graduates and an Otago student have also gained Fulbright grants to study in the United States.
Three University of Otago academics with a passion for teaching, Dr Rhiannon Braund, Associate Prof Steve Dawson and Associate Prof Anthony Robins, have gained the university's latest annual teaching excellence awards.
Research involving brain stimulation to improve memory in people with dementia is one of several University of Otago projects boosted by more than $330,000 in grants from the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand.
He may be the vice-president of the National Science Museum of Thailand, but Thanakorn Palachai does not take himself too seriously when it comes to communicating science to young people.
A national survey launched by ACC claimant support group Acclaim Otago seems likely to shed new light on what has happened to some of the several thousand long-term ACC claimants recently "exited" from the scheme.
Dunedin children might be luckier than they realise because of the city's wealth of playgrounds and other attractive play areas, University of Otago researcher Dr Robin Quigg says.
The discovery of a new subatomic particle that could be the elusive Higgs boson highlights the value of the world's biggest atom-smasher, University of Otago physicist Dr Craig Rodger says.
The social exclusion of many young people, including from work and tertiary education, contributed strongly to the London riots last year, visiting Prof Derek Bolton said yesterday.
Felix Marx is a grateful man with a whale of a mission.
Taking medication is not the best answer to all forms of sadness, the Rev Dr Lynne Baab believes.
Cats may have nine lives but now they have also won a "people's choice" photographic award.
An internationally-respected diabetes and nutrition researcher, University of Otago Prof Jim Mann, has been given a prestigious international award at a recent conference in Greece.
Hosting a major international philosophy and psychiatry conference this week is a "feather in the cap" for the University of Otago and Dunedin, organisers say.