A final service marking the closure of Roslyn Presbyterian Church in Highgate, Dunedin, yesterday was a bittersweet occasion.
University of Otago research, which could eventually boost recovery from strokes, has taken a "huge step forward" through the support of a giant Swiss-based pharmaceutical company, researchers say.
As obesity problems grow, serious thought should be given restricting television advertisements promoting junk food to youngsters, visiting US Associate Prof Dina Borzekowski says.
The Dunedin City Council should seek further community feedback before changing the Otago Settlers Museum's name, city councillor John Bezett says.
Some "Dickensian" provisions in the New Zealand legal system should be updated, Law Commission president Sir Grant Hammond says.
Sixty pots created by Czech-born master potter Mirek Smisek have gone on display at Otago Museum.
It would be "unfortunate" if some people thought the recommended new museum title "Toitu: Otago Settlers Museum" had partly bypassed the public consultation process, museum board chairwoman Dr Dorothy Page said yesterday.
Undertaking early "brain training" through an innovative University of Otago programme involving common children's games may be a better way of avoiding future ADHD problems than medication or other existing therapies.
Two of the most-loved animals at the Otago Museum, the Lawrence lions, will occupy pride of place when a "refreshed" Animal Attic gallery reopens to the public later this month.
The Otago Museum's collection audit pilot scheme, which has been combined with a new electronic artefact tagging system, has been progressing well, with more than 1000 artefacts tagged, organisers say.
Despite significant community backing for the status quo, the Dunedin City Council should seriously consider changing the Otago Settlers Museum's name, city councillor Lee Vandervis says.
World-leading research offering new hope for couples with fertility problems is among a series of University of Otago initiatives which have been boosted by more than $27 million in grants from the Health Research Council.
The Otago Settlers Museum Board yesterday excluded the public, citing potential "prejudice or disadvantage" to commercial activities, in order to discuss a possible change of the museum's name.
Dr Jacob Edmond, a poetry scholar and senior lecturer in the University of Otago English department, has become the latest recipient of the university's Carl Smith Medal and Rowheath Trust Award.
The high human and economic cost of neural tube defects would be greatly reduced by introducing mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid, University of Otago Prof Murray Skeaff says.
The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago is attracting growing overseas attention, and has also gained more than $1.5 million in contestable funding since 2009.
An innovative "Joint Clinic" for patients with osteoarthritis, which starts at Dunedin Hospital this week, could become a model for similar clinics elsewhere in the country.
Life will soon become more vibrant for up to 300 people working in Dunedin's central business district, when a fun physical fitness programme co-ordinated by Otago Polytechnic is extended to the area.
Dunedin's 2012 Puaka Matariki Festival will be the largest and most diverse in its four-year history, organisers say.
Many youngsters and their families swarmed into the Otago Museum yesterday for an afternoon of "astronomical adventures" to celebrate tomorrow's transit of Venus.