More than 1750 people will graduate from the University of Otago at a series of five graduation ceremonies at the Regent Theatre, Dunedin, this month, starting today.
About 1345 of those graduands will graduate in person, which is believed to be the largest number to graduate in person at any set of Otago ceremonies in May.
University of Otago law students Alex Boock and Rob Clarke have won an international client-interviewing contest in Dublin, the first time a team from Otago has won the annual event.
Happiness may be nothing to sneeze at but it definitely is "catching", visiting Welsh public health leader and happiness researcher Prof Sir Mansel Aylward says.
Overseas actors working on The Hobbit films are still protected by union agreements negotiated abroad but New Zealand film production staff have been "stripped of their rights", Associate Prof Ian McAndrew, of the University of Otago, says.
Dunedin scientist Dr Virginia Toy is on a research vessel which has set a international drilling depth record off the Japanese coast, as researchers strive to discover more about causes of last year's massive tsunami.
Some University of Otago lectures had to be postponed and power was lost to the central university campus area, including the central library, during a power cut which lasted about 25 minutes, starting about 11am yesterday.
The mighty may have fallen a few times at a Dunedin police open day at the weekend, but they all had smiles on their faces.
Good building regulations helped save thousands of lives in last year's Christchurch earthquake, Dunedin North Labour MP Dr David Clark said at the weekend.
Labour Party list MP Maryan Street told a packed public meeting yesterday her proposed "end of life choices" private member's Bill would avoid the "meaningless prosecution" of people like Prof Sean Davison.
After the success of a recent guided walk through Dunedin's warehouse district to mark World Heritage Day, the Southern Heritage Trust plans to double the number of its guided walks.
Dunedin historian Prof Judith Bennett is highlighting the plight of Maori and Pacific people searching for their fathers, who were US servicemen in the Pacific during the World War 2.
Former Dunedin resident Lieutenant Joseph Lamb, who died at the Western Front the day after his 24th birthday, in 1916, is forgotten no more.
Hundreds of Dunedin tertiary students are already living "day to day" and facing serious financial hardship, student leaders and student welfare organisers say.
New Zealand water management still gives the impression of "mono-cultural decision-making", University of Otago senior law lecturer Jacinta Ruru says.
Former Dunedin photographer David Lloyd vividly remembers nearly falling from the belltower balcony in the Octagon while taking one of the historic photographs which features in the Otago Museum's Focal Point exhibition.
Feeling misunderstood? Then some new University of Otago research might just provide the answer ... get a dog.
Your Face Here, one of the most popular free exhibitions developed at the Otago Museum, is continuing to find new audiences and will be presented at Palmerston North next month.
The Andersons Bay Sea Scout Group has achieved the greatest competitive success in its 90-year history by taking second place in a recent National Sea Scout Regatta at Lyttelton.
The Otago Settlers Museum has let a $350,000 contract for the construction of "new look" exhibition cases, which will play a key role in the museum's $38 million redevelopment.
Delphi Fang, of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, has become the first person to work at the Otago Museum under a series of staff exchange agreements signed with overseas museums.