New "parking friendly" notices to warn out-of-town motorists about parking offences will be issued in Dunedin during the lead-up to the Rugby World Cup next month.
The recent opening of a major new exhibition, "Te Ao Maori: Maori Treasures from the Otago Museum", in China reflected a further advance in the museum's relationship with the Shanghai Museum, organisers said.
Six albatrosses are likely to end their windswept wanderings at the Otago Museum.
They may have started small, but bigger things might be to come.
Otago Museum Trust Board member Associate Prof Peter Dearden is seeking clarification about how the museum is maintaining some specialised skills, including in conservation, given contracting out of some services.
Four men, aged 19 and 20, and believed to be University of Otago students, were spoken to by police and will be referred to the university proctor, after entering a yard at the former Gardens Tavern, in North Dunedin, yesterday.
A large mural by Dunedin sculptor John Middleditch has been given to the Otago Museum and will be displayed in the Southern Land, Southern People gallery.
The University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic scooped nearly 25% of national teaching excellence awards in a series of "remarkably good" results over the past five years.
University of Otago students striving to retain student associations in the face of a proposed law change are planning a protest on campus today as part of a national day of action.
The most valiant of song birds could be forgiven for falling silent in snow-covered Dunedin yesterday, but a great deal of tweeting was actually going on, thanks to an innovative University of Otago conference.
Otago Settlers Museum Board member Lee Vandervis, who is a critic of museum redevelopment project costs, has also taken issue with the museum's promotional spending.
Otago Settlers Museum Board member Lee Vandervis yesterday took issue with the about $8 million cost of the museum redevelopment's final stage and asked if savings could be made.
ACC claimants should not have to take court action to avoid "intrusive" and unnecessary work fitness tests, a distressful experience as was highlighted in a recent Supreme Court case, Dunedin ACC campaigner Denise Powell says.
More than 1.1 million visitors have flocked to Otago Museum's Discovery World science centre since it opened its doors on August 9, 1991.
Former Otago Settlers Museum conservator Francois Leurquin is no longer at the museum and a staff member at a Cambridge University institute has been named the "successful candidate" to become the museum's new conservator.
Writers' two greatest vices, procrastination and perfectionism, were highlighted by award-winning educator Hugh Kearns during two motivational workshops for University of Otago postgraduate students yesterday.
Email "addiction" has become the biggest single cause of reduced productivity among writers and many others using computers, visiting psychologist Hugh Kearns says.
University of Otago senior lecturer Dr Clinton Golding has been named as one of Australia's top teachers.
The true colours of a historic Cobb and Co stage coach have come shining through, thanks to cleaning work being undertaken during the Otago Settlers Museum's $35 million redevelopment project.
Racist beliefs are totally undermined by the now widely-accepted theory that all modern humans have a common female ancestor who lived in Africa, visiting scientist Prof Rebecca Cann says.