Staff at the University of Otago's colleges of residence and university chaplains are rallying to help students from Christchurch who have been distressed and concerned by Tuesday's magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
Everything you ever wanted to know about cooking "road kill" - and a little bit more - was revealed at an offbeat Orientation event at the Otago Museum Reserve yesterday.
The Otago Museum has achieved a better-than-budget operating outcome seven months into the latest financial year, despite its popular tropical forest attraction generating less income than expected.
A Dunedin City Council report has identified potential areas for savings and belt-tightening in some Otago Museum costs but museum organisers say parts of the document are "inaccurate" and could create a "misleading impression".
Six hardy contestants braved water bombs, drizzle and slippery underfoot conditions in a lively horizontal bungy event as part of Orientation Week in Dunedin yesterday.
An ornate plaster ceiling which has emerged during demolition work at the Otago Settlers Museum will be retained in the final design of the museum's $35 million redevelopment project.
A trail-blazing Otago Museum exhibition is likely to be viewed by up to half a million people in Shanghai, later this year, organisers say.
Moving a well-established journalism training course from Timaru to Dunedin this year has added "new energy" and boosted student numbers, organisers say.
A trend towards increased indoor living, and the growing popularity of inner-city apartments, raise issues about potential vitamin D deficiency through reduced access to sunlight, University of Otago biochemist Associate Prof Tony Merriman says.
Extensive preparations for the English cricket team's recent successful Ashes campaign in Australia included highly individualised dietary advice and support, an international sports nutritionist, Jeni Pearce, said yesterday.
National nutritional surveys are the "cornerstone of food and nutrition monitoring" in New Zealand, but thought is needed about how the running of future surveys can be ensured, University of Otago Associate Prof Winsome Parnell said.
Psychology researcher Prof Harlene Hayne has been appointed University of Otago vice-chancellor, the first woman in this role.
A fish pond at the Otago Museum's tropical forest attraction has recently become slightly too popular, with two people accidentally slipping in.
Members of a group of former Otago Museum staff are welcoming the prospect of "fresh blood" at the museum's governing trust board, including in its leadership.
Newborn Marshall Barclay's arrival last week marked a "major milestone" in a Dunedin study into the prevention of overweight in infancy.
Dunedin chartered accountant Graham Crombie and city councillor Kate Wilson were elected, respectively, as chairman and deputy chairwoman of the Otago Museum Trust Board yesterday.
A further fall in Dunedin house prices last month reflected the weak overall national economy, commentators said.
The Dunedin Gasworks Museum is "hugely important" both internationally and for the city's own history, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.
The apparel industry is still dogged by problems resulting from poor guesswork about garment sizes, and many people still cannot find clothes that fit them, a leading US researcher, Dr Kathleen Robinette, says.
Advanced imaging techniques are allowing the recovery of lost information from key heritage documents, including the handwritten draft of the American Declaration of Independence, leading US-based preservation scientist Dr Fenella France says.