University of Otago doctoral researcher Barrie Irving is urging caution in interpreting a study which suggests many 15- and 16-year-old Dunedin schoolgirls want to become hairdressers, kindergarten teachers and air hostesses.
A "miscarriage of justice" involving Peter Ellis highlights the need to establish a Criminal Cases Review Commission to redress other injustices in a speedier way, Dunedin author Dr Lynley Hood says.
Parents are urged not to leave their youngsters unsupervised at Otago beaches this summer, even when lifeguards are present.
Most people think of penguins as cold-water or polar birds, but latest research linked to the University of Otago sheds new light on that traditional view.
The Otago Museum is inviting visitors to face up to the future in an unusual way, through a do-it-yourself face-changing show.
Recent University of Otago dentistry doctoral graduates Dr Osama Alothmani and his wife, Dr Amna Siddiqui, have at least three special reasons to celebrate.
Enrolment restrictions have made the University of Otago's next summer school somewhat smaller, but organisers say it remains a highly popular institution.
Fulbright New Zealand executive director Mele Wendt highlighted the importance of education and of "managing failure and change" in an address to University of Otago graduates.
Further scientific research is needed to determine the cause of the avian diphtheria which has recently affected yellow-eyed penguin chicks on Otago Peninsula, the Department of Conservation says.
French-born University of Otago graduand Marieke Blondet has an unusual claim to fame, as the first Otago humanities student to complete "cotutelle" studies - involving twin doctorates in French and English.
University of Otago graduates will need all the skills they have gained at their "world-class university" to face the challenges of the future, Royal Society of New Zealand chief executive Dr Di McCarthy says.
A joint review of aspects of Otago Museum funding is a positive process and not intended to punish claimed deficiencies at the museum, organisers say.
Damian Kearns, who graduates from the University of Otago today, has chosen an academic road less travelled, by working five days a week at the New Zealand Automobile Association during his studies.
Although its chairwoman and deputy chairman are changing, the Otago Museum Trust Board will maintain considerable continuity and strength, the board deputy chairman Malcolm Farry says.
Otago Polytechnic staff and students have joined forces to develop displays simulating life as it was in Dunedin when the bus station foyer in the Otago Settlers Museum building, formerly the New Zealand Railways building, opened in 1940.
Two women are dead after two unrelated incidents in Southland this weekend.
Many University of Otago graduation records are being set today and a leading University of Otago dentistry researcher, Prof Murray Thomson, will also achieve a significant personal milestone.
Dunedin scientist Dr Simon Cox, who ventured into many remote valleys in the Southern Alps never before visited by a geologist, has won New Zealand's leading geoscience award for his map-related research.
Visiting Japanese drum team members (from left) Emiko Okumura, Kentaro Hikichi and Jessie Gibbs perform near Otago Museum in Dunedin yesterday during a South Island tour.
The eight-strong team from the International Pacific College (IPC), a tertiary institution based in Palmerston North, entertained about 60 onlookers with a lively performance.
A planned investigation into the most cost-effective form of osteoarthritis treatment is among several University of Otago research projects boosted by about $3.1 million in new funding for up-and-coming researchers.