The Otago Museum has received a $45,000 grant from the Dr Marjorie Barclay Trust, which will be used to develop a planned Otago's Ocean exhibition.
Three sitting members of the University of Otago's governing council have been re-elected after a postal vote involving the university's Court of Convocation, and some votes cast by graduates living thousands of kilometres away.
Three University of Otago College of Education graduands at the college's Southland campus have received $500 scholarships for showing excellence in their teacher education programmes.
More than 500 members of the public took the chance to learn more about the Dunedin police and a host of community volunteers, including Search and Rescue personnel, during an open day at the weekend.
More than 250 motorbikes packed into the central and lower Octagon, Dunedin, at the weekend during the annual Bikers Rights of New Zealand (Bronz) "toy run" event.
Main South Rd Green Island was swarming with residents and visitors during a successful annual market day on Saturday.
Secretary for Education Karen Sewell has urged University of Otago graduates to retain their sense of outrage over injustice.
A smarter way of cutting possum numbers, by using contraceptive "pills", has moved closer to reality through research undertaken by University of Otago PhD graduand Alexandra Kafka.
The Otago Settlers Museum's popular end-of-year Pixie Town show reopens to the public at 10am today, with its usual season extended by a week until January 16.
Genetic research which could help pave the way for new therapies for gout, a severely disabling condition, is among a series of University of Otago projects boosted by $1.71 million in Lottery Grants Board funding.
Long-serving Otago Museum Trust Board chairwoman Margaret Collins is "shocked and disappointed" she has been replaced as Clutha District Council representative on the board.
West Coast novelist and poet Keri Hulme finds herself returning again and again to the writings of Robert Burns.
Former Dunedin Public Library manager Allison Dobbie, of Auckland, has been granted honorary life membership of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa.
Some people find statistics utterly dull, but University of Otago statistician John Harraway and 35 senior Dunedin teachers are determined to prove them wrong.
The best of the past was celebrated and exciting prospects for the future were explored at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa's centenary conference in Dunedin this week, organisers said.
The words "irrepressible" and "librarian" seem, logically, to lead to two others - Mary Ronnie, the former Dunedin city and national librarian.
Four University of Otago scientists and Singaporean colleagues have been awarded more than $2 million by the Health Research Council and a Singaporean funding body to undertake cancer research.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull yesterday launched a fundraising appeal to show the city's solidarity with the Grey District, on the West Coast, after the Pike River coal mine disaster.
New Zealand underwater hockey representative Bailey Lovett is still trying to catch her breath after winning the $50,000 Prime Minister's Future Scientist Prize, to support her planned study at the University of Otago.
University of Otago graduate Iona Mylek, who is ''hugely concerned'' over global poverty and development issues, has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship.