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.
A large whaling boat, built at Port Chalmers in 1871, has been moved out of the Otago Settlers Museum's Burnside building as the museum's $35 million redevelopment project continues.
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.
When more than 600 people converge on Dunedin for the Library and Information Association of New Zealand's centennial conference this weekend, many will reflect on how far the organisation has come since 1910.
Halting a cycle of multiple-fatality coal-mining disasters in this country will be difficult, given the inherent dangers of such mining, University of Otago geologist Dr Mike Palin says.
Mo Tatou, the biggest Maori touring exhibition to visit the Otago Museum for more than 20 years, received a stirring welcome yesterday.
The former University of Otago School of Mines should be re-established and other steps taken to further improve safety in the mining industry, after miners were trapped underground in the Pike River Coal mine, Dunedin mining consultant Ron King says.
University of Otago geologist Prof Dave Craw has special reasons to feel for the men who were trapped underground in the Pike River mine explosion.
The Otago Museum has largely completed its preparations to host Mo Tatou, a Ngai Tahu cultural exhibition which will be the biggest Maori touring show to visit the museum since Te Maori in the 1980s.
The recent controversy over the future of neurosurgery services in Otago-Southland highlights the need to make systematic "health impact assessments" before key policy decisions are made, University of Otago Prof Richard Morgan says.
New Zealand can do more to help rid the world of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, Swedish politician and peace campaigner Maj Britt Theorin says.
New Zealand would benefit considerably if more attention was paid to "Gross National Happiness" instead of simply to Gross National Product, a Canadian health specialist, Michael Pennock, says.
A proposed Countdown supermarket in South Dunedin has moved closer to reality after parties recently signed a draft consent order, and an Environment Court hearing was called off before its scheduled start yesterday.
University of Otago scientists Dr John Reynolds and Dr Ashton Bradley have both gained prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowships of up to $1 million each.
Widely-respected deer-health researcher, the University of Otago's Prof Frank Griffin, has been awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Pickering Medal, the country's top award for achievement in technology.
Dunedin archives advocate John Timmins is "totally unconvinced" by a Crown Law view that the country's chief archivist will become more independent through a controversial merger involving Archives New Zealand.
Gift to the Otago Museum of 17 artefacts representing the life of Sir Edmund Hillary also reflects the warm relationship he had with the museum.
Seventeen artefacts representing the life of Sir Edmund Hillary have been gifted to Otago Museum by June, Lady Hillary.
University of Otago students Paul Young and Michael Price will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Mexico this month and are determined that climate change issues will not be forgotten.
