The University of Otago achieved the highest university operating surplus in the country last year, at $31.1 million, figures released this week by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) show.
Dr Ian Barber, a University of Otago archaeologist, has gained a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, to study overseas, in Utah, in the United States, next year.
Western culture seems "afraid of sadness", but this "soulful emotion" actually offers many opportunities for personal growth and development, visiting Australian counsellor and author Karen Masman says.
Critics say the ACC appeals system is threatening to burst at the seams, with review applications soaring to 9900 during the past year and 1446 cases stacked up at the district court.
Nineteen overseas scholars have converged on Dunedin for the biggest international German studies conference to be staged in the city in the past 20 years.
Research which aims to help children give accurate testimony in court cases is among a series of University of Otago projects boosted by $10.67 million in the latest "fiercely contested" Marsden Fund round.
Arrowtown helicopter pilot and businessman Mark Cotton had only a split second to think when his $750,000 Hughes 500 helicopter suddenly lost height and hit the water in a remote area near the mouth of Milford Sound this week.
Police are investigating a "tragic incident" in which a 62-year-old pedestrian was crushed by a runaway truck at Company Bay, Dunedin.
The Otago Youth Adventure Trust and Milton Rotary Tramping Club was last night named Clutha's premier volunteer grouping of 2010.
A three-strong team of "Mind Wizards" from Taieri College emerged as the overall winner after an unusual mental challenge to determine who were Otago's "Kids of Steel".
The Accident Compensation Corporation intends to cut at least 1150 more clients from its long-term claimants list by the middle of next year.
International students involved with the University of Otago Language Centre and Foundation Year studies have given several boxes of food for Christchurch earthquake relief.
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust is disappointed a Dunedin City Council hearings committee has approved demolition of a group of historic buildings in Princes St.
University of Otago scientists' key discovery on a Dunedin beach highlights the role of bull-kelp "rafts" in transporting many marine plants and animals huge distances across the world's oceans.
A University of Otago health researcher, Prof Philip Hill, is part of a scientific consortium that has used genome scanning to identify a gene associated with increased susceptibility to tuberculosis (Tb) in African populations.
Former Silver Ferns netball coach Dame Lois Muir is urging more Dunedin people to volunteer to help when Rugby World Cup games are played in the city next year.
Relatively cheap and simple measures can protect many of Dunedin's heritage buildings from much of the kind of earthquake damage evident in Christchurch, structural engineer Lou Robinson says.
From modest beginnings, two young Dunedin film-makers are headed for the top, having just won the Platinum Best Film Award at the 2010 Colorado International Film Festival.
New Zealand would benefit more from early intervention to help vulnerable young people and their families rather than by building more "Milton Hiltons", University of Otago Prof Richie Poulton said this week.
For the second consecutive year, University of Otago law students have won the president's prize for the best overall performance in a national university law competition.
