Otago University Students Association (OUSA) will use its van to make a mercy dash to Christchurch later this week, carrying water and tinned food to help students in the quake-affected city.
United States physician Dr Leo Celi is urging big changes, including replacing the doctor's traditional white coat and tie, to reduce the burden of hospital-acquired infections.
University of Otago graduates who developed a successful health promotion and assessed a screening tool to identify chemotherapy patients at risk of malnutrition have won national dietetics awards.
Jeni Pearce, a University of Otago graduate and leading international sports nutritionist, is going to great lengths to keep in touch these days.
More than 400 delegates will converge on Dunedin this week to attend two national health conferences involving dietitians and disease-control nurses.
The Otago Museum and Otago Settlers Museum are due to receive substantial legacies, totalling about $400,000, from the estate of former Dunedin educator and vocational guidance officer Freda Carswell Stuckey.
Firefighters used an aerial appliance to rescue a stranded teenager from the second-floor roof of the National Bank building in Hanover St, Dunedin, on Saturday.
Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin has praised firefighters for their dedication and professionalism in keeping the city's residents safe.
Two Dunedin men, both aged 23, suffered moderate hypothermia and were flown to Dunedin Hospital by the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter after a 4.5m motorboat capsized on a bar at Taieri Mouth on Saturday.
Tori Locke is never far from a good book.
Two young southern right whales made a spectacular entry to Otago Harbour about 2.30pm yesterday, swimming in as far as a channel marker out from Wellers Rock, before leaving, close to the Aramoana Mole.
The Otago Museum's single credit card was recently used to buy more butterfly pupae from Costa Rica, after usual supplies from the Philippines for the museum's Tropical Forest attraction were interrupted by a heatwave.
Proposals to move an historic Ja-class steam locomotive to a new display shed near the Dunedin Railway Station will give the Otago Settlers Museum a "huge boost", museum officials say.
A new agreement between the Otago Museum and a big science centre in Singapore will pave the way for Otago science exhibits to be exported to Singapore, museum organisers say.
When Peter Dulgar graduates from the University of Otago with a PhD today, he will celebrate a rare feat - a degree from the world's most northerly English-speaking university and another from the southernmost.
Academic achievements were "part of a journey, but not the destination", Tertiary Education Commission chairman Sir Wira Gardiner told University of Otago graduates at the weekend.
University of Otago scientists have returned to Dunedin from the Auckland Islands with a wealth of data reflecting the continuing recovery of southern right whales, including the most comprehensive recordings of their calls in New Zealand waters.
The Otago Museum remains popular, despite a 24% drop in visits from last year's record 628,716 attendance, museum officials say.
Visiting English legal scholar Prof Graham Zellick QC believes the concept of a Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates possible miscarriages of justice in England, will eventually be accepted in many other countries.
About 80 Dunedin and Mosgiel workers yesterday voiced concern about a proposed weakening of their workplace rights, ahead of a "Fairness at Work" rally planned for Sunday.
