China's rapid economic growth has not only been good for the Chinese, with massive reductions in poverty, but has also benefited New Zealand and the world economy, Dunedin-born economist Prof Peter Robertson said yesterday.
Backyard bird watchers in Dunedin and elsewhere in Otago are being asked to take part in the latest annual garden bird survey, which starts today.
New Zealand is on the brink of "an era of enormous trade and economic opportunity", much of it involving our increasingly lucrative export trade with China, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully predicts.
Surgeon Andrew Greensmith played a leading role in the operation that last year separated the conjoined Bangladeshi twins, Krishna and Tishna. He returns to Dunedin to take part in the city's International Science Festival next month.
When Prof Peter Robertson, an economist at the University of Western Australia, flew out of Perth on Wednesday night, bound for New Zealand, Kevin Rudd was still the Australian Prime Minister and Julia Gillard his deputy.
University of Otago physicist Dr Jevon Longdell is part of an international scientific team which has just developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world.
China's emergence as a growing world power also gives New Zealand the chance to play a new international role, as a bridge between East and West, University of Otago Prof Robert Patman says.
An operating deficit of nearly $400,000 in the exhibitions section of the Otago Museum's accounts, some of it linked to the "Survival Factor" science show, is no cause for concern, officials say.
Time is rapidly running out for the Dunedin Fire Brigade Restoration Society to find a suitable home for many of the city's old fire engines.
The University of Otago's Centre for International Health has gained a $540,000 grant to pursue research which could help eliminate tuberculosis worldwide.
The University of Otago yesterday withdrew from sale the transmitter used by Prof Robert Jack to broadcast New Zealand's first voice and music radio programme 89 years ago.
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A charity house project involving Otago Polytechnic carpentry students will soon be "copied" by charity organisers elsewhere in the world, Brian Gallagher, the world president of an international charity, United Way, predicted this week.
A radio transmitter used by University of Otago physics professor Robert Jack to make his pioneering radio broadcast of voice and music 89 years ago is being auctioned later this month and could leave Dunedin.
Forced redundancies from a proposed restructuring of the University of Otago social work department should come only as a last resort, department staff are urging.
A private member's Bill which aims to ensure nobody is compelled to join a tertiary students' association would badly damage the interests of Dunedin tertiary students, student leaders said yesterday.
A university of Otago study which could develop new therapies against Alzheimer's disease is among a series of research projects boosted by $33.35 million in grants in the latest Health Research Council funding round.
If there was a special prize for 30 years of literary stubbornness, Dr August Obermayer, an Honorary Fellow in the University of Otago German programme, would have an excellent chance of winning it.
Proposed restructuring and likely staff cuts at the University of Otago social work department risk doing "some real damage" to Otago's social work teaching programmes, Massey University Associate Prof Mike O'Brien warned yesterday.
The University of Otago is likely to cut student numbers at its popular summer school next year and tighten some other university entry requirements, given pressures from a rising student roll and limited funding.