University graduates should avoid becoming "intellectual robots" who wander through life chanting phrases picked up from books and lecture rooms, Sir Tipene O'Regan warned yesterday.
Life has taken a new turn for former courier van driver Charlotte Payne, who plans to become a primary school teacher after graduating from the University of Otago's Southland campus with a degree in education today.
University of Otago bioethicist Prof Donald Evans has been selected to head one of the world's most prestigious bioethics organisations.
Concerns are growing that several recent and proposed ACC policy changes could damage the health and quality of life of older New Zealanders.
For one Dunedin father and daughter today is extra special.
nexpectedly strong relationships have arisen from a series of fact-finding visits to Dunedin by Community Correction Service officials from Chinese sister city Shanghai, University of Otago Associate Prof Donna Buckingham says.
A leading international scholar of medical law and ethics, Associate Prof Colin Gavaghan, has been appointed to head the newly established Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies at the University of Otago.
New Zealand's Accident Compensation scheme is a "national treasure which needs to be preserved", Dunedin lawyer Peter Sara said yesterday.
Long-delayed plans to make greater use of the scenic and recreational potential of Cargill's Castle have been revived after the Dunedin City Council bought land to provide eventual public access.
University of Otago researchers are aiming to help develop a portable breath-test device which could cut the usual tuberculosis diagnosis time from weeks to minutes.
The Government is making "a huge fundamental mistake" in its handling of motorcyclist protests over proposed ACC levy hikes, Labour deputy leader Annette King says.
University of Otago medical graduate Dr Andrew Greensmith, now a Melbourne-based plastic surgeon and consultant at the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital, played a leading role as part of the surgical team that recently separated the conjoined Bangladeshi twins, Krishna and Trishna. Reporter John Gibb talked to him about the challenges of the landmark operation, which was the culmination of two years of painstaking medical preparation.
Dinosaur exhibition plans are being hatched at a museum near you.
Proposals to introduce voluntary membership of student associations could badly damage the quality of student life at the University of Otago and harm Dunedin's economy, the Australian student president, David Barrow, says.
The Dunedin Gasworks Museum is beginning to come of age and will prove itself a "terrific" community asset, its London-based patron, Sir Neil Cossons, says.
University of Otago medical graduate and film-maker Dr Paul Trotman is "absolutely ecstatic" after receiving scores of positive emails and texts responding to his film on the university's body bequest programme.
Some of the glories of Dunedin's engineering heritage will be highlighted at a transtasman conference being hosted in the city this weekend.
University of Otago students Tom Hills and Alice Irving have won Rhodes Scholarships to study at Oxford University next year.
University of Otago physiologist Prof Allan Herbison has been awarded the Health Research Council's Liley Medal for "outstanding" research which could lead to new treatments for infertility.
Despite the economic downturn, organisers are still expecting more than 100 stallholders and several thousand members of the public to take part in next year's Go Otago family fun day.