![Writer 2024](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0025/581146/Writer-2024-thumbnail-650.png)
17 Jul 2024
Creative writing competition opens
The University’s annual creative writing competition opens for entries today, wi...
![Professor Philip Nel](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0027/581319/Philip-Nel-thumbnail.png)
17 Jul 2024
Illustrious career recognised with emeritus status
Philip Nel will be an Emeritus Professor when he retires from Otago’s Politics p...
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17 Jul 2024
World Bridge Games champ?
Come October, Department of Economics Associate Professor Murat Genç, will park...
![A woman wears an eye-mask and sleeps](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0027/580815/Sleeping-image-650.png)
17 Jul 2024
Evening activity for better sleep – Otago study
Rigorous exercise before bed has long been discouraged, but University of Otago...
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17 Jul 2024
Law student wins big with Stellar Personality
Otago tauira Stephen Jannink might have his feet on the ground, but his head is...
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17 Jul 2024
Heavier people not getting enough vitamin C – study
A new international study involving the University of Otago, Christchurch, has f...
![Man vaping thumbnail](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0033/580929/man-vaping-thumbnail.png)
16 Jul 2024
Strong emotions, intense cravings and daily disruption: young people’s experiences of vaping
Young people in Aotearoa New Zealand are struggling with the effects of vaping a...
![Sub-wardens Ben Sidon, Jonty Robertson and Grace Manihera on campus.](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0025/581092/Sub-wardens-thumbnail.png)
16 Jul 2024
Flamingos, formals and friendship - all in a day's work
For Jonty Robertson, donning a cowboy hat and inflatable flamingo is pretty much...
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15 Jul 2024
Research to make lithium safer for BD patients
A University of Otago academic is working to ‘cage’ lithium to make it a safer a...
![A river between two banks](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0029/580808/golden-clam-story-thumbnail.png)
15 Jul 2024
New study models NZ habitats most vulnerable to gold clam invasion
A new study has modelled which habitats in Aotearoa New Zealand might be most vu...
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12 Jul 2024
Otago University supports academic’s critic and conscience role
The University of Otago welcomes the Chief Ombudsman’s ruling calling for Associ...
![Yusuf Cakmak](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0028/580465/Yusuf-Cakmak-thumbnail-650.png)
11 Jul 2024
Prestigious Royal Society award to neuroprosthetics academic
An Otago researcher investigating an innovative approach to help people manage d...