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![Paul Pearce](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0032/580469/Paul-Pearce-thumbnail-650.png)
11 Jul 2024
Honouring a lifelong dedication to learning and teaching
If there’s one thing that Paul Pearce believes, it’s that teaching others to imp...
![Sam Carrington](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0029/575282/Sam-Carrington-thumbnail-650.png)
14 Jun 2024
Passion for Māori public health leads to fellowship
Growing up, Samuel Carrington was always baffled why dental care cost so much on...
![Adith Venugopal](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0030/574455/Adith-Venugopal-thumbnail-650.png)
07 Jun 2024
Orthodontics award celebrates life changing experience
After a lifetime of bullying, one Cambodian woman’s quality of life has been cha...
![Three headshots of female researchers](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0033/573189/Research-thumbnail.png)
27 May 2024
HRC awards $3.7 million to Otago researchers
Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, causing global concern....
![Otago students who ran the Southern Lakes Half Marathon in Wanaka this month as part of their Running for Alice campaign to raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation.](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0025/570922/Running-for-Alice-thumbnail-650.png)
14 May 2024
Marathon effort for cause close to heart
Five third-year Otago students went the distance this month in the name of a ver...
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27 Mar 2024
Teaching Excellence Awards 2024
Five wāhine have scooped the titles in this year’s University of Otago Excellenc...
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14 Mar 2024
Otago wins international dentistry award third year in a row
University of Otago’s Faculty of Dentistry has won a prestigious international a...
![Skulls of 29 million year old primates used in this study. Aegyptopithecus on left, Parapithecus on right. Photo credit – Matt Borths.](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0025/552472/Skulls-of-29-million-year-old-primates-thumbnail.jpg)
18 Dec 2023
Study provides insights into diets of early primates
Turns out our love of sweet food goes back – way back – to our early primate anc...
![A dentist's office, with a patient's chair and other dentistry equipment](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0029/551657/Dentists-chair-and-equipment-image-650.jpg)
14 Dec 2023
Dentists’ perspectives on dental tourism
New Zealanders are being urged to do their homework before travelling overseas f...
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12 Dec 2023
Otago announces 29 new professors
Twenty-nine University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...
![Kirsty Barltrop thumbnail](https://www.otago.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0023/516542/Kirsty-Barltrop-thumbnail.png)
30 Nov 2023
Otago Professional Practice Fellow wins Dental Hygienist of the Year
Kirsty Barltrop, a Professional Practice Fellow in the Bachelor of Oral Heath at...
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11 Oct 2023
MoH OHRF and NZDRF Grant Awards 2023
The New Zealand Dental Association and Manatū Hauora Ministry of Health (MoH) ar...