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Latest news
28 Mar 2025
‘Caring, passionate and dedicated’ teachers awarded
Five of Otago’s academic staff have received Excellence in Teaching awards for being ‘caring, passionate and dedicated t...
10 Mar 2025
Otago student wins Young Econometrician Award
When PhD candidate Syed Zulqernain Hussain received a Young Econometrician Award at last month’s 34th meeting of the Aus...
19 Dec 2024
Otago trio crack business cases in Budapest
Three Otago tauira were given the opportunity to pit their case-cracking skills against business school students from ac...
31 Oct 2024
Hippie economist cruising into early retirement
When a former Otago lecturer recently popped by campus after many years abroad, she was so cheered by the familiar visio...
22 Oct 2024
Budding economist wins 2024 Sir Frank Holmes Prize
When you hear Amelia Farrar describe economics as being “like the physics of society”, you get some sense of the keen mi...
23 Sep 2024
Otago student set to shine at Oxford
You’d be hard-pressed to find a teenage mind as sharp, questing and kind as the one that sits sparkling away inside Alex...
22 Aug 2024
Rowing for good
While most of his Otago peers were doing nothing more challenging over winter than surviving on two-minute noodles, Jack...
29 Jul 2024
Embracing AI benefits highly skilled workers
Highly skilled workers would be wise to master artificial intelligence (AI) tools now to gain a competitive edge in the...
17 Jul 2024
World Bridge Games champ?
Come October, Department of Economics Associate Professor Murat Genç, will park his usual deep thinking around microecon...
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 very worthy cause.
08 Nov 2023
Rhodes Scholarship for excellence, leadership and commitment to community
Huge congratulations to Otago graduate Isaac Heron who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University...
02 Nov 2023
Instant rebates increase charity donations
New University of Otago research shows people will donate more money to charity if they receive a rebate immediately, wh...