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13 Mar 2025
Otago success in QS World Rankings
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is home to New Zealand’s highest ranked subject area in the latest QS Wor...
29 Dec 2024
Seafarers navigate way to home of sevens
Visiting the iconic Sigatoka Sand Dunes where the Fijian rugby sevens players train was just one of the highlights of ta...
05 Nov 2024
New York neuroscientist to share research as guest lecturer
Behavioural scientist Professor Dayu Lin, of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, is this year’s Univers...
02 Oct 2024
Walking path to heart health equity with community
A University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researcher feels privileged knowing her work is treasured by the community...
26 Aug 2024
'The Career Break Paradox' wins Otago's Three Minute Thesis
For some people, it may well have been the ‘worst year of their life’, but it seems they are still in favour of the conc...
22 Aug 2024
BMS postgraduate symposium an outstanding success
What better way to showcase the University’s emerging biomedical talent than to bring together a bunch of outstanding po...
11 Jul 2024
Prestigious Royal Society award to neuroprosthetics academic
An Otago researcher investigating an innovative approach to help people manage diseases associated with the nervous syst...
08 Jul 2024
Funding awarded to continue critical cancer research
Lung cancer is the greatest single cancer contributor to the life expectancy gap between Māori and non-Māori. University...
27 May 2024
HRC awards $3.7 million to Otago researchers
Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, causing global concern. University of Otago researchers have se...
30 Oct 2023
Otago researchers receive Fellowships
The impact of housing on mental health and how hormones regulate parents’ behaviour after their offspring are born are j...
27 Oct 2023
Fellowships awarded to five Otago researchers
Five University of Otago researchers are being celebrated with Royal Society Te Apārangi Fellowships to undertake a rang...
08 Aug 2023
Laboratory research finds gluten caused brain inflammation
In what is believed to be a world first discovery, University of Otago researchers have found wheat gluten causes brain...