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21 Nov 2024

Otago Medical School turning 150

The past, present and future of Aotearoa New Zealand’s first medical school will...

Dr Silke Neumann (left) and Professor Julia Horsfield.

21 Nov 2024

Marsden grants another boost for Pathology Department

Receiving two significant Marsden grants this month continues a string of succes...

Angela Campbell and Alister Neill

21 Nov 2024

Prestigious accolades for staff of Wellington’s WellSleep Centre

Two academic staff from the Wellington campus’s WellSleep Centre, Professor Alis...

18 Nov 2024

Two UOC Researchers chosen for first James Smedley Fellowship

Two senior research staff at the University of Otago, Christchurch, have been se...

Associate Professor Thomas McLean is pictured with a member of the Frances Browne Literary Festival Committee, Shirley-Anne Bonner, at the Frances Browne statue in Stranorlar, Ireland.

15 Nov 2024

Irish honour for Otago academic

Nineteenth-century poet and novelist Frances Browne was widely known in the Vict...

Murdoch Otago group outside Te Rangihīroa College

15 Nov 2024

Historic Indigenous-led MOU for Murdoch and Otago Universities

Connecting as tangata whenua across New Zealand and Australia has provided the f...

Dianne Sika-Paotonu

15 Nov 2024

Royal Society awards science communication prize to Wellington researcher

Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu from the University’s Wellington campus...

Leah Smith

12 Nov 2024

Otago scientist awarded fellowship for ‘superbugs’ research

A passion for future-focused phage therapy research has resulted in Otago’s Dr L...

ASPIRE staff Professor Richard Edwards (front, left), Lani Teddy (back row, third from right) and Associate Professor Andrew Waa (front, centre) and partner Wendy Barry on his left with Indigenous and Pacific tobacco control advocates and researchers from Aotearoa, including: Te Rōpū Tupeka Kore chair Whaea Sue Taylor (centre, right), former Te Reo Marama Director Shane Bradbrook (second from right, front row), leading tobacco-resistance Australian academic Raglan Maddox (front, right),

11 Nov 2024

Plaudits for tobacco control researchers

Researchers from the Wellington campus’s ASPIRE Aotearoa centre have been recogn...

Aniruddha Chatterjee and Jim Smith

07 Nov 2024

Otago cancer researcher wins prestigious national award

A recently awarded prestigious national fellowship will help an Otago researcher...

Professor Elaine Reese and Dr Amanda Clifford (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha), of the Department of Psychology, are thrilled their project Kia Tīmata Pai (Best Start study) has received $3 million from Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund. The study aims to measure the later impact of enriched oral language – in English and te reo Māori – and self-regulation programmes in early learning settings.

07 Nov 2024

Funding for healthy start to school study

An early childhood programme designed to set children up for academic achievemen...

30 Oct 2024

Bowel cancer breakthrough

Researchers hope identification of new RNA molecules will help doctors predict i...

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