Tuesday 19 October 2021
A life of music, service, hard work and family will be honoured at a special concert being held at Marama Hall on 1 December to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of renowned New Zealand composer and Otago alumnus Emeritus Professor John Ritchie.
Thursday 7 October 2021
Property Services are using innovative technology solutions to improve energy use in some of the University’s key buildings. The need to make the most of our current building stock, while reducing our energy use, gave Otago alumna Kelly Li a chance to join the staff of her former university.
Monday 27 September 2021
Recent Otago Theology and Linguistics graduate Nicholas (Nick) List has been awarded a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake his PhD in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Distinguished scholar and lifetime adventurer, Classics alumna Elizabeth Carvalho has left a generous Bequest to the Classics programme, to encourage and inspire students in their studies.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Alumni in the news: Anna Campbell wins Young Enterprise Contributor of the Year award; Mary Devine takes over as CEO of Foodstuffs; Retiring GP Dr John Almond talks about 40 years in general practice in Te Puke; and Katrina Darry has been the All Blacks’ nutritionist since 2008.
Thursday 23 September 2021
@Otago 28 - The legacy of Otago alumnus Dr Edward Grant, who worked tirelessly for the communities of the North Island’s East Coast, lives on in a generation of young doctors in training.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Iconic music group SIX60 have bought their old flat in Castle Street and partnered with the University, signing an agreement at the end of July at Te Korokoro o te Tūī, Otago's new Performing Arts centre, under which both SIX60 and the University will provide two $10,000-a-year scholarships each, for a total of four aspiring Performing Arts students to live at the flat.
Thursday 23 September 2021
The University of Otago’s staff and students continue to serve on the front lines of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response.
Thursday 23 September 2021
University of Otago PhD candidate and two Otago alumni have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships, including two annual Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga awards.
Thursday 23 September 2021
We catch up with talented young pianist Sara Lee who has just won a major international music competition. Sara, who was born in Korea, studied in Moscow and graduated from Otago last year with a Bachelor of Music endorsed in Performance.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Galleries from recent alumni events including an event at the Grand Hall in Parliament with Hon Grant Robertson, an event in Greymouth with Robert Burns Fellow, Becky Manawatu, and events in Christchurch and Auckland.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Helping KiwiRail work towards its sustainability goals is the key focus of recent Otago Energy Management graduate Malia Vehikite.
Thursday 23 September 2021
Otago Images - From bud to bloom – photos of our much-loved magnolia tree in the Quad, as it emerges from winter greenery into promising buds, and finally full-blown flowers!
Friday 17 September 2021
The latest Master of Entrepreneurship (MEntr) class recently handed in their final project to complete their programme studies. MEntr Course Director Associate Professor Conor O’Kane says he’s thrilled with the highly innovative projects that the students have completed.
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Dr Abigail Bland can be found in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, looking at how the diabetes drug metformin can be repurposed for a subtype of lung cancer.
Tuesday 14 September 2021
Helping KiwiRail work towards its sustainability goals is the key focus of recent Otago graduate Malia Vehikite. Born in Christchurch to Tongan parents, Malia looked to follow her father’s footsteps into a career in engineering. However, after a year at the University of Canterbury she decided that her interests lay elsewhere.
Wednesday 8 September 2021
Advice at a high school international business competition helped Young Enterprise Contributor of the Year winner Anna Campbell towards a career in business. The award recognises the significant contribution Anna has given to business leadership over the last decade.
Monday 6 September 2021
The University of Otago’s staff and students continue to serve on the front lines of New Zealand’s COVID-19 response.
Monday 30 August 2021
We would like to invite you as a member of the University of Otago alumni community to connect with us an share your experience of the world via the medium of photography in our inaugural photography competition.
Friday 27 August 2021
Otago's newest graduates and youngest alumni relived some of their University memories at the recent young alumni event in Auckland on July 13th.
Tuesday 17 August 2021
Otago alumnus Eroni Leilua has just returned from the Olympic Games where he became the first Samoan to represent his country at Olympic level in the Laser sailing event.
Monday 16 August 2021
Alumni and friends of the University of Otago gathered in Greymouth on 29 July to reminisce of times at Otago, connect with other alumni, and to hear from current Burns Fellow and award-winning author of "Auē" Becky Manawatu
Thursday 12 August 2021
The University of Otago's Christchurch 2021 alumni event was held at the University's Christchurch campus on Wednesday 28 July and was the first event of the 2021 Winter Symposium Series.
Tuesday 10 August 2021
An interview with Shelagh Murray, Director, Development and Alumni Relations Office at the University of Otago about her role at the university and the goals and visions for future development.
Tuesday 3 August 2021
Speaker and host, Deputy Prime Minister and alumnus the Hon. Grant Robertson entertained guests with memories of his time as a student and thoughts about how the University had progressed.
Monday 2 August 2021
COVID-19 documentary 'Behind the Mask', made by Otago alumni Dr Paul Trotman and Clive Copeman, tells the story of the pandemic through first-hand accounts of frontline medical workers around the world. The result is a devastating portrait of the physical and emotional toll of the outbreak.
Thursday 29 July 2021
Iconic music group SIX60 have bought their old flat and teamed up with the University, signing an agreement today at Te Korokoro o te Tūī, Otago's new Performing Arts centre.
Thursday 22 July 2021
Working at the coalface of Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 response, every day brings new challenges for Otago alumna Tara Swadi.
Wednesday 21 July 2021
A rise in donations has led to an increase in scholarships from a group of generous Otago Medical School graduates.
Monday 12 July 2021
Dr Jenny Visser has led the postgraduate interdisciplinary travel medicine programme from the Wellington campus since 1999.
Wednesday 7 July 2021
Since graduating with an LLB and BA from Otago in 2010, Grace Kreft has been on a mission. Her desire to follow her instincts and forge a career from the things she loves most has seen her make the leap from law to baking, to business, and now into marketing - with a dusting of bringing people together on the side.
Tuesday 6 July 2021
University of Otago PhD candidate and two Otago alumni have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships, including two annual Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga awards.
Monday 21 June 2021
The University of Otago again provided a focal point for discussion on the close bonds between Aotearoa New Zealand, Scotland and Ireland during a recent visit by Faran Foley, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Ireland to New Zealand and Samoa.
Friday 18 June 2021
Otago alumna Madeleine Brennan's documentary 'Growing Up Kiwi' is a finalist in the 2021 International Wildlife Film Festival, and an Official Selection of the 2021 Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Galleries from a selection of alumni events that have taken place during 2021.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Alumni in the news - an overview of some of the amazing things that University of Otago alumni are doing right now.
Thursday 17 June 2021
As the shortest day of the year approaches we take a look back at last winter's brief, but beautiful, dusting of snow that covered the campus and much of Dunedin.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Tom Devine and Georgia Bellett are heading to the USA on prestigious scholarships. Tom has received the William Georgetti Scholarship and is going to Columbia University and Georgia has been awarded the NZ Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship and will attend University of California at Berkeley.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Their careers might be going in different directions, but Emily and Sophie Martin - aka Instagram influencers the Tasty Twins - are still producing delicious recipes and promoting ways for their followers to achieve a healthy life balance.
Thursday 17 June 2021
The nights are long this time of year, and what better way to spend the evening than with a good book? To help get us through the winter, we approached renowned author Dame Fiona Kidman DNZM OBE for a few "good reads" recommendations.
