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10 Jun 2026
Global award for PhD student’s endometrial cancer research
PhD student Tiffany Ilott has been awarded a prestigious US$10,000 Zonta Women in STEM Award for her research into endom...
24 Nov 2025
Appreciation in the air at DIS awards ceremony
Fifteen Otago kaimahi and tauira who “go the extra mile” to make students feel supported and valued were celebrated at t...
29 Sep 2025
Christchurch Heart Institute researchers shine in Heart Foundation Grants
“Game-changing” University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research projects focussed on novel scanning, tests and bioma...
25 Aug 2025
Working for the ‘ministry of presence’
As the chaplain of Otakou Whakaihu Waka’s Otautahi campus, Sheila Mark is very certain she has “the best job”.
21 Aug 2025
Improved sexual and reproductive healthcare needed for wāhine Māori - research
New research from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has highlighted gaps in the quality of sexual and reproductive...
08 May 2025
Global study charts growing health burden of IBD
A groundbreaking international study, with involvement from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has identified four d...
17 Mar 2025
Meet the Cooks - aka the physics family
If the Cook siblings miss their daily catch up over dinner at the family’s home, they may be able to share morning tea a...
03 Feb 2025
Revealing underwater secrets with new technique
Scientists from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka are hoping their new research technique will help unlock...
04 Nov 2024
Scholarship provides 'amazing' opportunities
This year’s MacGibbon Fellows may have different research topics, but their experiences of the US travel scholarship can...
01 Nov 2024
Supervisor of the Year 2024
Dr Jeff Foote, of the Department of Management, has won the Otago University Students’ Association Overall Supervisor of...
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...
18 Aug 2024
Finding your own way key to PhD success
Otago PhD graduand Rosee Hodgson knows a fair bit about juggling commitments.