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18 Dec 2023

Fighting antibiotic resistance


Howard Maxwell has travelled a long way since growing up in Ōpōtiki, a small tow...

Skulls of 29 million year old primates used in this study. Aegyptopithecus on left, Parapithecus on right. Photo credit – Matt Borths.

18 Dec 2023

Study provides insights into diets of early primates


Turns out our love of sweet food goes back – way back – to our early primate anc...

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15 Dec 2023

Doctors most trusted for COVID-19 advice


When it comes to advice about COVID-19, New Zealanders trust their doctors and h...

Dr Catriona Murray

15 Dec 2023

COVID-19 contact tracing lessons could be applied to STIs, researcher says


A centralised contact tracing system for sexually transmitted infections, suitab...

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14 Dec 2023

Otago researcher Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year semi-finalist


No-one was more surprised than Associate Professor Logan Walker when an email ar...

12 Dec 2023

Edible Insects researcher graduates with PhD


It’s been a hectic four years for PhD graduate Ruchita Rao Kavle that’s involved...

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12 Dec 2023

Otago announces 29 new professors


Twenty-nine University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...

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11 Dec 2023

Sister an inspiration for newly-graduated doctor


When Dr Lizzie Stevenson was thinking about becoming a doctor, she didn’t have t...

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10 Dec 2023

Tough, but worth it


If graduate Emily Fruean could go back in time to 2019 she would tell her17-year...

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10 Dec 2023

Grateful for fond memories, lasting relationships


It may not have been completely smoothly sailing for Obreniokibo Ibifubara Amies...

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08 Dec 2023

Aotearoa’s first-ever Pharmaceutical Science graduates


The University of Otago’s first-ever Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science cohort w...

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05 Dec 2023

Professor awarded Emeritus title after lifetime fighting pathogens


Professor Iain Lamont is more than deserving of the Emeritus title. The world-le...

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