2 April 2020
Online teaching began 30 March, with Otago staff having rapidly transformed face-to-face classes into distance learning.
Friday, 3 April 2020
Campus Watch is an integral service at the University of Otago. Its primary role is assisting students to adjust to their lives away from home, and the team provide safety advice, guidance and security to minimise risks to students while ensuring their behaviour does not negatively impact on the wider community and University.
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Otago students Sophie and Emily Martin share some of their tips to dealing with lockdown.
Monday, 9 March 2020
This year, five of the University’s 15 Residential Colleges have new leadership. In part one of this series, the Otago Bulletin Board speaks to the new Heads of College of Abbey, Carrington and Cumberland Colleges.
Monday, 9 March 2020
Every year the University of Otago awards Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships to students who have excelled and shown promise both inside and out of their secondary schools.
Monday, 9 March 2020
Every year the University of Otago awards Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships to students who have excelled and shown promise both inside and out of their secondary schools.
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) 2020 President is local boy aiming to encourage students to utilise the Association’s resources.
Monday, 24 February 2020
Kia mau, kia ū, kia ita! Hold firm, be committed and steadfast! A kick-start programme that aims to prepare Māori students for study at Otago launched this year and whakawhanaungatanga, the process of establishing relationships, has played a key role in its success.
Friday, 31 January 2020
Music classical voice student Lillian Gibbs is the youngest person ever to become a member of the Voices NZ choir.
Thursday, 19 December 2019
A feature of law graduand Norhan El Sanjak’s time at Otago was continuing volunteer work in the community, which was both professionally and personally rewarding, and pushed her “out of [her] comfort zone.”
Monday, 16 December 2019
Growing up, Ivana Pereira thought she needed to become a doctor or a lawyer to help her people, but studying at Otago opened her eyes to the wide array of careers public health can offer.
Friday, 6 December 2019
When Oripa Waqa returns to Fiji after graduation she will be the first female oral surgeon specialist in not only Fiji but in the wider Pacific Islands.
Friday, 6 December 2019
The Otago University Rowing Club (OURC) celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. We spoke to two members about what makes the Club so special.
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
All year we have been celebrating the University’s 150th birthday, holding number of celebrations to mark this auspicious milestone.
Thursday, 21 November 2019
An Otago undergraduate student has received a prestigious scholarship to continue the work of researchers from the Psychology Department.
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Faculty of Law students Hansaka Ranaweera and Clara Sinclair took the top two places in this year's EC Adams Memorial Prize in Land Law
The hospital-level patient-treatment building for New Zealand’s only national centre for dentistry is right here in Dunedin.
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