
16 May 2025
UOC Medical student ‘Superheroes’ bring joy to sick children
A group of 6th year medical students dressed up in superhero gear last month to spark smiles from sick children in Ōtaut...

16 May 2025
No challenge too big for entrepreneurship graduate
Flynn Mitchell came to university with a point to prove.

16 May 2025
Library shows commitment to Pacific legacy through Koloa mei Moana
The Library is pulling out all the stops with its bold visions for a new initiative, ‘Koloa mei Moana’.

16 May 2025
A digital poetic regeneration of archival multilingual Rotuman texts
PhD candidate Mere Taito is believed to be the first person to hand in a thesis written on early 20th century multilingu...

15 May 2025
Wānanga weaves Library whānau together
In April, staff from Te Pātaka Mātauraka, the University of Otago Library, travelled to Puketeraki Marae for a wānanga.

15 May 2025
From Nepal to New Zealand: a journey bound by tectonic forces
Govinda Niroula grew up in Nepal alongside the Himalayan Frontal Thrust, a major geological fault line spanning 2,500 ki...

14 May 2025
A passion for problem solving
Emma Lewisham feels her science-led natural skincare company is just getting started. Since forming in 2019, her eponymo...

14 May 2025
New BMS Dean blown away by research offerings
Newly appointed Dean of the Otago School of Biomedical Sciences Professor Julia Horsfield is keen to make sure more stud...

13 May 2025
Hands-On at Otago brings big benefits
Recent feedback shows Otago’s annual, week-long immersive programme for senior secondary students does have a big impact...

13 May 2025
Prestigious Oxford scholarship for Otago neuroscience graduate
Joseph Balfe has been awarded the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to undertake his PhD in Psychiatry at the University...

13 May 2025
Otago commits to supporting academics displaced by conflict
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has taken concrete steps towards supporting academics displaced by confli...

10 May 2025
Otago’s first Ethiopian Aviation Medicine PhD takes flight
After facing the realities of war and then being separated from his wife and young children, Dr Solomon Gurmu Beka gradu...