Tuesday 17 December 2019 9:35am
2019 in pictures ... some of the photos featured on the Otago Bulletin Board this year.
2019 has been another incredible year here at the University of Otago – reflected by the wide range of stories that have made headlines on the Otago Bulletin Board.
The most popular story of the year was our coverage of the University’s Blues and Golds Awards in October. This was followed by the story of Ashleigh Shipton, who won the Prince of Wales Prize - the University’s premier undergraduate award which recognises both academic ability and extra-curricular interests. And in third and fourth place were our stories on last year’s and this year’s Professional Staff Awards.
The year has seen our University celebrate its 150th anniversary, and it has been our honour and privilege to bring you the stories of many events. We wrote about the Clocktower Picnic in February, the Queen’s Birthday celebrations, and many events before, after and in between such as the arrival of anniversary roses, the return of the University Bell and the beginning of a new tradition of PhD candidates ringing the bell when they submit their thesis. We covered the launch of Ali Clarke’s book Otago: 150 Years of New Zealand’s First University, the opening of an exhibition of 150 staff in the Link in November, a cushion concert on the banks of the Leith, the Light for Peace ceremony and the Gold Ball.
While the anniversary celebrations meant the University of Otago’s year was filled with great joy, it was also filled with deep grief. There were the 15 March Mosque shootings in Christchurch and the death of student Sophia Crestani at a student flat in October. We covered the University’s response to both events. A silent march was held after the shootings, and a North Dunedin Street Clean up was held in Sophia’s honour.
As always, the range of stories was vast, from the launch of a new Otago save cup which features 100-year-old lecture theatre desk grafitti, to the publication of archeological findings telling more of early Dunedin, the burying of a time capsule under St David II, and the posthumous graduation of the late Mike Wright. Staff and students joined the March for Climate Change, the University opened its new dental building, and Professor Neil Gemmell told the world the Loch Ness Monster might just be a very large eel..
There were so many stories, but below are the top 10 most popular as shown by our analytics.
