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Te Pānui Tāura - Issue 3, May 2025


From Allen Hall dramatics to the West End stage, whānau at the forefront for researchers, community and connection offered during Ramadan, plus more!

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Two women each holding a copy of the compendium

22 May 2025

KUMA internship provides lasting legacy


Sabian Clarke has had the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy of stories, achievements, and taonga during her internsh...

Representing Otago at the Jessup international moot court in Washington DC are researcher Annabel Rhodes and oralists Samuel Blackwood and Oliver Thorns.

20 May 2025

Making their case at international moot comp


The Union of Ambrosia and the Republic of Rovinia have beef, and the world’s finest young legal minds have been called o...

OUSA Residential Representative Callum Hadlow, left, and President Liam White are joining other agencies in a door-knocking campaign in North Dunedin this week to talk to tenants about Healthy Homes compliance.

20 May 2025

Knock knock…Is your home healthy?


If you hear a knock on your flat door this week, it might just be a member of the OUSA exec keen to have a chat about yo...

A woman partially submerged in water

20 May 2025

‘Surreal’ funding boost for marine biodiversity project


A new University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka project which aims to help restore marine biodiversity in the Ngāi Tahu...

Andrus Nomm in Pärnu, the Estonian city where he began his studies in tourism.

17 May 2025

Decarbonised footprints and displaced ears


The first thing to know about tourism PhD graduate Andrus Nomm is that he isn’t the man from Kim Dotcom’s inner circle w...

Pacific PhDs, Library and Pacific Islands Centre team

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’.

A woman standing in front of shelves of books

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...

International student Govinda Neroula from Nepal is graduating with a PhD in Earthquake Science. The photo was taken in the South Island’s Southern Alps during a field trip to the Arthurs Pass region.

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...

Joseph Balfe, who has been awarded a scholarship to study neuroscience at the University of Oxford, stands in the grounds of the University of Otago.

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...

An exciting morning for Iunisi Finau as she is pictured in front of the University clock tower on graduation day.

12 May 2025

Family inspiration for Masters graduate


Iunisi Finau credits constant family support as the driving force which saw her graduate with a Masters of Indigenous St...

Dr Solomon Gurmu Beka graduates today as Otago’s first Ethiopian Doctor of Aviation Medicine.

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...

Sakiusa Baleivanualala working in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

09 May 2025

Graduand fighting superbugs in the Pacific


Saki Baleivanualala didn’t just come to the University of Otago to study, he came here to learn, grow and give back.

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