
13 Mar 2025
Otago success in QS World Rankings
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is home to New Zealand’s highest ranked subject area in the latest QS Wor...

31 Jan 2025
Poison Centre marks 60 years of service
In 1963, Dr Jack Dacre, of the University’s Chemistry Department, took a sabbatical in America where he noticed poison c...

29 Dec 2024
Seafarers navigate way to home of sevens
Visiting the iconic Sigatoka Sand Dunes where the Fijian rugby sevens players train was just one of the highlights of ta...

30 Sep 2024
Love and other drugs
When she’s not working part-time as a hospital pharmacist, part-time as an equity pharmacist, or studying for her Master...

19 Sep 2024
Otago honours exceptional researchers
The outstanding scholarly achievement and community contributions of University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research...

22 Aug 2024
BMS postgraduate symposium an outstanding success
What better way to showcase the University’s emerging biomedical talent than to bring together a bunch of outstanding po...

04 Apr 2024
Hidden worlds of Otago’s new Royal Society Fellows
University of Otago academics awarded Fellowships from the Royal Society Te Apārangi have been focusing on hidden worlds...

02 Feb 2024
The case for cannabidiol inhalers
Professor Shyamal Das has secured funding to investigate how cannabidiol can be administered via a dry powder inhaler.

16 Aug 2023
Possum contraceptive to protect the environment
PhD graduand Ravneel Chand caps off his postdoctoral studies this weekend, having achieved what he came to Ōtepoti Duned...

17 May 2023
On-campus support and prevention services combatting sexual violence
The statistics back up the critical need for the services the University’s sexual violence support and prevention centre...

16 May 2023
International student Yi Zhen Tan graduates with so much more than a Master’s
“Dare to dream, dare to commit, and dare to make it come true,” says Yi Zhen Tan, as she reflects on the recent completi...

16 Dec 2022
PhD graduate Jamie Kok on using seaweed to fight skin disease
Could seaweed be a part of the next treatment for eczema?