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10 Jun 2025

No one-size-fits-all for migraine treatments - survey

About half of people with migraine disease turn to non-medication treatments in an attempt to ease their symptoms, new O...

A 2009 excavation involving researchers from the University of Otago, at the SAC locality on Watom Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit: Dr Rebecca Kinaston

05 Jun 2025

Otago researchers help unlock ancient migration secrets

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have helped bring clarity to the great migration of early Pacific...

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...

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...

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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08 May 2025

Global study charts growing health burden of IBD

A groundbreaking international study, with involvement from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has identified four d...

11 Apr 2025

UOC student wins prestigious American Chemical Society Award

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Max Yavitt, from the University of Otago, Christchurch’s, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and M...

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09 Apr 2025

Whānau at the forefront for researchers

Whānau is at the heart of cancer research projects set to be undertaken by three Otago scholarship recipients.

29 Mar 2025

Study will improve predictions of ice sheet movement

A University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study is developing innovative methods to accurately predict how ice sh...

Dr Aline Boer, who will be traveling to Germany to research one of the hormones influencing obesity.

26 Mar 2025

New Zealand-Germany collaboration will boost studies into obesity

Dr Aline Boer is one of several early career New Zealand researchers about to head to Germany to work on a collaborative...

20 Mar 2025

Aotearoa once home to elephant seals

Southern elephant seals are the “canary in the coal mine” for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosyste...

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27 Feb 2025

Speaking at World Endometriosis Congress

An Otago PhD candidate has made it through a ‘highly competitive selection process’ to present at an international congr...

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