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25 Oct 2023

Strong public support for alcohol policy action


There is considerable support from New Zealanders for government to take policy...

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25 Oct 2023

Dame Carolyn Burns Fellowship a chance to give back


It’s more than 20 years since Professor Ross Thompson graduated from Otago, but...

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20 Oct 2023

Physicists create new antenna


Otago physicists have used a small glass bulb containing an atomic vapor to demo...

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20 Oct 2023

WWI study reveals true toll on Kiwi soldiers’ health


New Zealand soldiers serving in the First World War endured much higher rates of...

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30 Aug 2023

CMRF Project Grant success for four University of Otago, Christchurch researchers


A simple blood test to replace the need for colonoscopies in children with infla...

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29 Aug 2023

Saving species from extinction


High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population, funded through a...

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25 Aug 2023

Ketamine may help treat depression but use should not become widespread – editorial


Ketamine can be used to manage treatment-resistant depression but researchers wa...

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22 Aug 2023

Mummification practice of ancient populations latest focus of Otago bioarchaeologist


Professor Siân Halcrow’s work has taken her to some of the most significant arch...

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17 Aug 2023

Otago’s first community-based PhD oral defences graduate


Having supported each other through their studies, Terina Raureti (Ngāti Raukawa...

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15 Aug 2023

Kaupapa Māori Professor Anne-Marie Jackson delivers IPL on Marae


Whanaungatanga was strong and present at Arai Te Uru Marae in Ōtepoti where Prof...

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10 Aug 2023

Understanding environment use key to protection of hoiho


Researchers hope a study into how hoiho foraging grounds overlap with commercial...

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09 Aug 2023

Call for more cataract surgeries in New Zealand after link to dementia


University of Otago experts are calling for additional and more timely cataract...

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