27 Feb 2026
Vietnamese brothers declare Otago ‘sweet as’
When twin brothers Trung and Thanh Nguyễn return home to Hanoi in Vietnam this month, they’ll have more than their newly...
01 Sep 2025
Electric vehicles will increase winter electricity peaks – study
New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows electric vehicle owners will need to charge their cars mor...
26 Aug 2025
PhD project uncovers new viruses in New Zealand
Precious little is known about viruses specific to New Zealand, but the work of one of Otago’s new graduates is making i...
21 Aug 2025
Study maps New Zealand’s residential carbon emissions
Taranaki and the upper West Coast have the most potential to reduce heat-related carbon emissions and reliance on natura...
19 Feb 2025
Repeated invasions shape NZ’s bird life
New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species...
14 Feb 2025
Getting educational frog resource off the ground
A year's work came to fruition for two Otago Master of Science students when a new bilingual resource they spearheaded w...
30 Jan 2025
Otago scientists discover Antarctic fast ice secrets
University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the...
13 Dec 2024
Otago genuinely sussing sustainability
Otago’s sustainablity position has improved despite significantly more universities competing internationally for recogn...
16 Oct 2024
50th Science Wānanga for Māori Sciences
Nurturing the scientific and curious minds of rangatahi Māori across the motu has been at the heart of Science Wānanga s...
07 Oct 2024
Turning food waste into black gold
A digester turned 2.33 tonnes of food waste from college kitchens and serveries into soil conditioner for University gro...
26 Sep 2024
Unexpected early kūmara cultivation discovered in Otago study
New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research has uncovered the unlikely location of one of the earliest secur...
17 Sep 2024
From rain gauge to international career in climate science
When Dr Jim Salinger was enrolling for study at the University of Otago in the 1960s, he was torn between medicine and c...