Briefs

Miss University

Posted 4:08am Monday 11th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

Radio station ZM is a running a Miss University contest where ladies can post a charming photo of themselves on the station’s website and be in to win $1000 and a years supply of Subway. This competition is pretty much tailor made for first year UniCol tarts, so get your iPhones out and get Read more...

Cagey Character

Posted 4:07am Monday 11th April 2011 by Staff Reporter

A man has taken to a cage by the side of the road on State Highway 1 for a month to protest against the treatment of battery caged hens. Carl Scott was spurred to protest by a draft code issued by the Government's National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. The draft code called for hens to be Read more...

Insider Trading

Posted 4:05am Monday 11th April 2011 by Teuila Fuatai

University of Otago researchers Dr David Lont and Kate McCune have received international recognition for their work investigating insider share trading in the United States. Together with Professor Paul Griffin of the University of California, the pair performed an eight-year study examining the Read more...

Top Dentistry Award for Otago Student

Posted 4:04am Monday 11th April 2011 by Andrew Oliver

Grace Lee (23), a fifth-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery student at the University of Otago, has been awarded the eminent Hatton International Dental Research Award this month in San Diego, California. Lee was chosen by the International Association for Dental Research for her investigation into Read more...

Successful Scholar

Posted 1:56am Tuesday 29th March 2011 by Andrew Oliver

First-year University of Otago student Will Coleman has been awarded the prestigious Sir Douglas Myers scholarship for 2011. The scholarship is worth $100,000 per annum and covers four years of study at Cambridge University. The former King’s College Head Boy achieved the highest mark in the Read more...

Canterbury Students Flee

Posted 4:17am Monday 28th March 2011 by Staff Reporter

The University of Canterbury has announced a new exchange opportunity which will allow 42 senior students to study for a term at the University of Oxford. There will be places for 32 honours students and 10 postgraduates students from arts, humanities, social sciences or law. The term will Read more...

Stride captures Critic’s attention. Literally.

Posted 4:29am Monday 21st March 2011 by Staff Reporter

Critic sent a news reporter to speak to OUSA Finance and Services Officer Dan Stride last Thursday in an attempt to weasel information out of him that he had been expressly forbidden from giving us. Stride, however, was playing his cards close to his chest and refused to let slip any juicy details Read more...

Date. Hole.

Posted 4:28am Monday 21st March 2011 by Aimee Gulliver

A by-election for the positions of International Students’ Representative and Postgraduate Representative is to be held to replace the originally elected reps, who have gone AWOL in recent weeks. Critic speculates that with the outstanding rate at which the Executive has already lost two Read more...

University Scientist Honoured

Posted 4:27am Monday 21st March 2011 by Staff Reporter

University of Otago Professor Jean Fleming has been honoured by the Royal Society of New Zealand, being elected a Companion of the society in recognition of the leadership she has displayed in the field of science. Prof Fleming is a Professor of Science Communication at the university's Centre for Read more...

Pastoral Support Available for Japanese Students

Posted 4:26am Monday 21st March 2011 by Andrew Oliver

Following Japan’s horrific earthquake and tsunami disasters, both Otago Polytechnic and the University of Otago are offering full pastoral support to all of their Japanese students. Supportive emails were sent to all Japanese students studying at the University of Otago as well as to Read more...