Panic stations or business as usual?

Posted 10:56pm Monday 11th October 2010

The burning question of the moment is how, and in what form, OUSA and the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association (OPSA) will be able to survive once VSM is in place. Research shows that voluntary students’ associations will likely struggle to gain members. A recent report commissioned Read more...

Christchurch Campus Largely Operational

Posted 2:15am Monday 11th October 2010

Students at the University of Otago's Christchurch campus returned to class fairly quickly, just over a week after the devastating earthquake on September 4th. The University's Christchurch School of Medicine building, built in 1973 and adjoined to Christchurch Hospital, sustained relatively Read more...

Otago Graduates Win Major Film Award

Posted 9:57pm Sunday 26th September 2010

University of Otago graduates Guy Ryan and Nick Holmes have won the Platinum Best Film Award at the 2010 Colorado International Film Festival. The pair produced the winning documentary Carving the Future in 2009, during the final year of their Masters in Science Communication degrees. Read more...

OUSA Women’s Week

Posted 5:49am Monday 13th September 2010

OUSA Women's Week is being held this week, and will feature a number of events which highlight issues facing women in New Zealand. The main event of the week is a seminar being held today at Commerce 2.07 from 3-6pm where Lesley Elliot, the mother of murdered University of Otago student Sophie Read more...

Weatherston appeal delayed

Posted 3:36pm Monday 16th August 2010

Clayton Weatherston's appeal against his conviction for murder has been delayed. eatherston, 34, will challenge his conviction for murdering his former girlfriend, 22-year-old Sophie Elliot, by stabbing and cutting her 216 times in her Dunedin home in January 2008. Currently serving a jail Read more...

Animal Law Week

Posted 11:31pm Monday 9th August 2010

The University of Otago's first Animal Law Week is being held this week. The events are being run by the Student Animal Legal Defence Fund (SALDF), and aim to increase all students' awareness about society's treatment of animals. A number of interactive seminars will be presented by SALDF Read more...

Swine Flu Cases

Posted 4:38am Monday 2nd August 2010

The University of Otago has reported that there have been two confirmed cases of swine flu this season. Despite this, the prevalence of influenza in Otago and Southland remains at expected seasonal levels. Otago and Southland medical officer of health Marian Poore says Public Health South are Read more...

Vitamin C Just Keeps Getting Better

Posted 11:46pm Sunday 25th July 2010

A University of Otago study published in the latest edition of the Cancer Research journal has found that Vitamin C may help fight cancer. The study showed that tumours had 40 percent less vitamin C than the surrounding normal tissue. The findings indicate that Vitamin C could limit the rate Read more...

Batton down the hatches

Posted 10:19pm Sunday 11th July 2010

The University of Otago Council will today vote on recommendations from the University Senate to restrict enrolments for the 2011 academic year. The vote is a result of an influx of domestic enrolments which has pushed the University well beyond its Government funding for Equivalent Full Time Read more...

University being anti-social.

Posted 8:20pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Proposed restructuring of the University of Otago’s Social Work and Community Development department has prompted a group of concerned students to urge caution. Plans are in the works that would see the Social Work and Community Development department merged with the departments of Sociology and Read more...