John Gibb

Once upon a time, professional storyteller Michael Joyce began sharing the magic of words with school pupils.

Dunedin symposium devoted to Charles Darwin has played a key part in an original photograph of the celebrated biologist making its way to the University of Otago library.

University of Otago marketing honours student Lucy Acland has been awarded the 2010 Nestle scholarship.

Like manned flights to the moon, the huge trips once made by canoe across the Pacific are among the greatest voyages ever made, leading archaeologist Prof Peter Rowley-Conwy says.

Dunedin proved a popular venue this week for a transtasman conference involving 200 epidemiologists from New Zealand and Australia.

New Zealand should set a good example in its response to global climate change, a leading climate scientist says.

Dunedin-based Pacific Edge Biotechnology Ltd has "exciting" prospects, with the rapidly approaching commercialisation of its bladder cancer diagnostic test, chief executive Dr David Darling said at the company's annual meeting.

Four leading academics at the University of Otago have received Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research from the university.

A university of Otago science graduate who walked more than 1000km along riverbeds from Fiordland to Bay of Plenty has boosted the chances of conservation workers pulling back the endangered native blue duck from the brink of extinction.

Organisers of a planned 150th anniversary celebration of the Dunedin fire brigades are seeking memorabilia of brigade activities.

Dunedin city councillor Fliss Butcher is keen to see Dunedin realise its potential as a leading centre for golf tourism.

Dr Donald Markwell, the warden of Rhodes House, at Oxford University, is urging University of Otago graduates not to become too narrowly specialised or cut off from "new knowledge and insight".

When University of Otago medical graduate Dr Richard Wigley first decided to tackle rheumatology research about 40 years ago, it was partly because it was a neglected area of study.

And then there was one. Nicholas Graves (18), a second-year commerce student, has withdrawn from the Otago University Students Association presidential race, leaving only one remaining candidate, Harriet Geoghegan.