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Severe changes in world’s leaf growth patterns revealed
Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 10:39 am | University of Otago
Extensive worldwide changes in the timing of leaf activity over the past few decades—which may have significant ecological and atmospheric consequences—have been revealed by a University of Otago research team analysing satellite data from 1980 – 2012. More >>
Otago researcher wins prestigious Harkness Fellowship
Friday, 27 February 2015, 10:57 am | University of Otago
Otago researcher wins prestigious Harkness Fellowship Friday 27 February 2015 Dr Jennifer Moore from Otago’s Law Faculty, and the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, has won a prestigious Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy and Practice. More >>
Government revisit of food regulation urged
Friday, 20 February 2015, 9:59 am | University of Otago
A University of Otago economist has written in the latest issue of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet that Government policy-makers serious about curbing the obesity epidemic should take into account the evidence from behavioural sciences ... More >>
Smokefree tertiary institutions point the way
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 11:49 am | University of Otago
The progress public tertiary education institutions (TEIs) have made towards becoming completely smokefree should encourage other New Zealand workplaces and institutions to follow suit, new University of Otago research suggests. More >>
Orientation week drinking may have gateway effect
Monday, 16 February 2015, 9:37 am | University of Otago
Orientation week drinking may have gateway effect Heavy alcohol use by students during university orientation weeks may be a gateway into heavier drinking during the rest of the academic year, according to latest Otago research. The Otago Department of ... More >>
Study provides individual risk estimates for stomach cancer
Friday, 13 February 2015, 10:28 am | University of Otago
A University of Otago researcher who helped discover a key genetic mutation that causes familial stomach cancer is part of an international team that has now provided the first accurate risk estimates for those who carry it. More >>
Coral-devouring seastar thrives in warming ocean
Friday, 13 February 2015, 10:26 am | University of Otago
An Australasian research team that includes a University of Otago marine scientist has found that rising sea surface temperatures could help promote outbreaks of crown-of-thorns seastars (COTS) that have devastated much of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef. ... More >>
Oldest fur seal identified
Thursday, 12 February 2015, 10:27 am | University of Otago
The oldest known fur seal has been discovered by a University of Otago Geology PhD student, providing a missing link that helps to resolve a more than 5-million-year gap in fur seal and sea lion evolutionary history. More >>
Otago congratulates alumnus on Timor-Leste PM appointment
Wednesday, 11 February 2015, 5:15 pm | University of Otago
The University of Otago is extending its formal congratulations to the soon-to-be appointed Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mr Rui Araújo, who is a graduate of its Diploma and Master of Public Health programmes. More >>
Scientists reveal rapid penguin extinction and arrivals
Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 10:11 am | University of Otago
An international research team led by scientists from the University of Otago’s Department of Zoology has documented one of the most rapid biological transition events ever found. More >>
Research indicates new hope for Parkinson’s sufferers
Friday, 30 January 2015, 3:38 pm | University of Otago
Research at the University of Otago indicates remarkable success with a new approach to treating Parkinson’s disease that holds out new hope for dramatically improved movement and quality of life for sufferers. More >>
Reversing brain inflammation improves diabetes symptoms
Friday, 30 January 2015, 12:21 pm | University of Otago
Using an antioxidant to reverse inflammation in the brain caused by a high-fat diet greatly improves symptoms related to obesity and type II diabetes, a new University of Otago-led study suggests. The research, which appears in the leading international ... More >>
Otago announces professorial promotions
Thursday, 29 January 2015, 2:09 pm | University of Otago
Fifteen leading University of Otago academics are being promoted to full professorships. Announcing the promotions, University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne warmly congratulated the new professors on their well-earned promotions which ... More >>
Patents provide insight on Wall Street technology arms race
Monday, 26 January 2015, 11:04 am | University of Otago
A new University of Otago study has used US patent data to shed light on the technological roots behind Wall Street’s ongoing ‘technology arms race’. The way financial assets are traded, and the nature of the markets themselves, has dramatically changed ... More >>
Otago study indicates exercise sharpens young adult brain
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 10:08 am | University of Otago
Regular physical activity improves brain function even in young adults considered in their prime and at the height of cognitive ability, according to a new University of Otago study. More >>
Otago collaborates in breakthrough for quantum hard drive
Friday, 9 January 2015, 12:12 pm | University of Otago
A team of Australian and New Zealand physicists have extended the storage time for a prototype quantum super-computer optical hard drive by over one hundred times. More >>
Better Govt reforms needed for NZ coronial system
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 9:46 am | University of Otago
All organisations targeted in coroners’ findings – whether public or private - should be required to respond within three months, and the responses made public, a major University of Otago review of the coronial system has recommended. More >>
Grant awarded for approach to stop biofilm-based infections
Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 10:46 am | University of Otago
A University of Otago biochemist has been awarded a $50,000 grant to develop enzymes that prevent infection-causing biofilms from growing on catheters and other medical devices. More >>
WWI veterans had persisting higher risk of early death
Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 9:38 am | University of Otago
New research on the impact of the First World War on participating New Zealand soldiers shows they typically lost around eight years of life and had an increased risk of early death in the post-war period. More >>
Otago researchers join new global Urban Health Programme
Tuesday, 16 December 2014, 12:33 pm | University of Otago
New Zealand researchers are adding their expertise in housing and health to a newly launched global consortium of science and health organisations known as the Urban Health and Wellbeing Programme. More >>
