Applications are invited for the Otago Institute Postgraduate Student Travel Award 2019 The Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences offers travel scholarships to assist Otago/Southland-based postgraduate students to travel as part of their postgraduate study. The winner will receive $1000 for the purpose of conference attendance and/or other project-related travel. Key dates: NEW application deadline: midnight, Read more about 2019 Postgraduate Travel Award[…]

Four speakers take ten minutes each to describe the big breakthroughs or events in their research and practice during the last year. What’s hot in Animal Law? Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere, Faculty of Law, U. Otago What’s hot in Nanotechnology? Carla Meledandri, Department of Chemistry, U. Otago What’s hot in Anatomical Knitting? Michele Beevors, Sculpture and Read more about What’s Hot! Four speakers, presented by the Otago Institute of Arts and Sciences[…]

The winner of the 2018 Otago Institute Postgraduate Student Travel Award is Manon Knapen (Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago), The value of evidence in health decision-making.

Professor Merryn Tawhai: Digital breaths: The benefits of bioengineering Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, 5:30pm Thu 28 June, 2018 For more information, see here.

The finalists for the 2018 Otago Institute Postgraduate Student Travel Award have been selected! More information here.

The 2017 report by Otago Institute President James Scott can be downloaded here.

Please see the page dedicated to the travel award for information on how to apply. Deadline: 6 May.

3 April | DUNEDIN. Hubble Chief Scientist Dr Jennifer Wiseman will give a public talk, launching the 2018 Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference. For more details, see https://royalsociety.org.nz/events/the-hubble-space-telescope-our-window-to-an-amazing-universe/.