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17 unusual facts about University of Otago


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In 1985, the Physiology Department at New Zealand's University of Otago encouraged the development of a computer-based data acquisition system to replace their paper-based systems.

Alfred Rowland Chetham-Strode

Chetham-Strode was a member of Council of the University of Otago in 1869, and represented the Council at the tercentenary of the Edinburgh University in 1884.

Alison Holst

Holst graduated from the University of Otago, then a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Home Science and subsequently spent a year at Teachers' College.

Alon Tal

In 1998, Tal was a visiting scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand, where he wrote Pollution in a Promised Land, a comprehensive history of Israel’s environment.

Andrew Boyens

He started his playing career in New Zealand, playing for University of Otago and semi-professional club Dunedin Technical before transferring to University of New Mexico in 2004, where he was named a first-team All-American in 2006.

Brent Hodge

After high school he attended University of Victoria for a year before completing a degree in commerce at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Burns Fellowship

Robert Burns Fellowship, University of Otago - a New Zealand literary fellowship based in the nation's most Scottish city

Cheese roll

Food researchers, notably Professor Helen Leach of the University of Otago, have identified three basic traditional styles of filling, with all known recipes seemingly a variant of these three.

Clare Mallory

She attended Southland Girls' High School where she was dux, University of Otago in Dunedin where she studied English and Latin, graduating with an M.A., and Somerville College, Oxford where she gained a First in English language.

Duncan Oughton

Oughton attended the University of Otago in New Zealand, before moving to the United States to play college soccer at Cal State Fullerton from 1997 to 2000.

Justin Summerton

He also went to university in this same city, having completed both a Bachelor of Commerce (1987) and a Bachelor of Arts (1993) at the University of Otago.

Marie Breen Smyth

With Richard Jackson (University of Otago), Jeroen Gunning (Durham University), Piers Robinson (Manchester University) and George Kassimeris (Wolverhampton University) Breen Smyth currently edits the Routledge journal Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Michael H. Albert

Michael Henry Albert (born September 20, 1962) is a mathematician and computer scientist, originally from Canada, and currently a professor and the head of the computer science department at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Mocha Island

Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith of the University of Otago and José-Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga of the University of Valparaíso hope to win agreement soon with the locals of Mocha Island to begin an excavation search for Polynesian remains on the island.

Paul Foster-Bell

He studied in Dunedin, gaining a degree in archaeology (2003) and a diploma in business (2008) from Otago University.

Research Foundation for Governance in India

Katie Farrer – Bachelor of Law and Political Science student at University of Otago, New Zealand

William Tolhurst

He received his education from Masterton West School, Wanganui Collegiate School, Victoria University of Wellington, and Otago University, and he gained an FCA (Fellow of Chartered Accountants) and a BCom.


2005 New Zealand election funding controversy

University of Otago electoral law expert Andrew Geddis' opinion was that National probably did not break the law, but that the party's actions "stank" and that the electoral system was like "panel beaters designing intersections".

Ahmed Ismail Samatar

Samatar has lectured at many universities and colleges, including Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, London School of Economics and Political Science, Somali National University, Toronto University, University of Amsterdam, York University, University of Otago, and Wellesley College.

Castle Street, Dunedin

The street runs in a north-north-east direction from Stuart Street outside Dunedin Railway Station to the southern end of the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, and is bisected into two distinct parts by the University of Otago campus.

Christine Jensen Burke

Christine is a graduate of the University of Otago in New Zealand, where she completed her undergraduate law degree in 1990, and of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where she completed her Masters of Laws in Environmental Law in 1997.

David Benson-Pope

Born in Dunedin and educated at King's High School, Benson-Pope received his tertiary education at the University of Otago and at the Christchurch College of Education.

David Stenhouse

After taking degrees in both Philosophy (under John Passmore) and Zoology at the University of Otago, he lectured at Universities in New Zealand and Australia - in the Department of Zoology at The University of Queensland, the Department of Education at Massey University, and the Department of Psychology at Massey University.

Jiro Kikkawa

He subsequently spent three years at the University of Otago in New Zealand where he began what was to become an enduring focus of research, the behavioural ecology of Silvereyes and other species of Zosterops.

Michael A. Noonan

In 1979, Noonan became the first scriptwriter to be awarded a Robert Burns Fellowship by the University of Otago.

Nigel Keay

Nigel Keay has held the following composer residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 and 1987, Nelson School of Music 1988 and 89, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 1995.

Otago Region

Unlike other southern centres, Dunedin’s population has not declined since the 1970s due to the presence of the University of Otago especially its medical school which attracts students from all over New Zealand and overseas.

Thomas William Hislop

He was educated by his father until the age of twelve, and then attended John Shaw's Grammar School (Albany Street, Dunedin), Dunedin High School and University of Otago, where he studied law.