Welcome to the latest edition of @Otago, your University of Otago alumni and friends newsletter.
Trouble viewing this email? Open in browser |
 |
| Unsubscribe |
 |
| |
| |
 |
Building the researchers of the future
The new-look Future Health Researchers Programme at the Christchurch campus gives students a real-world taste of life as a researcher, providing a stepping stone into fulltime research or insight into ways it can be incorporated within a clinical career. |
| |
| |
 |
Leading Thinkers – celebrating a unique gift
The idea was to invest in people, to build human capital, not bricks and mortar. And 21 years later that investment continues to live up to its initial, far-sighted, promise, through the ongoing impact of world-renowned research undertaken by the Leading Thinkers projects. |
| |
|
| |
Your story: Otago inspiring artistic careers
The confidence she gained from performing in bands while studying, is part of the drive behind Otago Arts alumna and Radio One advertising manager in the 80s, Jan Hellriegel, becoming the only female owner of a music publishing business in Australasia.
Read more...
|
|
|
| |
 |
| |
| |
 |
Making a Difference
Alumni generosity enables US scholarships, and cruise tourism research
This year’s MacGibbon Fellows, supported by the Alumni of the University of Otago in America, share their rewarding research experiences in the US, and Dr Wendy London talks about how her interest in cruise tourism started on a wharf in Manhattan in the 1950s. |
|
| |
| |
 |
Hot Picks
We’re excited to launch our latest iOU alumni podcast episode, featuring best-selling author and haematologist Eileen Merriman, and also listen to the winners of Writer competition reading their works, and a selection of other fascinating interviews from alumni.
Hot picks... |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
Global Lens Photo Competition winners 2024
Thank you for another fantastic response to our 2024 Global Lens Photo Competition. We received more than 100 entries this year from all corners of the world, and this year’s results can now be revealed. Congratulations to our winners and runners up!
View gallery...
|
|
|
| |
Upcoming 2024 Reunions and Events
For more details on upcoming events visit our alumni events calendar, information will be updated as it becomes available. Email reunions.alumni@otago.ac.nz if you would like more details or are interested in organising a reunion for your class. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
 |
Networks and Events
Our alumni networks have been busy connecting around the globe, including events in China, Europe, New York, the UK and Australia, the Class of ’79 reunion in Wellington and the Court of Benefactors Leading Thinkers anniversary celebration at Otago.
Networks and events ... |
| |
 |
Why We ♥ Otago
Celebrating 75 years of our PE graduates
As we celebrate 75 years of our PE graduates next March, we’ve delved into the photo archives and come up with a great selection of distant and not-so-distant photos from the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences. Take a look back, and also find out more about the reunion.
Why We ♥ Otago...
|
|
| |
| |
 |
Alumni in the News
Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Callaghan Medal; Law graduate Hamish Darling’s tech start-up Thistle Finder helps employers make informed hiring decisions; Justice Christine French has been appointed President of the Court of Appeal, Mazlan Othman talks about her career in astrophysics and Ben Reeves undertook a cross-country challenge to raise money for Movember.
Alumni in the News... |
| |
 |
Opportunities for Alumni
Subscribe to our quarterly book recommendations newsletter for alumni. Summer issue out January 2025.
Subscribe...
Registration is now open for the celebrations to commemorate 150 years of the Otago Medical School, Te Kura Hauora o Ōtākou!
|
|
| |
 |
| |
|
|
|
why did I get this? – update contact details – contact database.alumni@otago.ac.nz
Development and Alumni Relations Office – 64 3 479 4516 – PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054
|
| Home | Contact | Donate | Privacy Statement | Unsubscribe |
 |