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Through its members and affiliated societies, the Otago Institute represents an independent voice for S&T in Otago. It promotes excellence in S&T and seeks to inform the public of Otago regarding new and important ideas as well as promote the profile of the people who develop them.
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Friday 4 November 2011:
Genetics Otago, The National Research Centre for Growth and Development and the Otago Institute are proud to present a lecture by renowned Nutritional Ecologist, Professor David Raubenheimer, on Tuesday November 15 at 5PM at the St David Lecture Theatre. Full details on the Lecture can be found by
clicking here and a flyer for the lecture can be found here.
Wednesday 19 October 2011:
The inaugural ScienceTeller Festival will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from November 15th - 19th 2011. ScienceTeller is a celebration of Storytelling and Science dedicated to documentary filmmaking, writing and other creative media. Full details on the Festival can be found by
clicking here.
Wednesday 19 October 2011:
You are cordially invited to attend a lecture by Professor Robert Hannah: A Dummy's Guide to Archaeastronomy, on Wednesday, Nov 2 at 12 noon in the Department of Biochemistry Seminar Room (Room 228). Full details on the Lecture can be found by
clicking here. The lecture will be followed by the 142nd Annual General Meeting of the Otago Institute. The agenda and matters for discussion here.
Tuesday 9 August 2011:
The Royal Society of New Zeland is hosting Professor Norman Hammond, a world expert in the ancient Maya civilisation in Central America and he will be visiting New Zealand in August to present the 2011 New Zealand Aronui Lecture. Professor Hammond holds positions at Boston, Harvard and Cambridge universities and is the archaeology correspondent for The Times newspaper. Full details on the Lecture can be found by
clicking here.
Thursday 2 June 2011:
The Dunedin Astronomical Society cordially extends an invitation to members of the Otago Institute to a talk by Maria Pozza, a PhD student and is a giving a talk titled /Terraforming Mars: The Legal Implications/on The Milky Way at the Beverly Begg Observatory on Tuesday, 7th June at 8pm. Full details about it can be found by clicking here. The Beverly-Begg facebook contains information on the location of the Observatory and can be found by clicking here.
Friday 29 April 2011:
The Dunedin Astronomical Society cordially extends an invitation to members of the Otago Institute to a talk by Mike Broughton on The Milky Way - Our Galaxy, from discovery to destiny at the Beverly Begg Observatory on Tuesday, 3rd May at 8pm. The Beverly-Begg facebook contains information on the location of the Observatory and can be found by clicking here.
Friday 29 April 2011:
Come and hear four of Otago's young researchers compete for the Otago Institute Travel Awards on Tuesday 3 May at 1PM in Quad 1 Lecture Theatre, Geoology Building, University of Otago. The presenters will be
Carolina Loch Santos Da Silva - Department of Geology
Ikerne Aguirre-Bielschowsky - Department of Geography
Tracy Melzer - Christchurch School of Medicine
Lisa McGonigle - Department of English
Wednesday 13 April 2011:
The 2011 Marie Curie Lecture series with Associate Professor Kate McGrath will be held on Tuesday 19 April at 6.00pm at the Hutton Theatre at the Otago Museum. Kate McGrath is of the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, is a principal investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and an associate investigator in the Riddet Institute. Full details about it can be found by clicking here.
Wednesday 23 March 2011:
The Dunedin Astronomical Society cordially invites the Otago Institute to attend what promises to be one of our highlight talks by Robert Hannah, Professor of Classics, on "Ancient Star Calendars" at the
Beverly-Begg Observatory on Tuesday, 5 April at 8pm. Full details about it can be found by clicking here and The Beverly-Begg facebook contains information on the location of the Observatory and can be found by clicking here.
Friday 11 March 2011:
Professor Sir Alan Mark (right) receives the Royal Society of New Zealand's Charles Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement from Professor Jean Fleming (daughter of Sir Charles Fleming) following Prof Mark's public lecture on 3 May 2010. The award honours those who have achieved distinction in the protection, maintenance, management, improvement or understanding of the environment, in particular the sustainable management of the New Zealand environment. The award is made every three years and consists of a medal, a cash grant, and an all expenses paid public lecture tour, visiting selected Royal Society Branches. Photos courtesy of Dr John Highton
Wednesday 23 February 2011:
The Dunedin Astronomical Society cordially extends an invitation to members of the Otago Institute to an evening at the Beverly-Begg Observatory on Tuesday, 22nd March 8pm. It will be an informal occasion
to see the facilities and skies through telescopes, weather permitting.
There will be light refreshments. The Beverly-Begg facebook contains information on the location of the Observatory and can be found by clicking here.
Thursday 10 February 2011:
The Dunedin Astronomical Society will be hosting two talks, one in February and one in March. Full details about them can be found by clicking here.
Thursday 10 February 2011:
Sample issues of The Otago Institute Newsletter still available. Click here for details.
