Parkinson’s disease detected by smartwatch seven years before diagnosis
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Flat manager left to clean up severely trashed Otago student property
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Experienced professor hopes to boost Waikato University's research profile
Professor Gary Wilson has supervised more than 35 masters and doctoral students.
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Otago University opens new residential college
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Opinion: Is this a Dunedin initiation or a CIA black site torture method?
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University of Otago students warned of expulsion over flat initiations
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Told to strip, called ‘piggies’: Uni students' horrific initiation claims
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University of Otago student president condemns eel and duck hazing rituals
The student leader says rituals involving ducks and eels are 'completely unacceptable'.
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‘Sick and twisted’: Otago students bite leg off duck in flat initiation
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Live eel used in 'traumatic' Otago flat initiation
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'I was so shocked': Four rising stars win Six60 scholarship
Four talented Otago students have been chosen for an exclusive Six60 scholarship.
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Dentist with Hawke’s Bay roots wants to fill the gaping hole in our health system
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