A community of support deeply attuned to the experiences of Black medical students, the uOttawa Black Medical Students Association is an empowering space for mentorship, peer support, and dismantling barriers.
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With close to a hundred universities in Canada to choose from, here’s what makes uOttawa different.

Black History Month Entrepreneurship Spotlight - Meet Dominique Bower (BSc ’19)
As part of uOttawa’s Black History Month celebrations, the uOttawa Alumni Engagement Office is proud to spotlight alumni-owned or community-adjacent businesses making an impact. Meet Dominique Bower, founder of SlamScience.

Student group an unbreakable chain of mentorship

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Building Inclusive Learning Environments
In this article, Karine Coen-Sanchez explores the importance of culturally responsive pedagogy and the creation of inclusive learning environments to combat polite racism in schools.
Learn together: Black Canadians: History, Presence, and Anti-Racist Futures
We would like to celebrate Black History Month by inviting you to take a course created by Dr. W. Andy Knight on Coursera called Black Canadians: Hist…
Generative AI symposium: the impact on higher education
Join us for a full-day symposium dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of Generative AI on higher education. This event will bring together…
Ecosystem archaeology: soil as a paleoecological archive.
Soil is the most long-lived component of terrestrial ecosystems, preserving traces of various disturbances for millennia. Examples of disturbances tha…
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