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Message to our community regarding the National Day of Mourning to Commemorate Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II:

When you are first learning how to ride a bicycle or play a musical instrument, your physical movements are uncoordinated at best. But with time and lots of repetition, your brain’s motor neurons create a kind of shorthand between mind and muscle. The associated motions eventually become so ingrained that jumping on a bike or playing scales feels nearly automatic.

Associate Professor Heather Kharouba from uOttawa’s Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, is leading a project with an eye to understanding the endangered insect’s eating habits within the Ottawa area, which will help better understand how local nectar sources aid with autumn migration. Professor Kharouba provides some insight into the research.

Mental health problems remained elevated over the pandemic as meta-analysis reveals North Americans suffered increased anxiety, depression & PTSD while Latin America and Europe fell into the thralls of insomnia

Vaccination against COVID-19 during pregnancy is not associated with a higher risk of preterm birth, small for gestational age at birth, or stillbirth, concludes a new population based retrospective cohort study led by the CHEO Research Institute and the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine.

uOttawa Biology study finds climate change is waking bumblebees earlier from winter hibernation, putting the species at risk with impact on human agricultural crops

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section invites media to a ceremony launching Canada’s first Indigenous Law Certificate Program in French.

Thanks to the University of Ottawa’s STEM summer program, students are using technology to solve real-world problems, help their community, and develop their own technical and leadership skills.

The University of Ottawa-led team’s rigorous study has the potential to help reshape the science of weight-loss programs so they can be personalized for individual patients with difficult-to-treat obesity

Update non the negotiations with the APTPUO, the union representing our part time professors