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New online master’s degree builds on uOttawa’s and Keypath Education’s shared commitment to create more accessible learning opportunities for students in health care industries and beyond The Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and Keypath Education Canada are announcing the launch of the country’s first Executive M...

Family physicians across the country are harnessing the power of digital communication to tackle vaccine hesitancy, relying on text and email to share evidence-based resources regarding COVID-19 vaccines with patients who are hesitating or facing barriers to vaccination. Physicians from the University of Ottawa’s Department of Family ...

Hooman Chamani, a PhD candidate in Ottawa, is motivated by one thing: to address the global water crisis in an environmentally friendly manner. It may sound simple, but until recently, it was not. Now, thanks to his work alongside Dr. Christopher Lan and Dr. Takeshi Matsuura, professors in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engi...

The University of Ottawa's Positive Energy program released new survey results tracking Canadians’ views about action on climate change. The results provide a timely snapshot of Canadian attitudes towards climate action prior to the federal election call and the fourth wave of COVID-19. The survey was conducted by Positive Energy’s offi...

uOttawa Faculty of Science professor co-leads study, leads modeling effort on international project retracing lifetime of prehistoric animal

OTTAWA, Ontario (August 10th, 2021) – Today, the University of Ottawa announced that vaccination would be mandatory for all students, faculty, staff, and anyone returning to or visiting campus as of September 7th, 2021.   From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University’s priority has been to safeguard the health of ...

The University of Ottawa’s V-TRaC lab invites you to the virtual launch of the ‘Becoming Antiracist’ educational training tool, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and created for use at schools, community organizations and the public.  Born out of the mental health research of Professors Jude Mary Cénat (Faculty of Socia...

Three-way collaborative effort leveraging uOttawa’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research aims to revolutionize the way Wi-Fi networks worldwide are managed and optimized to vastly improve quality of experience NetExperience, creator of the first end to end WLAN software and service compatible with Ope...

A new study published in the Canadian Association of Radiologists’ Journal shows that Canadian jurisdictions that offer more frequent mammograms to women with dense breasts had fewer cancers diagnosed between screens. The study examined medical records of almost 150,000 women with dense breasts undergoing breast screening across Canada ...

Understanding the legal, policy and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic is the central theme to an intensive summer program open to professionals and university students at the University of Ottawa next month. The University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics’ Summer Institute in Health Law is offering an im...