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uOttawa Professor receives prestigious award for her work in chemistry education “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. Alison Flynn relies on this principle every day. The Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Otta...

Thesis projects by uOttawa MFA students will be on display at the Ottawa Art Gallery Five artists who recently earned their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Ottawa will have their works featured in a professional gallery, thanks to a new partnership with the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG). An exhibition entitled Emergent will ...

Dr. Marceline Côté and her team have discovered a druggable pathway the virus uses to trick its way into our organs It was once thought that Ebola and related filoviruses were more or less contained to Central Africa. After a West African outbreak and the discovery of Reston ebolavirus in the Philippines, cuevavirus in Spain and various bat filo...

The University of Ottawa made the following statement of support for Professor Jan Grabowski:   The University of Ottawa offers its unwavering support to Professor Jan Grabowski (Department of History, Faculty of Arts) whose widely respected Holocaust research has led to his unjust conviction this week in a Polish Court for defamation ...

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section is looking to move the discipline beyond the analog age with an ambitious, Canadian first video project to benefit academics and the legal community while capturing the wider public.Jurivision.ca, a digital platform created at uOttawa in collaboration with the Canadian govern...

Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts – the organism with which they live in symbiosis – thereby providing a better understanding of their growth.

The Ottawa Hospital saw a decrease in emergency department admissions for sexual assault and domestic violence in the early days of COVID-19, according to a study published in BMC Medicine. “We were concerned about the rising risk of violence during the lockdown, and wanted to investigate how the pandemic was affecting...

A made-in-Ottawa tool can help emergency physicians predict which patients with mini-strokes are at greatest risk of having a major stroke within the week, according to a study published in The BMJ.  “Mini-strokes can be a warning that a larger stroke is coming,” said Dr. Jeffrey Perry, emergency physician and senior scientist at ...

Here are some of the activities and events taking place at the University of Ottawa to celebrate Black History Month: Tuesday, February 2 Race: A Year in Review with Dr. Marie-Carène Pierre René, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Webinar registration by Zoom Tuesday, February 9 Celebrating Blackness in Literature with Mante...

The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa is launching new entrance scholarships for Black law students.  These scholarships will provide $10,000 to up to five entering Black law students each year.   The scholarships will be renewable for $5,000 in each of the second and third year of law s...