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The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached for a new collective agreement with the members of the Information Technology Professionals of the University of Ottawa (ITPUO), represented by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC). The tentative agreement has been approved by t...

Dear students, professors and staff, Many things have been written and said over the past few days concerning the use of the n-word by one of our professors in the Faculty of Arts. I made a public statement to emphasize that academic freedom is not incompatible with the right to be treated with dignity. In doing so, I may not have sufficiently un...

The following is a statement that President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont delivered at the University of Ottawa’s Senate meeting on Monday, October 19. Dear members of the uOttawa community, You have perhaps heard about a recent incident at the Faculty of Arts wherein a part-time professor used the “n-word” during a class. A student reacted aft...

The Hate Crimes unit of the Ottawa Police Service is currently investigating a disturbing incident involving a hate/bias graffiti that occurred on the uOttawa campus yesterday afternoon. The University of Ottawa unreservedly condemns all acts of racism. The University asserts the absolute right of every individual to live in dignity, free from discrim...

The following message is for support staff (SSUO-OSSTF) who are on strike as of 12:01 am this morning. Dear SSUO Members We know that negotiations and a strike are stressful for everyone. We are very disappointed about the outcome. No one at the University wants you to be on strike. We want you to know that we have listened carefully to your concern...

In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Israeli scientists have been able to create optical framed knots in the laboratory that could potentially be applied in modern technologies. Their work opens the door to new methods of distributing secret cryptographic keys – used to encrypt and decrypt da...

Researchers at uOttawa have created a new method to measure the temporal evolution of electric fields with optical frequencies. The new approach, which works in ambient air, facilitates the direct measurement of the field waveform and could lead to breakthroughs in high-speed electronics. To learn more, we talked to Aleksey Korobenko, ...

uOttawa researcher participates in the first ever Lancet Child and Adolescent Health Commission to address forgotten issue of pediatric pain Up to 10 percent of young people experience disabling chronic pain into early adulthood, suffering from conditions ranging from arthritis to other types of musculoskeletal pain, recurrent abdomina...

For Éric Michaud, understanding his COVID-19 diagnosis was a driving force for signing up to Stop the Spread Ottawa, a University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital initiative aimed at accelerating vaccine development against the novel coronavirus that has transformed our way of life. “I want to help protect society,” explains Éric, who...

Six University of Ottawa-affiliated projects focusing on COVID-19’s impact on mental health have won important funding grants totalling over $1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).  The Government of Canada’s Knowledge Synthesis Grant: COVID-19 Rapid...