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Members of the University of Ottawa community are  deeply saddened by the loss of life and injury due to the tragic explosion which took place in Beirut on August 4, 2020. On behalf of our students, faculty and staff we offer our thoughts, courage and prayers to the victims, their families, member...

Ride to Connect started out in June as a grassroots fundraiser where seven uOttawa medical school friends decided to collectively bike the distance across Canada to raise money to help seniors combat social isolation during COVID-19. Just two months later, the Ride to Connect biking community on Strava has grow...

New Positive Energy Survey reveals that 45% of Canadians say now is the best time to be ambitious in addressing climate change but 29% say it is the worst The University of Ottawa's Positive Energy released new survey results examining the influence of COVID-19 on Canadian attitudes towards the country’s energy future in an age of climate chang...

Your Brain on Birth ControluOttawa study could help explain why some women develop mood-related disorders after oral contraceptive use.They are used by 150 million women worldwide and have been around for over 60 years. Oral contraceptives – like birth control pills – are part of many women’s lives, often starting during puberty and early adolescence. ...

New book provides deep dive into the vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic Is the global response to the pandemic effective? Is it inclusive? Three professors from the University of Ottawa,  along with a leading global health ethicist and former Health Minister Jane Philpott, today published a book of essays  analyzing the ...

A Canadian collaboration led by Dr. Baptiste Lacoste has undertaken the first ever in-depth study of vasculature in the autistic brain. The product of four years of work, a paper published today in Nature Neuroscience lays out several lines of novel evidence that strongly implicate defects in endothelial cells—the lining ...

The Ottawa Shanghai Joint School of Medicine (OSJSM) celebrated its first ever cohort today. The program admitted 18 students in its inaugural teaching year in 2016. The graduating class was awarded a Bachelor’s of Clinical Medicine from the Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine (SJTUSM) and a certificate of participation fr...

Federal government and provincial partners entrusting uOttawa and its affiliated research institutes with second round of rapid research funding to help accelerate global response to COVID-19 Nine University of Ottawa researchers, five of whom are also members of uOttawa’s affiliated hospital research institutes, have received over $8....

New Course to Address Critical Long-Term Care Centre Needs In response to a pressing need in today's society - one exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic - the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa will offer a new course this summer titled "COVID 19 Pandemic - Humanitarian Engagement and Critical Thinking". This course will be o...

"The Times They Are a-Changin'" sang Bob Dylan and when a pandemic upends your life and brings its share of social distancing guidelines and restrictions to protect everyone’s safety, one must learn to adapt. And so, we did! Our students and faculty completed their semester online and now the University of Ottawa will host its first eve...