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Statement from the University of Ottawa’s President and Vice-Chancellor, Jacques Frémont:   Today, as outrage over both systemic racism and specific acts of violent racial discrimination reverberates across North America, I want to stress that the University of Ottawa stands in solidarity with our Black students, faculty and staff and join them ...

In a world holding its breath for a vaccine, it’s easy to forget immunization is only one piece of the puzzle. A person who already has COVID-19 needs treatment, and our current treatment options are very limited. A University of Ottawa team, led by Dr. Alan Tinmouth and Dr. Dean Fergusson, is part of a collaboration aiming to settle t...

New hormone that stimulates sexual functions in fish could lead to novel infertility treatments in humans When University of Ottawa biologists Kim Mitchell and Vance Trudeau began studying the effects of gene mutations in zebrafish, they uncovered new functions that regulate how males and females interact while mating. We sat down wit...

The University of Ottawa wants to express its most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jonathan Blanchette, PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering, who was missing since last February. It is a difficult time for those who knew this student who had a brilliant future ahead of him. The University reminds all members of its university co...

OTTAWA, May 6, 2020 - uOttawa’s Board of Governors yesterday approved the 2020-2021 budget for the University and agreed to maintain pre-COVID-19 financial assumptions, with the caveat that both close monitoring and mitigation strategies are required as the pandemic evolves. The University administration has been monitoring the impact of the pandemic ...

Dr. Michael Rudnicki has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the most prestigious and oldest scientific institution in the world. The Royal Society was founded in 1660 and is composed of about 1,600 fellows, with up to 52 new fellows appointed each year. Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are...

We know the disruption of student life and academics brought about by COVID-19 has led to much uncertainty amongst students and their families. As we look ahead, we want to reassure you that Ontario’s universities remain committed to providing high quality education for our students. Ontario universities are planning now for a fall term and are focuse...

Monica Gattinger, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), and Chair of Positive Energy, has been named to the prestigious Canada’s Clean50 list for 2020. The announcement was made by Delta Management Group and the Clean50 organization. According to Gavin Pitchford, CEO of Delta Manageme...

This piece was originally published on Apolitical on April 6, 2020. It was written by Michael A. O'Neill from the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Like colleagues in universities across the globe, I too was forced to make overnight pedagogical transitions from traditional face-to-face instruction to an entirely ...

Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, have created a new interactive website, www.613covid.ca, that predicts various scenarios around the number of hospitalizations and deaths in Ottawa due to COVID-19. “Creating accurate, long-range projections to predict growth of COVID-19 is dif...