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A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa has made an important breakthrough that will help better understand the origin and behavior of slow earthquakes, a new type of earthquake discovered by scientists nearly 20 years ago. These earthquakes produce movement so slow – a single event can last for days, even months – that they ...

The University of Ottawa today launched a new scholarship fund to honour the memory of three University of Ottawa students who lost their lives on January 8, 2020, in the tragic crash of Flight PS752. Mehraban Badiei Ardestani, Saeed Kadkhodazadeh Kashani and Alma Oladi had chosen to study at uOttawa and were returning from Iran after visiting their f...

The University of Ottawa will hold a memorial ceremony Friday, January 10 to honour three of our students who died in the tragic crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Tehran this week. The Iranian Student Association of the University of Ottawa (ISAUO) and the Nowruz Student Association will join the University in ho...

The University of Ottawa will hold a memorial ceremony Friday, January 10 to honour three of our students who died in the tragic crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Tehran this week. The University confirms that the following students were among the victims of Flight PS752: Mehraban Badiei Ardestani, an undergraduate student enrol...

The University of Ottawa is aware of reports that three of its students are listed on the passenger manifest of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 that crashed in Tehran, Iran. The University of Ottawa is deeply saddened by this tragic crash and is working to confirm their identities. The entire campus is affected by this tragedy; we offer o...

A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with a diameter of around a billionth of a meter, or about the width of a single DNA molecule. The potential applications of these nanopores are so diverse - from medicine to information technology (IT) - that they could have a major impact on our daily lives. Now a team of researchers at the...

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine will be hosting a luncheon reception on Wednesday, January 8, to launch its 75th anniversary celebrations. Dean of Medicine Dr. Bernard Jasmin and Dr. Susan Lamb, Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine in the Department of Innovation in Medical Education will speak about the Faculty’...

On November 27, 2019, a password protected laptop was stolen from a University of Ottawa employee’s vehicle.  The laptop was used to administer the Destination Clic program, a three-week summer program located at the University of Ottawa for francophone students in Grades 8 and 9 who live outside of Quebec. As soon as the laptop was reported miss...

Defying social conventions, breaking the glass ceiling... these are expressions that could define Monique Aubry Frize's illustrious career. In the book A Woman in Engineering, Memoirs of a Trailblazer. An Autobiography by Monique (Aubry) Frize, published on December 17, 2019, by the University of Ottawa Press, Dr. Frize recalls her yout...

  Seven University of Ottawa researchers are on the Web of Science Group's 2019 list of the most frequently cited scientists internationally. The list identifies scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple papers, highly cited by their peers, during the last decade. ...