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At the University of Ottawa’s Department of Family Medicine, improving primary health care for all Canadians is one of the main priorities. With the creation of a new chair in family medicine research, uOttawa and its partners, the Institut du Savoir Montfort (ISM) and the Montfort Foundation, have given themselves the new tools they n...

The University of Ottawa remains among Canada's Top 50 Research Universities 2019, according to the notable Research Infosource ranking published today. For 2019, the University of Ottawa maintained its 9th position in the medical/doctoral category, which includes universities offering a broad range of PhD programs, research, and medic...

While distant and online learning is well-established, academic conferences have remained an in-person activity. This will change with a new conference, the Photonics Online Meetup (POM), launched by six photonics leaders from around the world, including University of Ottawa postdoctoral fellow Orad Reshef, that aims to encourage a...

The University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI) is partnering with MindBridge Ai and Willis College (Willis) to address the gender inequity challenge confronting the AI and Cybersecurity workforce.  Womxn make up less than 20 percent of the workforce, which further exacerbates the talent shortage and skills crisis&nbs...

The first full draft of the final report of the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES) will be tabled during the Food, Nutrition and Environment of First Nations Forum, that will be held at the Delta Hotel in Ottawa, on November 5-6, 2019. The forum will provide the opportunity to discuss 10 years’ worth of related...

In this era of reconciliation, where the federal government and the Canadian public have struggled to match an earnest wish for a new relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the necessary tools to secure it, the Shawn and Khush Singh Lecture Series is proud to host Natan Obed on Monday, November 4, 2019. President of In...

Two researchers from the University of Ottawa were part of an international study that identified an enzyme that strongly inhibits ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of cell death implicated in neurodegeneration and ischemic reperfusion injury. It turns out that ferroptosis suppressor protein-1 (FSP1) is expressed in a wide variety of ...

Dear Members of the University Community, It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the death of a member of our uOttawa community. Yesterday, Ottawa Police Services confirmed the death of an undergraduate student in an apartment off campus. On behalf of the uOttawa community, I wish to express our heartfelt condolences to the family, friend...

The University of Ottawa consolidated its position as a leading research institution on Ontario, Canadian and international Francophones on Monday by unveiling three new research chairs on the Francophone world (CRMF), as well as the first Chaire mobilité francophone (Francophone Mobility Chair). These three chairs are part of the Coll...

To mark a step in their efforts towards reconciliation, and as a first step to bringing Indigenous art and aesthetics on its campus, the University of Ottawa commissioned a statue from sculptor David General, Mohawk & Oneida from Six Nations of the Grand River. The piece is titled “She dances with the earth, water, and sky”, and represents an abst...