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Painful joints, performance anxiety, hearing loss, visual complications… musicians often deal with these problems. The fact that musicians face these hardships is still taboo, and they have a hard time finding help. Too often, the stigma and the lack of resources prevent them from reaching out. That’s exactly why the School of Music an...

On Wednesday, October 9, five renowned legal experts will discuss and dissect some the most important cases that will be before the Supreme Court of Canada this fall. The cases (Uber Technologies Inc., et al. v. David Heller; Joanne Fraser, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada; Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness v. Attorney Genera...

OTTAWA, October 5, 2019 – A new $2.1 million gift from distinguished alumnus Alex Trebek and Jeopardy! host will allow the University of Ottawa to expand the global reach and impact of the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue. The donation raises his financial commitment to the University to a total of $9.5 million. The Alex Trebek Forum fo...

Food is a universal language that unites people no matter their origin. It is a commonality that brings people together whatever part of the world they live in, especially if this food is chocolate. Peace By Chocolate and the University of Ottawa announced today a joint endeavour called the Welcome Bar, a fundraising initiati...

Today, Calin and Elaine Rovinescu announced the creation of the Rovinescu Admission Scholarships for new Canadians, to benefit undergraduate and professional degree students at both the University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal through a generous gift of $2M, to be divided equally between the two universities. The Rovinescu Schol...

uOttawa President apologizes following the release of investigator’s report into June incident Ottawa, October 1st, 2019 – The president of the University of Ottawa, Jacques Frémont, offered a public apology today to a student involved in an incident last June, which resulted in allegations of racism. The President also releaseda report from an indep...

Jacques Frémont, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, issued the following statement: Today I am making public an independent investigator’s report concerning the incident that occurred on our campus in June involving one of our students and the university’s Protection Services. When I commissioned the investigation, I committed...

Researchers have struggled for years to understand how mutations in one gene, called LRRK2, can increase the risk of three very different diseases: Parkinson’s (a brain disease), Crohn’s (a gut disease) and leprosy (a peripheral nervous system disease). Now, a Canadian team has found that inflammation is the likely culprit. Their result...

New technologies are changing the health and well-being landscape at record-breaking speed and on Tuesday September 17th, 2019, Sodexo and the uOttawa LIFE Research Institute proudly announced a new, three-year partnership that will support innovative research projects and allow us to keep up with this ever-changing world. Sodexo, a wo...

If humans often rely on social relationships with family and friends to mitigate the negative effects of stress, the effects that social buffering offers against stress can benefit fish too. A new study co-authored by former University of Ottawa student Brett Culbert (currently a PhD student at the University of Guelph), University of ...