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Are academic journals immune to gender bias? Not according to a new collaborative study conducted by researchers at uOttawa and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (U.K.) published in The Lancet, which reveals that the authors, reviewers and editors of academic journal articles are mostly men. Listing several reports o...

For over 150 years, Francophones have helped shape the face of Ottawa. The French Life in the Capital virtual exhibition brings to light significant events in this little known part of the capital’s history. The objective is to tell Canadians an untold Ottawa story about the participation of Francophones in building the nation's capital...

Located in Canada’s Gulf of Saint Laurence, Anticosti Island is home to one of the world’s richest deposits of fossils and sedimentary rock, dating back some 445 million years, a time known as the end of the Ordovician period. Like the pages of a mystery novel, these layers of limestone gradually reveal the secrets of over 15 million ye...

  Sebastien’s Story Researchers tackle Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in children The number of children diagnosed and treated with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis has tripled over the past 15 years. New research at the University of Ottawa/CHEO Research Institute is looking to significantly improve the lives of thes...

A new study suggests that a common treatment for erectile dysfunction combined with the flu vaccine may be able to help the immune system mop up cancer cells left behind after surgery. The study, published in OncoImmunology, shows that this unconventional strategy can reduce the spread of cancer by more than 90 percent in a mouse model. It is no...

It is the time of the year where students from all faculties celebrate their achievements and receive their degree. It is also a time where uOttawa recognizes activists, visionaries and inspiring leaders with an honorary doctorate for their outstanding accomplishments. WHAT: 2018 uOttawa Spring Convocation WHERE: Shaw Centre, Canada Hall (55 Colonel ...

It starts with a conundrum, a societal problem that needs to be addressed. Then a hypothesis is drawn, tested and tinkered with. After which it is tested again and again. This simplified explanation describes the research process, a topic that is extremely familiar to the following five researchers from The University of Ottawa has ...

The emergence of highly toxic fentanyl analogues in the unregulated drug market has escalated Canada’s opioid overdose crisis. Until now, people have had no reliable way to identify what is in their drugs prior to using them. A new technology implemented by research partners from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University is chang...

Chemistry professor Michael Organ was awarded the prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award, for discoveries that are changing chemical manufacturing processes. An astonishing amount of chemical waste is produced in the making of everyday consumer goods, such as...

The emergence of highly toxic fentanyl analogues in the unregulated drug market has escalated Canada’s opioid overdose crisis. Until now, people have had no reliable way to identify what is in their drugs prior to using them. A new technology, being implemented by research partners from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University will change that...