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The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law has been recognized for contributing to strengthening the national legal community in both official languages, particularly for providing students from predominantly English-speaking communities in Western Canada an opportunity to pursue a legal education in French.

New research offers evidence that getting a second or third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the final stages of pregnancy offers protection for infants against SARS-CoV-2 infection (the virus that causes COVID-19 illness).

Mandated for research and teaching, the greenhouses of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa are typically bursting with colors and housing plants of all kinds throughout the year. But sometimes, between semesters and classes, certain bays can sit empty, such as one of the bays on the rooftop of the Bioscience building this spring. With this in mind, Greenhouse Coordinator Michelle Br...

Public awareness, interventions necessary to support transgender adolescents, who are at 5-fold higher risk

We are delighted to announce that Professor Catherine Mavriplis has been awarded the 2022 Educator’s Award for Collegiate Programs by the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN).

The tech job market in computer science and engineering is continuously growing but women are still underrepresented in this field.

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, convocation ceremonies at the University of Ottawa will be held in person, with 14 ceremonies over five days covering three cohorts.

Two new Canada Research Chairs will support innovative, multidisciplinary research at uOttawa. The chairs have been awarded to Professor Augusto Gerolin, whose research is advancing knowledge in artificial intelligence, chemistry and mathematics, and to Professor Erin Maloney, who leads projects on academic success and well-being.

Racial fault lines exist in our societies and events can expose how problematic and pervasive they are around the world; the stress of a pandemic or the social turmoil of war make them explosive.

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