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The textbooks used in post secondary institutions around the world invariably teach students about research findings, inventions and discoveries by renowned mathematicians and scientists such as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Thomas Edison.

Respect, equity, diversity, and inclusion are core values of the Faculty of Science (FoS), which is taking several actionable steps to enhance the atmosphere and work culture within the faculty.

Information Technology is pleased to announce that the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) project rollout is complete.

A novel brain imaging technique can potentially be used in large-scale screenings for Alzheimer’s, while also providing possible insights about the disease’s earliest stages, long before symptoms emerge.

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine has launched a new partnership program to help address the underrepresentation of Inuit and Nunavummiut physicians in the Nunavut healthcare workforce.

Recognizing the mental health benefits of nature and building on the foundation of her doctoral work at the University of Ottawa – which focused on the intersections of citizenship education and arts-based education – Joan Harrison, a part-time professor in the Faculty of Education, decided, with the help of education students and a grant from NatureHood Canada, to launch a nature-based after-scho...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform how science and engineering is conducted and funded in Canada, bringing both tremendous opportunities and risks, according to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). AI has the potential to spur innovation and further scientific understanding beyond the limits of human abilities but could also deepen existing inequ...

Our U.S. neighbours have been lamenting the dissolution of their shared sense of reality for years. The trucker convoys that overtook Ottawa and several other Canadian cities this winter appear to have ushered in similar anxieties on this side of the border.

Scientists play a vital role in helping us understand the way the world works and in finding solutions to address society’s various pressing problems.

Mathematical models can project the progression of infectious diseases and help predict the likely outcome of an epidemic.