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Solving Canadian health challenges through systems biology The University of Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology (OISB) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are initiating an exciting collaboration on systems biology, aimed at solving some of today’s most significant health challenges. Systems biology takes a big-picture a...

Your office is alive, your building is smart, and it is enabling you to work more efficiently than ever!

You arrive on campus, coffee in hand, ready to tackle the day. You type a code into a keypad at the front door, allowing you access to the building.

The Ottawa Hospital’s Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) is manufacturing three COVID-19 vaccines for human clinical trials, filling a critical gap in Canada’s vaccine manufacturing capacity. “It has been amazing to see the rapid development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, but we can’t stop now,” said Dr. Duncan Stewar...

In a world where transactions are increasingly carried out online and experiences take place in the digital realm, user experience has never been more important.

What region are you from within the Canadian Francophonie? I was born and raised in Sudbury, in a loving and attentive family. Early on, I knew that I was different from the other children in my neighbourhood. Every summer, we would travel by train or car to St-François-de-Madawaska, my dad’s hometown in New Brunswick’s Brayon community. My mother’s f...

The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that planning has started for a revitalized campus experience for the Fall 2021 term. The University has an ambitious plan to provide a full, enriching on-campus experience with an increase in in-person and hybrid learning formats. Currently, most courses are being offered online due to c...

The University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors has appointed Jennifer Adams as its new Chair.  Ms. Adams assumes this role as a seasoned leader in education and academia. She recently completed an eight-year term as the Director of Education for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, serving a diverse po...

The Institute for Science, Society and Policy will host Faculty Affiliate Professor Stacey Smith? at the ISSP Food for Thought Panel to discuss how modelling potential COVID-19 outcomes on campus helped uOttawa. By early March of 2020, it became apparent that COVID-19 was going to have a significant impact on institutions throughout s...

Last year after a month of remote working, Chief Information Officer Martin Bernier realized that the hours of his workday would fly by in online meetings, without a break.