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Members of the media may directly contact the following expert:   Peter Jaskiewicz (English only) Full Professor and University Research Chair in Enduring Entrepreneurship, Telfer School of [email protected] The focus of Professor Jaskiewicz’s research is on family businesses. Below are his thoughts related t...

Congratulations to Angelina Barrucco, whose artwork, Pandemic Soap Study 2020, has won the Vice-President, Research Holiday Greeting Card Contest!

Members of the media may directly contact the following experts: A COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available to Canadians in 2021. The following experts are available to comment on the topic. Medical/Science Dr. Earl Brown (English only) Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of...

Canada Deputy Primer Minister Chrystia Freeland tables her first federal budget as Finance Minister on Monday.    Members of the media may directly contact the following expert(s): Geneviève Tellier (English and French) Full Professor, Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences [email protected]   ...

Yiran Ding is a 2020 graduate of the Master of Arts in Bilingualism Studies offered by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute. She was born and raised in China, with Mandarin as her mother tongue. Learning English in school, she quickly realized that speaking another language introduced her not only to new words, but also to a new culture and a different way of seeing things. This spark...

This innovative, competency-based program represents a unique opportunity for the University to strengthen its collaboration with the local and international business community in Egypt and Africa.

A discussion of Canada's aging workforce and its implications To what extent and how do beliefs around aging impact work engagement and retention? In turn, how does knowledge-sharing and mentoring between young and older workers shape age-based attitudes? Findings have highlighted the importance of developing workplaces that engage and...

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general anesthesia. General anesthesia involves using drugs to make a patient unconscious and inserting a tube into their windpipe to help with breathing. Spi...

Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Irvin Waller (English and French) Emeritus Professor, Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences   [email protected] A tense atmosphere awaited the police chief’s request to the Ottawa Police Services Board to increase the force’s operational budget by over $13 million...

MD-PhD student Taylor Jamieson-Datzkiw earns the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous After initially spending hours glued to YouTube because of an interest in virus’ and their role in cancer treatment, uOttawa MD-PhD student Taylor Jamieson-Datzkiw is now being recognized for her innovative work to help create new can...