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Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Nicholas Ng-A-Fook (English and French) Full Professor, Vice-Dean of graduate programs, Faculty of Education. Former Director of the Teacher Education and Indigenous Teacher Education Programs and specialist in Indigenous History. [email protected]   “Workin...

The University of Ottawa wishes to express its solidarity with the University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean, whose mission and existence are threatened due to budget cuts imposed by the provincial government of Alberta. Campus Saint-Jean plays a unique role in promoting and protecting the French language in Alberta. Its closure would be an incalculab...

Members of the media may directly contact the following experts: Pierre Anctil (English and French) Full Professor, Department of History, Faculty of [email protected] How to interpret Canadian history in contemporary public spaces in light of recent movements for social and political change.   Timothy J. Stanley ...

Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Dr. Hugues Loemba (French only) Clinician-researcher, family doctor and virologist. Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of [email protected] Ontario unveiled its COVID-19 school outbreak plan this week. “By asking symptomat...

Members of the media may directly contact the following experts: Pierre C. Bélanger (English and French) Full Professor, Department of Communication, Faculty of [email protected] “Unfortunately, we’ve had to wait until today to grasp the full significance of what Colin Kaepernick had the audacity to denounce.”  ...

If you are teaching a course requiring students to access University computers or software (such as SPSS, ChemDraw, ArcGIS, etc.) for learning purposes, the new StudentLabs Service facilitates student access to these resources from off-campus. StudentLabs is an online portal that offers students remote access to these resources from their personal computers or via a web browser.

Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Jennifer Wallner (English only) Associate Professor in Public Administration, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. Jean Luc Pepin Research Chair in Canadian Politics [email protected] Professor Wallner's research interests include the politics of ...

Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Ivan Katchanovski (English, Ukrainian, Russian) Part-time Professor, Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences [email protected] Professor Ivan Katchanovski specializes in politics and conflicts of post-Soviet states. He can comment on the current protests in Bel...

It didn’t take long for Taha Azad to apply his expertise in luciferase proteins, the enzymes that cause fireflies to glow, to novel approaches to cancer research, then to research on a vaccine and drug for COVID-19. “During my childhood in northern Iran, I used to observe fireflies and was curious about how they were emitting light,” he says.

As the popular wisdom says, music is good for the soul, and delving into the benefits of music on the body and the mind, as well as on the problems that can affect them, is precisely at the core of the mission of the University of Ottawa’s Music and Health Research Institute (MHRI).