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Last September 2020, the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI) launched a project with funding from Canadian Heritage, “Learning through community involvement in the service of future teachers in French-language minority schools (EFMM) and French as a second language (FSL).” Its goal is to provide educational support for FSL classes, particularly online classes, in public schools du...

Dr. Marceline Côté and her team have discovered a druggable pathway the virus uses to trick its way into our organs It was once thought that Ebola and related filoviruses were more or less contained to Central Africa. After a West African outbreak and the discovery of Reston ebolavirus in the Philippines, cuevavirus in Spain and various bat filo...

The University of Ottawa made the following statement of support for Professor Jan Grabowski:   The University of Ottawa offers its unwavering support to Professor Jan Grabowski (Department of History, Faculty of Arts) whose widely respected Holocaust research has led to his unjust conviction this week in a Polish Court for defamation ...

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section is looking to move the discipline beyond the analog age with an ambitious, Canadian first video project to benefit academics and the legal community while capturing the wider public.Jurivision.ca, a digital platform created at uOttawa in collaboration with the Canadian govern...

  Members of the media may directly contact the following expert: Mariam Humayun (English only) Assistant Professor of Marketing, Telfer School of Management [email protected] “This is a natural fit for Elon Musk and the techno-utopianism that he embodies as he caters to the target market for his own brands, be it Tes...

Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts – the organism with which they live in symbiosis – thereby providing a better understanding of their growth.

The Ottawa Hospital saw a decrease in emergency department admissions for sexual assault and domestic violence in the early days of COVID-19, according to a study published in BMC Medicine. “We were concerned about the rising risk of violence during the lockdown, and wanted to investigate how the pandemic was affecting...

A made-in-Ottawa tool can help emergency physicians predict which patients with mini-strokes are at greatest risk of having a major stroke within the week, according to a study published in The BMJ.  “Mini-strokes can be a warning that a larger stroke is coming,” said Dr. Jeffrey Perry, emergency physician and senior scientist at ...

Here are some of the activities and events taking place at the University of Ottawa to celebrate Black History Month: Tuesday, February 2 Race: A Year in Review with Dr. Marie-Carène Pierre René, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Webinar registration by Zoom Tuesday, February 9 Celebrating Blackness in Literature with Mante...

A series of events not to be missed during Black History Month