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  Carolyn Fischer, one of the world’s leading environmental economists, is coming back to her birth country from the United States and Europe to hold the Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy at the University of Ottawa. Fischer is renowned for the unusual breadth and depth of her expertise in creat...

The University of Ottawa invites members of the media to discover the creativity and ingenuity of the next generation of inventors, designers, entrepreneurs and makers at Design Day on Thursday, March 29. Students from the Faculty of Engineering will showcase prototypes and present solutions to real world problems for real clients. WHAT: uOt...

The University of Ottawa will reduce tuition fees for international PhD candidates to attract the best doctoral candidates from around the world. As of September 1, 2018, international PhD candidates at uOttawa will pay tuition fees at the same rate as those paid by Canadian PhD candidates. The University wants to ensure that all ...

Preterm birth is a leading cause of death among children under the age of five. Knowing how often babies are born preterm is essential for developing and evaluating health programs and policies. However, many low-resource countries do not have reliable data on this issue. Dr. Kumanan Wilson and Dr. Steven Hawken are pioneering a soluti...

Celeste Digiovanni is a Masters of Sociology student at the University of Ottawa. On the way to her first class, she decided to stop and buy a bottle of water. She discovered that bottled water was banned on campus many years ago and wanted to understand why. In doing her research, Celeste learned of the negative environmental, economic and ethi...

Fake news, false or misleading headlines on social media are become an international trend. A new research from the University of Ottawa and University of Oxford recently concluded that social media and the Internet were not responsible for creating ‘’ echo chambers’’.  Interested in learning more? Come and meet the experts. Event...

It has been the subject of numerous Hollywood movies, and is often referred to as “the big one” — the potentially massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that will, one day, affect North America’s west coast. But how does one measure the potential impact of an earthquake? In a new study published in the March 7 edition ...

Today, as we celebrate International Women’s day, we wanted to reflect on what it meant to be a woman in 2018. We feel privileged to hold a professorship in a Canadian university, and today, we are reminded that this privilege cannot be taken for granted. We are privileged because historically, women could never aspire to such a positi...

Could the LRT help reduce greenhouse effect? A rising trend in some countries, urban rail transit systems are an alternative to freight transport through cities. Freight transit using existing urban railways could now be possible in Canada with some effort, according to Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa Professor...

While Canada’s health care legacy boasts a publicly-funded universal system and a strong influence on global health, disparities between its indigenous and non-indigenous populations still exist and the country’s contributions to overseas aid is at historic lows, says a new report released today by the Lancet, a prominent peer-reviewed general me...