As we mentioned last week, we have chosen to highlight International Women’s Day for a second week because of the many events and initiatives taking place in early March this year.
As we mentioned last week, we have chosen to highlight International Women’s Day for a second week because of the many events and initiatives taking place in early March this year.
March 8, 2022, marks International Women's Day, and since our early March publications fall before and after this day, we will be marking it twice rather than once. Faculties and services celebrate this day in different ways. We will be sharing a small selection of stories of remarkable women.
March 8, 2022, marks International Women's Day, and since our early March publications fall before and after this day, we will be marking it twice rather than once. Faculties and services celebrate this day in different ways. We will be sharing a small selection of stories of remarkable women.
It’s time for fairness and consistency in welcoming excellence from Africa. Reflections by Sanni Yaya, Vice-President, International and Francophonie, University of Ottawa.
It’s time for fairness and consistency in welcoming excellence from Africa. Reflections by Sanni Yaya, Vice-President, International and Francophonie, University of Ottawa.
Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing her legal studies.
Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing h...
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nathan Hall learned early on that a personal sense of identity only goes so far when people make assumptions based on how you look or your family’s background. Hall’s father immigrated to Canada from Jamaica; his mother was born in the Maritimes and is of Afro Nova Scotian and Guyanese descent. Graduating from uOttawa with a degree in sociology, questions of belonging...
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nathan Hall learned early on that a personal sense of identity only goes so far when people make assumptions based on how you look or your family’s background. Hall’s father immigrated to Canada from Jamaica; his mother was born in the Maritimes and is of Afro Nova Scot...
As a teacher to first-grade students, Hoda Ahmed, BEd '20, fields a lot of curious questions prompted by her being both visibly Black and Muslim. In addition to teaching, our second trailblazer is a master’s student in uOttawa’s Faculty of Education. She also holds a pair of bachelor’s degrees from uOttawa: one in linguistics, the other in education.
As a teacher to first-grade students, Hoda Ahmed, BEd '20, fields a lot of curious questions prompted by her being both visibly Black and Muslim. In addition to teaching, our second trailblazer is a master’s student in uOttawa’s Faculty of Education. She also holds a pair of bachelor’s degrees ...
Two themes unite our first trailblazer’s academic career and extracurricular efforts: a love of chemistry and the desire to see more women of colour represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Now doing postdoctoral research in Toronto, two-time uOttawa alumni Dr. Ampaw is getting closer to her dream of leading a research group, becoming a professor, and being a role m...
Two themes unite our first trailblazer’s academic career and extracurricular efforts: a love of chemistry and the desire to see more women of colour represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Now doing postdoctoral research in Toronto, two-time uOttawa alumni Dr. Ampaw ...
This Black History Month, we’ve teamed up with Ridley-Padmore and Ndema-Moussa to create new portraits and poems in honour of four Black uOttawa alumni who have left a significant mark on the University.
This Black History Month, we’ve teamed up with Ridley-Padmore and Ndema-Moussa to create new portraits and poems in honour of four Black uOttawa alumni who have left a significant mark on the University.
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa has partnered with Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey to collaborate on research projects to help resolve global issues such as sustainability and climate change.
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa has partnered with Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey to collaborate on research projects to help resolve global issues such as sustainability and climate change.
Can large-scale geoengineering be a solution to global warming? Can artificial intelligence (AI) control such technologies? What could be the impact on our society, on wealth and power, on communities?
Can large-scale geoengineering be a solution to global warming? Can artificial intelligence (AI) control such technologies? What could be the impact on our society, on wealth and power, on communities?