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Planned Giving

Charitable giving and life insurance

Read a financial planner’s advice on the various ways to donate an insurance policy to a charitable organization.
Read a financial planner’s advice on the various ways to donate an insurance policy to a charitable organization.
Students having a discussion in the hallway.
Merit Scholarships

Helping Students

Access to post-secondary education can and should be the great equalizer for Canada, and nowhere is this more evident than at the University of Ottawa. Students who are the first in their families to attend university make up a significant portion of our graduating classes, and we boast the highest enrolment of aboriginal students among all Ontario universities.
Access to post-secondary education can and should be the great equalizer for Canada, and nowhere is this more evident than at the University of Ottawa. Students who are the first in their families to attend university make up a significant portion of our graduating classes, and we boast the highest ...
Lee Silverstone presents his invention to one of his mentors, Catherine Geci of uOttawa’s Startup Garage.
Entrepreneurship Hub

Pumping up a new business

Alumnus and entrepreneur Lee Silverstone loves the gym. But he saw an opportunity to make his workout even better by bringing his handwritten exercise checklist into the digital age.
Alumnus and entrepreneur Lee Silverstone loves the gym. But he saw an opportunity to make his workout even better by bringing his handwritten exercise checklist into the digital age.
Kathleen Kemp and Ajmal Sataar ready to leave for Iqaluit aboard a First Air plane.
Enactus

Seeking solutions to social ills

Where others look away from tough social problems, former Telfer School of Management students Kathleen Kemp and Ajmal Sataar went great distances to seek solutions. 
Where others look away from tough social problems, former Telfer School of Management students Kathleen Kemp and Ajmal Sataar went great distances to seek solutions. 
A group of students sitting outdoors near the Francophonie Wall having a discussion
Research

History as Story

“One of the reasons people don’t do this kind of qualitative research is it takes so much time to analyze the data, and it takes money to do that. This is where the funding comes in.” – Raphaël Gani, history of education doctoral studenté.
“One of the reasons people don’t do this kind of qualitative research is it takes so much time to analyze the data, and it takes money to do that. This is where the funding comes in.” – Raphaël Gani, history of education doctoral studenté.
Wearing a yellow hard hat, Murat Saatcioglu examines a shattered window.
Faculty of Engineering

Bracing for the quake

From the window of his sixth-floor office, civil engineering professor Murat Saatcioglu looks over the downtown Ottawa cityscape, a mosaic of century-old brick houses, 1960s-era office buildings, modern glass-and-steel towers and, in the distance, the stately Gothic-revival architecture of the Parliament Buildings.
From the window of his sixth-floor office, civil engineering professor Murat Saatcioglu looks over the downtown Ottawa cityscape, a mosaic of century-old brick houses, 1960s-era office buildings, modern glass-and-steel towers and, in the distance, the stately Gothic-revival architecture of the Parli...
Architectural rendering of the future STEM complex
STEM

A Game-Changing Discovery District

The striking new STEM building is scheduled to open in 2018. It will bring students and researchers from the faculties of Science and Engineering under one roof, together with players who can help commercialize promising new technology.
The striking new STEM building is scheduled to open in 2018. It will bring students and researchers from the faculties of Science and Engineering under one roof, together with players who can help commercialize promising new technology.
Student looking down at an experiment.
Research

Spinal Cord Injuries

“It’s as important to address the work in implementation as it is to develop the knowledge in the first place, because if you don’t get it implemented…people aren’t going to benefit from it.” – Bill Barrable, CEO, Rick Hansen Institute.
“It’s as important to address the work in implementation as it is to develop the knowledge in the first place, because if you don’t get it implemented…people aren’t going to benefit from it.” – Bill Barrable, CEO, Rick Hansen Institute.
Alexander Helal draws a prosthesis.
Faculty of Engineering

Better limbs, better lives

Alexander Helal has a dream: to help children who need prosthetic devices live more able lives.
Alexander Helal has a dream: to help children who need prosthetic devices live more able lives.
David Petrasek
Memorial Fund

The David Petrasek Legacy Fund

Over the course of an impressive career spanning four decades, based in Ottawa, Geneva and London, David Petrasek worked for Amnesty International, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the International Council for Human Rights Policy and Open Global Human Rights and was an instructor in the part-time LLM program at the University of Oxford...
Over the course of an impressive career spanning four decades, based in Ottawa, Geneva and London, David Petrasek worked for Amnesty International, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the International Council for Human Rights Policy and Ope...