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Gilles Comeau teaches piano to a young boy in the Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory.
Research

The key to better learning

If there were an award for the coolest lab on campus, uOttawa’s Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts would be a top contender.
If there were an award for the coolest lab on campus, uOttawa’s Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts would be a top contender.
Law student Assma Basalamah, wearing a hijab, stands in a room with photographs on a wall behind her.
Refugee Hub

Hands-on help for refugees

Assma Basalamah remembers happier summers visiting her aunt and grandmother in Duoma, Syria. She recalls walking through the streets and visiting local vendors. Today, those streets are unrecognizable. Since the civil war ravaging that country broke out, Basalamah, 24, has spent long hours waiting for sporadic news via WhatsApp or Facebook about her family’s safety and whereabouts as they endured ...
Assma Basalamah remembers happier summers visiting her aunt and grandmother in Duoma, Syria. She recalls walking through the streets and visiting local vendors. Today, those streets are unrecognizable. Since the civil war ravaging that country broke out, Basalamah, 24, has spent long hours waiting f...
Jeremy Kerr and a student looking into a net in a field.
Faculty of Science

Butterflies to save the world

As a uOttawa student who graduated with a BSc in biology in 1993, Jeremy Kerr says he wanted to save the world. Today, as a uOttawa biology professor and University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation Biology, he has stayed true to that youthful idealism.
As a uOttawa student who graduated with a BSc in biology in 1993, Jeremy Kerr says he wanted to save the world. Today, as a uOttawa biology professor and University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation Biology, he has stayed true to that youthful idealism.
Professor Jennifer Bond and four other people seated at a table during a discussion.
Refugee Hub

Exporting a creative way of welcoming refugees

Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis highlighted the uniqueness of Canada’s private sponsorship program and inspired other countries to replicate the model.
Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis highlighted the uniqueness of Canada’s private sponsorship program and inspired other countries to replicate the model.
In an operating room, a surgeon is performing surgery on a patient.
Brain and Mind Research Institute

Investigating the brain’s capacity for repair

The patient, awake on the operating room table, is wearing 3D goggles that look like they belong in an arcade.
The patient, awake on the operating room table, is wearing 3D goggles that look like they belong in an arcade.
Lori Beaman stands beside the Rideau Canal, with a bridge and buildings in the background.
Religious Studies

Building deep equality, one story at a time

Professor Lori Beaman is on a campaign to move the discussion of diversity away from the concepts of tolerance and accommodation, terms that make equality — and a fair and just society — a more distant prospect, she believes.
Professor Lori Beaman is on a campaign to move the discussion of diversity away from the concepts of tolerance and accommodation, terms that make equality — and a fair and just society — a more distant prospect, she believes.
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.