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On June 3, 2024, the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy released a groundbreaking report, “Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of International Law and Paths to Accountability.” The 80,000-word publication is the first to directly link the two-year conflict in Tigray to the Genocide Convention and calls for international action.

In Canada, rates of violent crime have returned to levels of 20 years ago and the homicide rate is second only to the United States and rising. Rates of homicide for Indigenous peoples are six times those of non-Indigenous people. Gender based and sexual violence is at epidemic levels. Our main response has been increased expenditures on policing – now close to $20 billion – and punitive legal ref...

Most people only think about their metabolism when their pants get too tight, blaming weight gain on their metabolism slowing down.

Electrical and computer engineering PhD student Mohammad Hossein Amini is conducting research to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous driving systems.

As the government reflects on the use of deployment of AI in the federal public service, the President of the Treasury Board of Canada invited two professors from the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Dr. Teresa Scassa, to join a critical conversation to design Canada’s AI strategy for the public sector.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is looking back at its participation in the 91st edition of the annual ACFAS Congress. Our researchers organized, moderated and took part in the various colloquia of the Congress, held on our campus from May 13 to 17, 2024.Vincent Mirza, Director of the Research Center on the Future of Cities, and his team ...

After almost ten years of negotiation, a new Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge was born at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Dr. Chidi Oguamanam, an expert from the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society, played a pivotal role in this process.

The call to knowledge mobilization in French was heard at the 91st annual ACFAS conference, which brought together some 6,000 researchers and more than 250 volunteers. Research findings presented at the 200 symposiums garnered media attention throughout the week. The giant OTTAWA letters in the Byward Market even sported the ACFAS colours!

The uOBMRI’s Dr. Kym Boycott and fellow CHEO researchers developed the world’s first algorithm to scan electronic health records and identify children and youth who have a higher chance of having a rare genetic disorder.

“We remain very hopeful that this investigational therapy can have a transformative impact on the health of patients living with this ultra-rare, severe muscular dystrophy in the years ahead.” Dr. Hans Lochmüller, lead investigator of REACH CDM Clinical Study & senior scientist at CHEO; Professor, Faculty of Medicine, uOttawa; uOBMRI