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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, government research funding agencies around the world, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), enabled a rapid shift of research efforts by earmarking funding for COVID-19 research to address this unprecedented crisis. Numerous professors in the Faculty of Science saw this initiative as an opportunity to contribute to the fight again...

Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world - sometimes more so than water!

Most of the major challenges facing society require varied expertise and multiple perspectives for a viable solution to be developed. One such example is the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions to tackle climate change.

Money has been part of human history for over 3000 years. Currency has come a long way since the days when our ancestors primarily exchanged goods and services.

Job opportunities sometimes arise in the places where we least expect and can often change the trajectory of our career.

The AI + Society Initiative and the Centre for Law, Technology and Society are delighted to announce that Faculty member Dr. Teresa Scassa and Fellow Dr. B. Courtney Doagoo have contributed to Leaps and Boundaries, a new report by the Council of Canadian Academies that examines a broad range of factors related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in scientific research and disco...

Our U.S. neighbours have been lamenting the dissolution of their shared sense of reality for years. The trucker convoys that overtook Ottawa and several other Canadian cities this winter appear to have ushered in similar anxieties on this side of the border.

Two words: edible vaccines. They may seem like a pipe dream, but Department of Biology Professor Allyson MacLean and undergraduate researcher Monique Power have accomplished the first steps in bringing an edible vaccine to life … using the humble lettuce!

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts — the most efficient known — accelerating biochemical reactions in all forms of life. Due to their high catalytic efficiency and biodegradability, enzymes are used to accelerate reactions in a wide range of industrial processes such as pharmaceutical synthesis and food processing.

Archeologists and other scientists sometimes have to seriate data, i.e., arrange the data in a sequence according to prescribed criteria.