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Claudia Bouliane firmly believes in the power of literature to help us understand our shared reality and experience. However, the Département de français associate professor noticed something odd in Montreal. While the city is often presented as a multicultural, welcoming space for immigrants, it seems that these positive aspects doesn’t come through in Montreal’s literature.

Professor Florian Grandena, from the Department of Communication, is organizing a symposium during the upcoming Acfas conference.

Inspired by the global movement to champion the human rights of girls and women by advocating for the recognition of “gender apartheid” as a crime against humanity, a number of Afghan-Canadian and Iranian-Canadian activists and advocates visited Ottawa to meet with Canadian Parliamentarians, Government officials and others.

The complex and very diverse world of fungi is often referred to as the fifth kingdom of organisms. It includes various yeasts, moulds and mushrooms. Today, a team of scientists from the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) has uncovered the genetic secrets of a mysterious fungi, revealing the presence of two distinct nuclear populations within them, each playing distinct roles in how they interact with...

Improving older adults’ understanding of emojis use could help combat ageism, reduce loneliness, according to new study.

Dr. Katey Rayner is one of our research community’s dynamic leaders.

uOBMRI’s Dr. Mireille Khacho has established herself as an emerging international leader in neuromuscular research, most recently being awarded the Early Career Biomedical Researcher of the Year Award.

Preparations for the 91st annual ACFAS conference are well under way at the University of Ottawa, which is hosting the event from May 13 to 17 2024. The Honourable Michelle O’Bonsawin, the first Indigenous Supreme Court of Canada justice, will be serving as honorary president of the event, whose theme is knowledge mobilization in French.

More than ever, access to health care in French is a challenge for francophone minorities in Canada. Less than 1% of health-care professionals regularly speak French as part of their practice, according to a 2021 Statistics Canada study on language use in health care. Many francophones must therefore use their English to access health care.

Cameron Smith, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, recalls a childhood in Europe immersed in a linguistic “hat trick” of English, French and German. This early introduction to multiple languages, he says, evolved into a career teaching French as a second language (FSL) and fuelled a curiosity about teachers’ experiences using devices in the classroom.