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You can now register for the CCERBAL 2023 Conference! The program is shaping up to be very promising. We’ve also added two special free pre-conference events, on the afternoon of May 3. They will address plurilingualisms in migration and internationalization as well as engagement with university immersion in English and French

Motivated by curiosity and the chance to test their theories in space, gifted science students from a local school joined with the University of Ottawa to answer an important question: Do EpiPens work in space? The answer turned into a ground-breaking discovery.

CoG Director of Research and Professor André Lecours has published a new book on federalism in collaboration with his colleagues.

When Professor Ewurabena Simpson was in medical school, two supervisors commented on the fact that she was quiet. “Do you think it’s because you’re the only woman in the group?” asked one, a man. “Perhaps you should go into a field that’s less stressful,” said the other, a woman. And she remembers thinking, “Why is being quiet a bad thing?”

I had the good fortune of holding the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario for ten years, from 2011 to 2021. The landscape for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) certainly changed a lot over those ten years and even more in the past few years. As funding agencies and organizations, including academic ones, grapple with n...

Arts Without Borders scholarships are a testament to the Faculty of Arts’ commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Through these scholarships, two up and coming researchers are pursuing their research at the University of Ottawa. We met one of them, Janaína Nazzari Gomes.

Researchers from the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and affiliated institutes have attracted more than $22 million in the latest funding allocations from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

CIPS Director Rita Abrahamsen & Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellow Barbra Chimhandamba have released a new Policy Report that looks at Canada - Africa relations as Canada looks to develop its first Africa engagement strategy.

The Centre on Governance is pleased to present a new educational video series called The Public Governance Diaries.

Exploration and innovation thrive when diversity is a feature of our research ecosystem. During Black History Month, we invite you to listen to three uOttawa professors, who are leading research in different fields, to hear about their experiences as Black academics. Learn from them in this short video series.