All news

Climate change is a daunting policy challenge, where decision-makers must respond to a high-uncertainty and high-risk problem in an environment featuring a diverse multitude of stakeholders and deep-seated ideological controversy. In this situation, making policy decisions based on the best available science is often considered a desirable objective.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce the publication with the University of Ottawa Press of The Future of Open Data, a new edited collection edited by CLTS Faculty Member Dr. Teresa Scassa and Pamela Robinson.

In recent international comparisons, Canada’s health care system has ranked poorly relative to other high-income countries. Longstanding issues like extended wait times for access to specialty care have been compounded by two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to cause burnout amongst health care professionals. Politicians, as a result, are under increasing pressure to turn to private...

The University of Ottawa, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Scholars at Risk (SAR) uOttawa Committee are delighted to welcome two new Visiting Researchers!

Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) launched a special call of its Alliance Grants program, the NSERC Alliance COVID-19 grants, to stimulate collaborations between academic researchers and the public and not-for-profit sectors, and industry, to address pandemic-related research and technical challenges.

Since the initial launch of the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration Stream program in 2018, researchers in the Faculty of Science have seen considerable success in this extremely competitive grant competition. Proposing innovative, interdisciplinary and high-risk/high-reward projects, two of our faculty members led applications that were successful in the Fall 2020 competition.

Laboratory-based research is crucial to better understand our environment, develop therapies for disease and improve our overall quality of life. However, experimental research is very cost-intensive when we consider the price of state-of-the art research equipment.

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.