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Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centres
Summary • Tapping into brain-like computing hardware provides a path forward for semiconductor chip manufacturing. • Deploying neuromorphic circuits that physically mimic the human brain's processing could provide solution to alleviating electric and environmental burden of AI data centres.
New drug-delivery method offers promise in fight against neurodegenerative diseases
Summary • Neurodegenerative diseases impair cell signalling, with antibodies becoming lost in cell signalling pathways. • New process allows body’s cells to reach the brain and deliver the necessary antibodies. • Process taps into cells natural recycling mechanism of autophagy to delete useless hitchhiking cells to help healthy ones reach their destination.
Research powered by partnership: 16 funded projects tackling community priorities
From idea to action: Nika Gregorin is building new pathways for women in sport
PhD Student Mohammad Muaz Jalil Explores a New Vision for International Development
Mini Medical School – Fall 2026 series
Mini Medical School is an innovative and entertaining series of lectures on medicine and health that are 'just like going to medical school' (but with…
Les mots pour habiter le monde : rencontre avec Jean d’Amérique (in French)
Join us for Les mots pour habiter le monde, with Jean d’Amérique, Haitian poet, playwright and novelist, October 30, 2026, at the University of Ottawa…
Guardrails: Design Principles for Regulating AI
The University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society presents a conversation with Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Technical Univer…