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How to cope with heat waves?
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How to cope with heat waves?
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Solar Cycles and Canadian Climate: What You Need to Know
Shifting Skies, Solar Ties

Powering your phone with a laser
uOttawa researchers demonstrate new laser power converters to transmit power to further, remote destinations.

Intact Financial Corporation partners with Telfer to support research in workpl…
Today, Intact Financial Corporation, Intact Canada CEO Louis Gagnon and the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa announced a $2 mil…

uOttawa announces tuition waiver for Algonquin Anishinàbeg Nation students
As part of its ongoing Indigenization efforts, the University of Ottawa announces a full tuition waiver for Indigenous students from the Algonquin Ani…

Paul Corkum awarded the American Physical Society’s 2025 APS Medal for Exceptio…
Professor Paul Corkum, a physics researcher at the University of Ottawa best known for his pioneering contributions to attosecond science, has been aw…
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Oct 3
Celebrating 25 years of technology law, ethics and policy
Join us to celebrate 25 years of technology law, ethics, and policy at the University of Ottawa and the 15th anniversary of the Centre for Law, Techno…

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Celebrating a Canadian Milestone: The Supreme Court of Canada at 150
Leading legal minds from across the country will gather at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law for a landmark academic conference: The Supreme C…

May 8
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May 10
CCERBAL 2025 Conference: Bilingualism and multilingualism
The focus of the CCERBAL 2025 Conference will be on conceptual, empirical, and practice-based contributions on language and technology, Indigenous lan…

The Conversation
The anatomy of a flash flood: Why the Texas flood was so deadly
Understanding the anatomy of this flash flood, and unravelling the complex interplay of meteorological, geomorphological and hydrological forces, forms the foundation for a comprehensive assessment of what happened, writes Hossein Bonakdari.

The Conversation
The oldest rocks on Earth are more than four billion years old
Dating back more than four billion years, these rocks provide a rare and invaluable glimpse into the origins of our planet, writes Jonathan O'Neil.

The Conversation
Agreement between Hydro-Québec and the Innu is a must for the development of th…
The agreement with the Unamen Shipu Innu comes at a time when the Québec government is seeking to develop its battery industry by assessing the potential for critical and strategic minerals and hydroelectricity on their territory and on Québec’s Lower North Shore, writes Jean-Sol Goulet-Poulin.