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We’d like to celebrate Jacky Liang’s excellent work and commitment to keeping his laboratory safe, compliant and well organized. His focus on health and safety is a key part of how he works, and it supports the well-being of everyone in his lab.Jacky consistently maintains high standards by ensuring personal protective equipment is worn, emergency equi...

Apple’s HomeView is set to challenge the Amazon Echo and the Google Nest in the smart-home hub market. When millions of devices stream personal data to a centralized cloud for AI processing, that cloud database becomes a prime target for hackers as the recent large-scale cyberattacks on major food retailers in France remind us. What impact will the growing Internet of Things and smart automation h...

Reducing barriers, increasing support important for diverse, healthy physician workforce in Canada.

Academic expertise to contextualize current events: World Mental Health Day 2026

Demographic trends can no longer be considered separately from the planetary boundaries of a world facing environmental crises, argue a group of international experts in a rebuttal to pronatalist arguments gaining political traction worldwide.

The Parti Québecois has returned to power for the first time since 2012 following its election victory. What does the minority mandate signify to Quebec and Canada's political landscape, and what could it mean for the prospect of a separatist referendum?

A summer school for coming together, reflecting collectively, and putting First Peoples' self-determination into practice For six days, some sixty participants and approximately fifteen invited guests from several Indigenous Peoples gathered on unceded Anishinaabe territory for a grounded university experience that sought to do more than talk about self-determination: it sought to put it i...

Roadsides may not look like wildlife habitat, but a few simple changes to how they are maintained could turn them into much better places for pollinators. A new uOttawa-led study found that reducing mowing and herbicide use along rural roadsides led to a 45 percent jump in pollinator numbers and a 23 percent increase in the number of species found there.

The University of Ottawa is proud to participate in the French public speaking competition "Délie ta langue !" 2027, and we invite you to take part!

Do you enjoy debating, defending your ideas, and taking on intellectual challenges? Would you like to represent your university on the international stage? Join the University of Ottawa’s French debate team and proudly represent uOttawa at the prestigious Interuniversity French-Language Debate Competition in The Hague 2027, organized by the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and the Corax F...