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Chemistry professor Michael Organ was awarded the prestigious Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award, for discoveries that are changing chemical manufacturing processes. An astonishing amount of chemical waste is produced in the making of everyday consumer goods, such as...

The emergence of highly toxic fentanyl analogues in the unregulated drug market has escalated Canada’s opioid overdose crisis. Until now, people have had no reliable way to identify what is in their drugs prior to using them. A new technology, being implemented by research partners from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University will change that...

Rogers v Voltage – Supreme Court hearing This is the first case about peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright to reach the Supreme Court of Canada. The issue involves the circumstances in which Internet service providers can turn over personal information (names and addresses associated with alleged Internet use) to copyright owners wh...

Measuring population trends for water birds such as cormorants, gulls, and other water birds has been limited by available census data that go back only a few decades, making it difficult to know how and why bird populations fluctuated in the past. Until now.   A team of scientists led by uOttawa have discovered new ways to track ...

Eugene Oscapella Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social SciencesHistory of 4/20 Office: 613-238-5909 Cell: 613-282-1864 E-mail:[email protected]   Jean-Philippe Chaput Pediatrics, Faculty of MedicineUse of cannabis by youth Office: 613-737-7600 ext. 3683 E-mail:[email protected]   Andra Smith School of Psychology...

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public Confidence in Energy Decision-Making: How is Canada Doing? Organized by Positive Energy (Institute for Science, Society and Policy) at the University of Ottawa this cutting-edge two day discussion will feature political, corporate, NGO, Indigenous and public sector leaders as keynote speakers and panelists. An an...

Shifts in the timing of life cycle events – known as phenology - of interacting species, such as predator versus prey and plant versus pollinator, are often listed as a consequence of climate change. New research by University of Ottawa professor Heather Kharouba shows that shifts in the relative timing between key biological even...

Ottawa researchers closer to finding out, thanks to $999,900 from the Stem Cell Network Researchers from the University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital and CHEO and are bringing discoveries made in the lab closer to human trials and therapies, thanks to four new peer-reviewed research grants from the Stem Cell Network worth $999,900, pa...

For the 2018-2019 academic year, students at the University of Ottawa will be able to sign up for two courses in Cannabis Law, a first in Canada. Courses will be offered in English and French. “We are proud to be the first Canadian law school to offer courses in this cutting edge area of law and public policy,” declared uOttawa Dean o...

University of Ottawa researchers have received a $2.2 million boost from the Government of Canada to help fund the specialized tools and laboratories that are needed to break new ground in areas such as cancer therapies, wastewater treatment, stroke recovery, and fake news, to keep Canada at the forefront of innovation. The Honourable ...