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Mylan Allen’s journey to graduation from OLBI’s Second Language Teaching program (with a specialization in teaching French and a minor in Spanish) is a tale of determination, resilience and drive. It’s also a testament to how a bilingual environment fosters creativity, motivates further learning and promotes an open-minded perspective on the world and its many cultures and languages.

Asserting culture and identity through language

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the frustrations of how poor connectivity in a home office can wreak on online meetings. The ramifications of a weak connection in a small-office and home-office (or SOHO) does not end there: imagine the consequences for a small software development shop failing to deploy time-sensitive software for its clients, ...

Survey results from 216 people who gave birth at The Ottawa Hospital between March and June 2020 showed that 52 (24 percent) experienced controlling or abusive behaviour from their partners during their perinatal period (one year pre-pregnancy, during pregnancy, and one year after birth) This is the first study to look at intimate partn...

A Convocation is the official ceremony at which one is conferred their degree by their university’s Chancellor in front of their peers. It is imbued with time-old traditions, pomp, and circumstance to reflect the accomplishments made by the graduating class but throw in a global pandemic and one must adapt to the times. And so, we have...

Canada is currently facing a significant shortage of French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers. While this problem is complex and multifaceted, a lack of qualified teachers and a high rate of teacher turnover are largely to blame.To work towards better understanding and potentially solving this problem, the Canadian Association of Second Lan...

2020 and 2021 Alumni Association Awards of Excellence: The winners Twelve recipients were honoured Thursday night at a virtual ceremony for the University of Ottawa Alumni Association's 2020 and 2021 Awards of Excellence. The 2020 recipients include The Ottawa Hospital President and CEO, Dr. John Jack Kitts (Faculty of Medicine and Te...

uOttawa calls on G7 leaders to prioritize the interests of future generations and work to reduce the effects of climate change Today marks the start of the 47th G7 Summit in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The summit agenda will be dominated by economic stimulus measures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, access to vaccines for resi...

The concept of “spaceplate” is a new avenue for manipulating light that could lead to paper thin cameras, telescopes

  In response to the heinous and cowardly murder of four members of a Muslim family yesterday in London, Ontario, the University of Ottawa extends its profound sympathies and condolences to the extended family of the victims and denounces in the strongest terms the racist ideology that fuelled this incident – and others like it – ...