All news

In 2024, the University of Ottawa continued to make its mark as a leader in research and innovation. Through its investments, state-of-the-art infrastructure and strategic partnerships, the University worked to improve the well-being of local and global communities.

Daniel Rück, an associate professor in the Department of History, wasn’t planning on making an audio version of his award-winning book, The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada (UBC Press, 2021). An examination of Canada’s legal and environmental colonial relationship with one First Nation, the book chronicles how Canadian governments over tim...

Partners will work together on research, training and outreach for major projects, such as electricity generation and transmission, pipelines, LNG, etc.

An interview with Jay Odjick, uOttawa English Department’s first Indigenous Writer-in-Residence.

Research project shows how early learning about reconciliation inspires students to join social justice movements in Canada.

Helping students understand the ongoing impacts of colonialism and the goals of reconciliation is essential. However, many teachers feel unprepared for difficult classroom conversations. For alumna Lisa Howell (PhD ’22), learning directly from and alongside First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples should be the starting point for all educators.

Renewed partnership with BMO will help uOttawa change lives and build healthier communities through innovative research and learning in the health sciences.

Professor Tricia McGuire-Adams of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education has received $511,380 in funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to create a lab that will conduct innovative research on the knowledge and well-being of Indigenous peoples.

Friday, September 30th, 2022, marks the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, created in response to Action 80 of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Actions.

The University of Ottawa is proud to appoint First Nations activist Claudette Commanda as the first Indigenous leader to be named Chancellor in the university’s 174-year history.