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“We are privileged to welcome five distinguished colleagues to our Faculty, each embodying the excellence and breadth of contemporary education through their rich academic backgrounds,” says Francis Bangou, dean of the Faculty of Education.

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa were able to reverse certain behavioural symptoms in a mouse model of autism by fixing a problem in the brain blood vessels. Their findings, published in Neuron, present a promising new treatment target for these symptoms.

Cooling a home overnight may not be enough to protect older adults from the physiological effects of repeated daytime indoor overheating during a multi-day heatwave, according to new research from the University of Ottawa.

Introduced in 2020, the Indigenous Action Plan guides efforts to advance reconciliation in teaching and research, student support, campus spaces, institutional processes and relationships with Indigenous communities. As the first year of the plan’s second edition comes to a close, this is a moment to reflect on the progress made over six years and the work that remains.

Celebrate Open Access Week from October 19 to October 25, 2026, and discover how the uOttawa Library supports open publishing and makes scholarly knowledge more accessible to all.

To ensure the safety of our community on Panda Day, please note that access to some buildings on main campus will be restricted this Sunday, October 4.

Why do some people recover more easily from adversity than others? According to Xiangfei Meng, professor at the uOttawa Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, resilience is a dynamic process of adapting well when facing adversity, trauma, threats or major stressful events.

The University of Ottawa Library is proud to launch the call for proposals for the Subvention pour les ressources éducatives libres (REL) en français.

Forty years after a landmark international declaration reshaped how the world thinks about health, researchers and policymakers will return to Ottawa to ask what the Ottawa Charter can teach us about the challenges ahead.

Academic expertise to contextualize current events: The AI-Related Plagiarism Crisis in Literature