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We’re celebrating excellence in the Faculty of Science class of 2026! Meet our outstanding valedictorians, Thalia Lamberti and Simon Yang.

What if pursuing a science degree didn’t mean leaving your artistic passions behind? Organized by undergraduate students Breana Sanders and Julia Esber, three murals in the Biosciences building showcase science students’ artistic talent while promoting environmental sustainability.

EcoSafeSense began as a research question: how would you monitor pollutants in real time to help individuals and cities make informed decisions that benefit both community health and the environment.

How do we know where we are or how to get from one place to another, even if we’ve never taken that exact route before? Remarkably, mice seem to navigate in a similar way to us. And thanks to new research by professors Leonard Maler and André Longtin, we now have solid evidence that they build mental maps of their surroundings and use these to find shortcuts.

On March 3, 2025, the Faculty of Science opened its doors to nearly 100 middle school students from St-Laurent Academy for a special event: Women in Science Day. Organized by Professor Paul Mayer from the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, the initiative gave young learners an inspiring opportunity to engage with women scientists at different stages of their academic and profession...

Vanessa Martinez is uncovering hidden risks in places many wouldn’t expect to find them — beauty salons. Through her master’s research, which earned her the prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship, she investigated how professional beauty workers could be exposed to harmful chemicals through their occupational use of products like hair dye, nail polish and makeup. Her work aims to provide a bette...

When we think of medicine, we often picture pills and prescriptions. But what if some of the most powerful healing compounds come from the plants around us?

Today, Nicolas Couture is a research scientist at Ciena, developing next-generation technology to make global communications faster and more reliable. However, his journey began at uOttawa, where a passion for physics and pioneering work with terahertz spectroscopy earned him some of Canada’s most prestigious research honours, including a graduate scholarship and the Governor General’s Academic Go...

When John Boby Mesadieu began his MSc in mathematics and statistics at uOttawa, he brought with him more than just a love for numbers. With an undergraduate degree in statistics from Haiti’s Centre de Techniques de Planification et d’Économie Appliquée and a deep interest in artificial intelligence, he came prepared to push boundaries. And that’s exactly what he did.

For Professor Jules Blais, understanding the future of our ecosystems begins with looking deep into the past, layer by layer, sediment by sediment.