December

• LRT work means new travel routes for Lees campus

  

  Got courses at the 200 Lees campus next year? Don’t forget to check your best alternative transport option. A section of the Transitway between Hurdman and Lees will be closed off from December 20, 2015 as work continues on the Light Rail Transit project.

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• Dean of Medicine awarded honorary doctorate

  

  The fifth-largest university in France, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, has awarded Dr. Jacques Bradwejn, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, an honorary doctorate.

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• Dashing through the snow

  

  Reindeer are important to Santa at this time of year, but one nomadic society in Mongolia relies on them all year long. Anthropology graduate student Nicolas Rasiulis spent four months living with them last year. Instead of egg nog, he drank reindeer milk tea.

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• Workshop on Indigenous energy development

  

  Indigenous engagement in energy planning and development can be a very contentious issue. To address this challenge, the Positive Energy (PE) project, an initiative of the Collaboratory on Energy Research and Policy (CERP), brought key stakeholders together at a workshop.

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• Using graphic novels to teach Middle Eastern politics

  

  “One of the chief contributions of this new generation of graphic novels to the political science classroom is their brutal and down-to-earth accounts of complex issues, including a strong tone of social critique.”

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• Launch of the Accessibility Hub website

  

  The University of Ottawa Human Rights Office has launched its Accessibility Hub website. 

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• Six questions for rookie Cabinet minister Carla Qualtrough

  

  Canada’s new Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, studied political science at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences, graduating in 1993. In an interview, Qualtrough explains the “huge responsibility” she feels towards individuals with disabilities.

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• Stocking drive brings cheer to children in need

  

  `Twas three weeks before Christmas and all through the school; uOttawa staff were doing something cool; filling up stockings with goodies, gifts and toys; in hopes the donations cheer up girls and boys.

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• Reboot for IT support

  

  Information Technology is working on a series of changes to transform the IT support model at uOttawa. 

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• Bio-hacking scientist Andrew Pelling is a new TED Fellow

  

  uOttawa professor Andrew Pelling has been selected as a TED Fellow, making him one of two Canadians to join a class of 21 change-makers from around the world who will share their ideas from the TED stage in Vancouver in February 2016.

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