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Le numéro 59 de FA vient de paraître. Il comporte un dossier sur un corpus romanesque acadien historiquement négligé par la critique littéraire.Ce numéro comporte un dossier sur des romans moins connus, non canoniques, produits en Acadie. Dans le premier article du dossier, François Ouellet offre une étude de L’ennemi que je connais (1994) de Martin Pî...

In the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, when viral DNA analysis and patient sample collection were at the forefront of the effort, two questions took shape: How can we better detect subtle genetic edits? And how can those answers serve both researchers and patients? These shared questions initiated a collaboration between DNA Genotek and Professor Russell’s research team at uOttawa’s Genome E...

Batteries running for decades without recharging: Dream or near-future reality?

An inhaled COVID-19 vaccine developed through the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub (CP2H) — a joint initiative led by the University of Ottawa, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and McMaster University — safely generates immune responses associated with protection in the lungs, according to recent clinical trial data.

As cutting-edge technologies reshape financial markets, Canadian households stand to benefit from more accessible, lower-cost, and higher-quality financial services. Yet these same innovations also bring new and often unpredictable risks.

The Faculty of Arts is pleased to announce that 11 of our researchers were awarded SSHRC Insight grants in the 2024 competition, for a stellar success rate of 47.8%! Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

The University of Ottawa is proud and thrilled to receive a significant investment from the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Wet Labs Program (OWLP). This funding will support the fit-up and equipping of specialized wet lab space at the Advanced Medical Research Centre (AMRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed to drive health research, innovation and commercialization.

The Faculty of Arts is pleased to announce that five of our researchers were awarded SSHRC Insight Development Grants in the 2025 competition, for a resounding success rate of 71.4%! Congratulations to this year’s recipients:

You read that right. University of Ottawa Professor Stacey Smith? holds a Guinness World Record for co-authoring the first peer-reviewed mathematical model of how to survive a zombie outbreak, entitled Mathematical Modelling of Zombies. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about her latest project.

The moment Sarah Hobson (MA '25) picked up the textbook in her high school psychology course, she had a feeling her career path would somehow lead to helping others. From there, she says it was a natural progression to completing a bachelor’s and a master’s in the field.