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Professor Briand brings a transformative vision that will shape how software systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are designed, tested, and trusted in real-world environments.

We are thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 BHI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awardees! This spring, we successfully funded 8 outstanding trainees dedicated to advancing brain-heart research. Below is the list of awardees along with their affiliations and project titles. Congratulations!

To be stateless is to have no citizenship in any country — no formal legal bond to a state. This lack of recognition can shape nearly every aspect of daily life, from accessing services to asserting basic rights. Without documentation or status, people may face barriers in education, health care and housing.

Though Sarra Magdouli and Nicole Racine conduct research involving different disciplines, both trace their paths back to lived experience, moments outside of academia that revealed urgent, practical problems in need of better answers.

Three uOttawa researchers are pushing the boundaries of health innovation with bold, interdisciplinary projects supported by the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

A leading expert in AI and legal ethics, Dr. Amy Salyzyn’s sustained commitment to knowledge mobilization has been recognized with the 2026 Award for Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization from the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section.

In recognition of an indelible mark made on Canadian innovation and business law in just a few years, Dr. Douglas Sarro has been bestowed the 2026 Emerging Researcher Award from the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section.

Dans le cadre de son colloque annuel, le Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes (CRCCF) a remis le Prix du CRCCF 2026 à Lucie Hotte, professeure émérite du Département de français de l’Université d’Ottawa.

The University of Ottawa Library is delighted to announce that Professor Matthew McInnes is the recipient of the 2026 Open Scholarship Award. Since 2016, the Open Scholarship Award has recognized faculty leaders who demonstrate excellence in supporting and practicing open scholarship.

Common Law students Selin Yalcin, Stefan Tampu and Jarek Landori-Hoffman won the Best Policy Briefing and the Best Memorandum to Cabinet Awards at the 2026 Canadian Copyright Policy Moot for their policy proposal reenvisioning library access to protected content in the digital age.