All news

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

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.

Professor Allyson MacLean is leading an ambitious project to grow fresh, locally produced strawberries — even in the dead of winter. Supported by a $1-million grant from the Weston Family Foundation’s Homegrown Innovation Challenge, the True North Berries initiative is testing a new vertical farming system that could help transform Canadian agriculture.

It is well known that in Canada, countless spirited debates revolve around official languages and their authenticity and resilience. “Does mixing languages result in their deterioration, as many believe? Are grammatical structures eroding from one generation to the next? Should we be worried about the integrity of French, or even its survival?” These are the types of questions th...

A recent study is shedding light on the factors that contributed to the significant wildfires in Manitoba in May 2025. The research explores how unusual weather patterns and stressed vegetation combined to create an ideal environment for disaster.

Professor Shiva Nejati, a software engineering researcher at the University of Ottawa, is collaborating with industry leaders like BlackBerry to make complex software systems more reliable.

In its commitment to promoting bilingual access to landmark decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Faculty of Law has contributed to a major project to translate the Court’s historic rulings.