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Dr. Louise Stahl successfully defended her PhD in Communication titled “The Credibility Assessment Process of Political Information on WhatsApp in Brazil”.

How do you better understand the realities of communities? By working with them. Community-based research is rooted in close partnerships between researchers, organizations and the communities concerned. Teams identify priorities and develop projects together in a process that draws on collaboration, mutual commitment and knowledge gained from lived experience.

What if a pair of shoes could help detect disease progression before it shows? That’s the promise behind the collaboration between uOttawa researcher Dr. Ryan Graham and Ottawa-based health tech company Celestra Health. By combining wearable technology with AI, their project brings hospital-grade gait analysis into patients’ daily lives—offering a game-changing approach to monitoring neurodegenera...

We know a lot about how to structure boards so they work better — how big they should be, how many independent directors are necessary, and what kinds of diversity matter. But for family-owned firms, there was never a clear answer to a simple but crucial question: how many family members should sit on the board? Our latest research has uncovered a clear and quantifiable answer — and the implicatio...

Rocks formed during the Hadean eon are found in Nunavik, Quebec, north of the 55th parallel.

Biomedical engineering master’s student Jéssica Hernández Juárez researches materials that could improve life after heart attacks and help ease the burden on Canada’s health-care system.

Maya Stanton and Milad Khani have been awarded the 2025 Deirdre G. Martin Memorial Privacy Law Awards by the University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

A team of international researchers led by the University of Ottawa has made a breakthrough in the development of ultra-thin magnets—a discovery that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient electronics, quantum computers, and advanced communication systems.

uOttawa researchers demonstrate new laser power converters to transmit power to further, remote destinations.

Professor Xiaoyi Bao is a leading figure in fibre optic sensing and photonics who has devoted her career to advancing research and supporting the next generation of scientists. Her trailblazing work has been honoured with three major awards from the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)—a first in the organization’s history.