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As 2024 draws to a close, we celebrate a year shaped by transformative ideas and productive collaboration. This year’s milestones reflect our research community’s dedication to advancing knowledge. Supported by the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, these achievements underscore our commitment to fostering meaningful progress.

Precisely dating archeological finds, monitoring environmental pollutants for regulatory agencies, examining the long-term effects of nuclear accidents such as the one in Fukushima, Japan, or evaluating water and ice cores to identify markers that indicate climate change. These are just a few of the analyses conducted at the André E. Lalonde National Facility in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AEL-...

Founded in 1936, the University of Ottawa Press is Canada's oldest French-language university press, and the largest publishing house in the National Capital Region. Formerly located on the University's main campus, the University of Ottawa Press will now be located in downtown Ottawa at 99 Bank Street, to welcome the community.

uOttawa professor and team go back 14,000 years to show links between mammoths and early hunter-gatherer communities

This year brought many important advances in the life sciences and cybersecurity sectors, both for the University of Ottawa and the National Capital Region. The launch of the Health Sciences building, the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI), the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub (CP2H) and the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range all give reason for a positive, hopeful future for Canadians in 2024.

The unique academia / industry partnership will offer immersive cybersecurity response training through highly realistic, simulated cyberattack and cyber threat simulations.

The Pleodendron costaricense is an ancient tree on the verge of extinction. Only nine specimens are known to exist. Found in Costa Rica, in the mountains near the Pacific Ocean and in the Osa Peninsula, the tree is referred to by botanists as a “living fossil” because of its historic lineage.

When patients are suspected of having a primary brain tumour, also known as a glioma, they typically undergo a biopsy or a resection — procedures that involve surgically removing a sample of the tumour to further analyze it. Biopsies help oncologists confirm the existence of a tumour and determine whether it’s malignant or benign. This data also guides oncologists in choosing the proper course of ...

To meet the growing demand for mental health and well-being support, there’s a pressing need to develop and expand resources and support systems. Understanding the complexities and nuances surrounding mental health and wellness has become of utmost importance.

Majestic, immense, and extinct — mammoths were not expected to have walked almost twice the circumference of the Earth over the span of their lives. This is what a team of scientists co-led by Professor Clément Bataille found when analysing an Arctic woolly mammoth tusk.