News in Research

2013

• University of Ottawa ranks among top 200 universities in the world according to Leiden Ranking

  Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013

  OTTAWA, April 25, 2013 — The University of Ottawa has done it again: it has proven the outstanding quality and achievements of its research community. According to the latest rankings issued by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, uOttawa has placed among the top 200 universities of the 500 major universities in the world in terms of its impact on life sciences, science and engineering, social sciences and the humanities.

• Academic success factors: study shows that importance of high school language courses is underestimated

  Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2013

  OTTAWA, August 20, 2013 — Students’ transition from high school to first year university can be hard, but the University of Ottawa is trying to ease the integration process through a program giving new students access to mentors from their home regions.

• Cancer researchers receive Quality of Life grants

  Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

  OTTAWA, April 17, 2013 — Two University of Ottawa professors have received Quality of Life Research Grants from the Canadian Cancer Society. Professor Robert Klaassen’s research aims to assess the impact of treatments on the quality of life of patients with incurable blood disorders, and Professor Roanne Thomas will research factors that affect the breast cancer experiences of First Nations, Inuit and Métis women.

• uOttawa researchers highlight sex industry “third parties” and sex worker safety

  Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013

  OTTAWA, April 17, 2013 — Researchers from the University of Ottawa have released the findings of a three-year study on “third parties” in the adult and sex industries, including their role in sex worker safety.

• Highest honours from Chemical Society of Japan for uOttawa professor Howard Alper

  Posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013

  OTTAWA, April 11, 2013 — Howard Alper, who holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at uOttawa,  has been made an honorary foreign member of the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ). 

• Research breakthrough: uOttawa physicist makes first direct measurements of quantum states of light

  Posted on Tuesday, March 5, 2013

  OTTAWA, March 5, 2013 — A groundbreaking discovery by a team led by Robert Boyd has enabled the first direct measure of polarization states of photon light, the directions in which the electric and magnetic fields of light oscillate.

• The Malaria Epidemic in Africa: an Underestimated Socio-economic Disaster

  Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

  OTTAWA, February 20, 2013 — A University of Ottawa researcher has shown that the socio-economic effects of the malaria epidemic on African populations have been largely underestimated and that new research is needed to quickly gain a more accurate assessment of the situation.

• For a smarter body-mind connection and a sustainable digital city: uOttawa projects receive NSERC Strategic Grants

  Posted on Friday, February 8, 2013

  OTTAWA, February 8, 2013 — Two eminent University of Ottawa researchers will share a total of $960 337 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to fund research into changing the way we self-monitor our health and establishing a technically viable and environmentally sustainable digital city.

• Fighting fat with fat: stem cell discovery identifies potential obesity treatment

  Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2013

  OTTAWA, February 5, 2013 — Ottawa scientists have discovered a trigger that turns muscle stem cells into brown fat, a form of good fat that could play a critical role in the fight against obesity. 

• uOttawa physicist is third Canadian ever to win prestigious international science prize

  Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013

  OTTAWA, January 30, 2013 — University of Ottawa professor and National Research Council (NRC) scientist Paul Corkum joins the elite ranks of three Canadians to win the King Faisal International Prize for Science, one of the world’s most prestigious awards, for his ground-breaking development of attosecond imaging.