News in Research

2019

• Stemming from experience: uOBMRI names long-time researcher Dr. Ruth Slack as new director

  Those who know Dr. Ruth Slack recognize the strengths she has to lead the uOttawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) as its new director. The Institute brings together top researchers from many disciplines, including international leaders in their fields.

• Using AI to predict better health outcomes

  Suppose clinicians want to predict whether a patient will experience post-operative complications. Though they have detailed physiological data on previous patients and their own experience and expertise to guide them, assessing potential risks can be difficult at best.

• On the frontlines of a challenging issue

  For more than a decade, uOttawa law professor Nathalie Chalifour has analyzed the constitutionality of federal climate legislation.

• A Slippery Slope: How climate change is reshaping the Arctic landscape

  Sixty-fold increase in the number of landslides is caused by melting ice.

• New University of Ottawa-Mitacs agreement boosts international student research placements

  MIT, NASA and the World Bank are some of the institutions that will host research placements for more than 50 of our students this summer.

• The University recognizes two young researchers for their outstanding work

  The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that the Young Researcher of the Year Award has been granted to professors Beverly Baker and Anne Broadbent.

• Congratulations to the participants and winners of UROP 2019!

  More than 250 students gathered in the Tabaret Hall to present their undergraduate research projects on Wednesday, March 20.

• Expanding the University’s research on the Francophonie

  This year, the University of Ottawa will celebrate International Francophonie Day with the launch of a new research chairs program dedicated to the study of the Francophonie around the world.

• Shaping research through an Inuit lens

  Master’s student Heather Ochalski was one of more than a dozen Inuit graduate students from across Canada who gathered at the first Inuit Graduate Student Winter Institute, recently held at the University of Ottawa.

• From carpets to computers: Women’s work and intellectual property law

  Ghazaleh Jerban is one of two 2018 graduate student recipients of the new Ingenium-uOttawa Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology.