News in Research

2021

• University recognizes promising early career researchers

  Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2021

  The Office of the Vice-President, Research is pleased to give the Early Career Researcher of the Year Award to Aimée Craft and Janet Squires.

• uOttawa-led pan-Canadian network receives $9 million from CIHR to track COVID-19 variants of concern

  A project spearheaded by a researcher at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine has been awarded $9 million in Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

• How the science and technology of light is transforming our lives

  Researchers Karin Hinzer and Pierre Berini discuss their new CFI-funded photonics project and how it will impact the future of technology.

• In all fairness

  Whether he is considering linguistic rights or wealth distribution, philosopher David Robichaud is always concerned with the concepts of equity and justice.

• uOttawa researchers are helping Canada beat the rising heat

  A research program led by Glen Kenny at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Carolyn Tateishi at Health Canada brings together global experts who will assess the factors that affect an individual’s physiological tolerance to heat.

• Inspiring EDI stories: A female math researcher and one-time refugee’s path

  If being a woman in science is a challenge, being an international student and one-time war refugee on top of that requires exceptional determination and support. This has been the case for Afghan PhD student Masoomeh Akbari.

• Partnering with the marginalized

  Smita Pakhalé enlists members of marginalized communities to work alongside academics in a novel approach to health-care research.

• uOttawa research receives $23-million boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

  Posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2021

  Five uOttawa projects (of eight submitted) received a total of more than $23 million from the 2020 Innovation Fund.

• The smaller the better

  Stephen Newman and his team are helping industry produce chemicals more safely and sustainably.

• Solving Canadian health challenges through systems biology

  The University of Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology (OISB) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are initiating an exciting collaboration on systems biology, aimed at solving some of today’s most significant health challenges.