News in Research

2021

• Exceptional University researcher elected to prestigious academy

  Posted on Thursday, April 8, 2021

  Professor Chibuike Udenigwe has earned international recognition with his recent election to the prestigious Global Young Academy.

• Urban shift

  What does it take to build greener cities? Daina Mazutis shows how progressive business leadership can go a long way. 

• Human dignity across the lifespan

  Driven by a keen sense of justice, Michelle Giroux contributes to legal reforms by addressing new realities facing families and the health sector.

• 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.