News in Research

2019

• Winner of the 2019 Holiday Greeting Card Contest

  Posted on Monday, December 9, 2019

  Congratulations to Kira F. Robinson who won the Holiday Greeting Card Contest!

• Driving research into the future

  As the University of Ottawa charts its vision for the next decade with Transformation 2030, we’re taking research in a new direction.

• IBM Canada and uOttawa Launch Cybersecurity Hub

  New research partnership will address public and private sector needs for advanced cybersecurity and cyber safety.

• uOttawa chosen to be part of the new Dimensions diversity pilot program

  The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that it is one of 17 Canadian institutions selected to take part in the Dimensions: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada pilot project.

• NSERC gifts $18 million to help fund the next-gen of researchers at uOttawa

  Mona Fortier, Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Vanier, was on our campus on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, to announce $18,518,580 in support for discovery research at uOttawa. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.