News in Research

2016

• Discovery district will boost STEM space

  Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2016

  “This fantastic, once-in-a-generation opportunity is something we’ve been hoping to do for years,” said Mona Nemer, vice-president, research.

• Winner of the 2016 Holiday Greeting Card Contest

  Posted on Monday, December 12, 2016

  Congratulations to Hannah Gorham-Smith, a biochemistry student in the Faculty of Science!

• Analysis of 170-year-old thumbnail rewrites Franklin Expedition history

  Posted on Wednesday, December 7, 2016

  A study conducted by a group of Canadian scientists and published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports debunks a longstanding myth surrounding the ill-fated end of the Franklin Expedition.

• University of Ottawa awarded two new Canada Research Chairs

  Posted on Friday, December 2, 2016

  The University of Ottawa has been awarded two new Canada Research Chairs and eight more have been renewed.

• Can gut bacteria cause Crohn’s disease? uOttawa and CHEO researchers point to new ways to treat the disease

  Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2016

  In a new study published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), along with international collaborators, reveal new insights into treating Crohn’s disease (CD), which affects a growing number of children in Canada.

• Mona Nemer joins the ranks of AAAS fellows

  Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2016

  Vice-President, Research Mona Nemer has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the esteemed journal Science. Nemer, who is also a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, was named for her “distinguished contributions to molecular understanding of heart development and function and for excellence in the development of scientific and research organizations.” Congratulations!

• The most difficult decision: helping parents make life-or-death choices

  Posted on Monday, November 28, 2016

  Every day, soon-to-be parents across Canada receive some of the most difficult news a physician can deliver: that their unborn child is at high risk of being born at the limit of viability. Parents are confronted with situations where their vulnerable infant is potentially facing life with a range of handicaps, or even death.

• 2017 John Charles Polanyi Prizes Nomination

  Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2016

  In honour of the achievement of John Charles Polanyi, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Government of the Province of Ontario has established a fund to provide annually up to five prizes to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who are continuing to post-doctoral studies or have recently started a faculty appointment at an Ontario university. In 2016, the prizes have a value of $20,000 each and are available in the areas broadly defined as Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economic Science.

• Prestigious Polanyi Prize in Chemistry awarded to uOttawa Professor

  Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2016

  Stephen Newman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Ottawa is the recipient of the 2016 Polanyi Prize.

• uOttawa Research: Getting older? Sleep may not help your memory after all

  Posted on Wednesday, November 9, 2016

  First, the good news: a University of Ottawa researcher has discovered that younger individuals have the ability to consolidate new memories and skills while they sleep. The bad news? The same study shows that in older adults, age-related changes in sleep may hamper this ability.