News in Research

2021

• Visionary uOttawa researchers win Governor General’s Innovation Award

  Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2021

  Professors Xiaoyi Bao and Jackie Dawson are the University of Ottawa’s first laureates of the Governor General’s Innovation Award.

• Ingenium-University of Ottawa Graduate Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology

  Are you a graduate student at uOttawa? You could gain exclusive access to Ingenium museum collections for your research. Apply for a fellowship worth up to $10,000 before May 31, 2021.

• How do we make our infrastructure stand up to natural disasters?

  Professors Ioan Nistor and Colin Rennie from the Faculty of Engineering will be leading an international team of academic, government, and industry experts in looking at ways to mitigate and prevent damage and loss of life from water-related hazards.

• Playing politics with social media

  Elizabeth Dubois probes the changing face of public discourse in an era where tweets can alter lives.

• Crime and cryptocurrency

  Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2021

  Computer science professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan and doctoral candidate Emad Badawi team up with an international think tank to uncover cyber scams before they claim victims.

• 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.