News in Research

2013

• Unique study on adoptive parenting sheds light on lack of post-adoption support

  Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013

  OTTAWA, August 13, 2013 — A University of Ottawa researcher, Professor Alice Home, has released a four-part video highlighting the findings of a new study, Special needs adoptive parenting: Canadian stakeholders’ view on parents’ experience and support needs. 

• Kevin Page, former Parliamentary Budget Officer, has been granted a Research Chair on Canadian Government at the University of Ottawa

  Posted on Monday, July 29, 2013

  OTTAWA, July 29, 2013 — The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that Kevin Page has been named to the Jean-Luc Pépin Research Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

• Study shows level of disclosed risks does not predict business performance

  Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013

  OTTAWA, July 10, 2013 — A study by the CGA-Canada Accounting and Governance Research Centre (CGA-AGRC) at the University of Ottawa examined the relationship between risk disclosure and business performance, and found that the level of disclosed risks does not appear to predict the company’s business performance.

• University of Ottawa research excellence recognized: leading researcher appointed to Montfort Hospital position

  Posted on Tuesday, July 2, 2013

  OTTAWA, July 2, 2013 — Once again, the University of Ottawa is in the spotlight thanks to its outstanding researchers. Dr. Denis Prud’homme, full professor in the School of Human Kinetics and former dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, today became the new  associate vice-president research and scientific director of the Institut de recherche de l’Hôpital Montfort (IRHM), the research arm of the Montfort Hospital.

• University of Ottawa cardiologist honoured by National Academy of Sciences of Argentina

  Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2013

  OTTAWA, June 26, 2013 — Adolfo J. de Bold, University of Ottawa professor of pathology and cellular and molecular medicine, has joined the likes of Charles Darwin, Benjamin Gould, Henri Milne-Edwards and Nobel laureates Bernardo Houssay and Luis Leloir as an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina, for his contribution to the advancement of science.

• Using math to kill cancer cells

  Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013

  OTTAWA, June 14, 2013 — Here's a good reason to pay attention in math class. Today, Nature Communications published an article by Ottawa researchers that describes how advanced mathematical modelling can be used to fight cancer. The math predicts how different treatments and genetic modifications might allow cancer-killing, oncolytic viruses to overcome the natural defences that cancer cells use to stave off viral infections.

• $1.9M for international uOttawa-led research on co-existence of state and Aboriginal legal systems

  Posted on Monday, June 3, 2013

  OTTAWA, June 3, 2013 — A team of experts led by University of Ottawa law professor Ghislain Otis has been awarded $1,901,645 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a large-scale project that will lead to a better, more sustainable legal diversity and coexistence of state and Aboriginal systems.

• University of Ottawa student research on women’s health recognized by the Council of Ontario Universities

  Posted on Thursday, May 30, 2013

  OTTAWA, May 30, 2013 — University of Ottawa masters student Jillian Gedeon has received the Women’s Health Scholars Award from the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) for her contribution to bettering the lives of women in Ontario and around the world.

• Dr. Antoine Hakim inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

  Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2013

  OTTAWA, May 1, 2013 — Dr. Antoine Hakim, uOttawa professor, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute and director of the neuroscience program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), will be officially inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame at a ceremony tomorrow in Halifax.

• University of Ottawa ranks among top 200 universities in the world according to Leiden Ranking

  Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013

  OTTAWA, April 25, 2013 — The University of Ottawa has done it again: it has proven the outstanding quality and achievements of its research community. According to the latest rankings issued by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, uOttawa has placed among the top 200 universities of the 500 major universities in the world in terms of its impact on life sciences, science and engineering, social sciences and the humanities.