News in Research

2021

• Education and research in Canada’s Francophonie: the University of Ottawa presents a brief to the Quebec government

  Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2021

  The University of Ottawa presents a brief during a summit that aims to strengthen ties between Canada's Francophonies.

• Accomplished uOttawa professors earn Canada Research Chairs

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  Outstanding uOttawa researchers earn six CRC to strengthen their expertise in artificial intelligence, health, law, quantum communications and photonics. 

• Expert panel discusses gender and sexual diversity

  In mid-May, the Office of the Vice-President, Research invited an interdisciplinary panel to identify the challenges that members of LGBTQI2S+ communities face in research.

• More Inclusion, Better Research: Inspiring Stories Competition

  Does your research team or project offer an inclusive and/or stimulating environment? Submit your story before June 21, for a chance to be featured in a short video! 

• New research chair examines challenges faced by democracies

  Professor Daniel Stockemer of the School of Political Studies has been awarded the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies.

• Mobilizing Indigenous and Francophone communities through research

  Posted on Monday, May 31, 2021

  Professors Wendy Gifford and François Larocque have won the Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Excellence Award for 2020-2021.

• uOttawa, Wesley Clover launch Alacrity Ottawa to build next generation of Canadian tech entrepreneurs and companies

  Together, uOttawa and Wesley Clover will educate, train and support engineering graduates with mentorship and investment opportunities aimed at fostering a pipeline of new Canadian tech startups.

• uOttawa creates a new research chair in Indigenous law and governance

  Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2021

  The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce the awarding of a new University Research Chair (URC) to Professor Aimée Craft of the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. 

• 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.