News in Research

2021

• Inspiring EDI stories: A female math researcher and one-time refugee’s path

  If being a woman in science is a challenge, being an international student and one-time war refugee on top of that requires exceptional determination and support. This has been the case for Afghan PhD student Masoomeh Akbari.

• uOttawa researchers are helping Canada beat the rising heat

  A research program led by Glen Kenny at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Carolyn Tateishi at Health Canada brings together global experts who will assess the factors that affect an individual’s physiological tolerance to heat.

• Partnering with the marginalized

  Smita Pakhalé enlists members of marginalized communities to work alongside academics in a novel approach to health-care research.

• uOttawa research receives $23-million boost from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

  Posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2021

  Five uOttawa projects (of eight submitted) received a total of more than $23 million from the 2020 Innovation Fund.

• The smaller the better

  Stephen Newman and his team are helping industry produce chemicals more safely and sustainably.

• Solving Canadian health challenges through systems biology

  The University of Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology (OISB) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) are initiating an exciting collaboration on systems biology, aimed at solving some of today’s most significant health challenges.

• Blood memories

  Keri Cheechoo collects stories of reproductive violence against Indigenous women to open a conversation about untold injustices.

• Uncovering the trailblazers who strove to decolonize Africa

  Faculty of Arts associate professor Meredith Terretta recently uncovered how activist lawyers played a major role in the struggle for decolonization in Africa.

• The popular doctor at the COVID-19 dance

  Dr. Hugues Loemba explains his media celebrity and why sharing expertise is critical in stemming pandemic misinformation.

• Professor Aimée Craft receives the Canadian Bar Association President’s Award

  Professor Aimée Craft has been awarded the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award, which recognizes the significant contribution of a Canadian jurist to the legal profession and to the public life of Canada.