News in Research

2012

• Azzedine Boukerche receives the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award

  Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2012

  OTTAWA, May 3, 2012 — IEEE conferred this award on Professor Boukerche in recognition of his significant services as a founding leader for several workshops and fostering an international research community on performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc networking and mobile computing

• University of Ottawa’s MDI2 leading way in medical device R&D worldwide

  Posted on Tuesday, May 1, 2012

  OTTAWA, May 1, 2012 — Medical device technologies developed by world-renowned scientist and inventor Dr. Tofy Mussivand and his team at the University of Ottawa Medical Devices Innovation Institute (MDI²) have positioned Canada at the leading edge of scientific breakthroughs in the field.

• Excessive weight gain during pregnancy a predictor for above-average birth weight

  Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 17, 2012 — One out of every two women of reproductive age is overweight or obese. Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, from the University of Ottawa (faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences) and from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute set out to discover if overweight or obese women are in fact more likely to give birth to above average weight babies, as reported in the Journal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine.

• eButterfly: your window to monitoring Canada’s butterflies

  Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 12, 2012 — Notice anything strange about the weather recently? Species living near you certainly have. Recent warming has caused dramatic northward expansion and earlier appearance among many Canadian species, including butterflies. Can we help them survive these changes? To help answer the question, biologists at the University of Ottawa have developed eButterfly, a new electronic monitoring tool.

• Research finds why many women have folic acid deficiency during pregnancy

  Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 11, 2012 — A research team including University of Ottawa scientists has discovered the main reason why one in five women do not have the level of folic acid needed to guard against neural tube defects in newborns. Cynthia Colapinto and Dr. Lise Dubois from Institute of Population Health and Dr. Mark Tremblay of the Department of Pediatrics examined a nation-wide study and found that many women do not take the folic acid supplement recommended.

• Researchers say supervised consumption facilities would improve health of drug users in Ottawa and Toronto

  Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 11, 2012 — Toronto and Ottawa would both benefit from the creation of supervised injection facilities, according to research released today.

• Preparing for the challenges of an HIV-infected ageing population

  Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 4, 2012 — An article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the world is not yet prepared to deal with an HIV-infected ageing population.

• Changes in asthma treatment improve wait time and patient care in Emergency

  Posted on Tuesday, April 3, 2012

  OTTAWA, April 3, 2012 — Dr. Roger Zemek, Director of Emergency Research at the CHEO Research Institute and ED physician, and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, has overseen the creation and implementation of a Medical Directive that now empowers nurses to administer an oral steroid treatment, which has reduced wait time and improved patient care. This research is published today in Pediatrics.

• uOttawa partners with Golf Association of Ontario to improve player development and club bottom lines

  Posted on Friday, March 30, 2012

  OTTAWA, March 30, 2012 — The University of Ottawa is partnering with the Golf Association of Ontario (GAO) in the first research study to measure the value of offering coaching and long-term athlete development programs at golf clubs, both in terms of player development and financial viability.

• Exposure to maternal depression sows seeds of teenage emotional disorders

  Posted on Monday, March 26, 2012

  OTTAWA, March 26, 2012 — Dr. Ian Colman, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and a Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Epidemiology, has published a study showing that children face an increased risk of depression in their teens if their mother suffered from depression when they were toddlers.