The University of Ottawa is proud to announce the awarding of three new University Research Chairs (URC), two URC renewals, and a new Distinguished Research Chair.
Three exceptional researchers earn Canada Research Chairs for their cutting-edge research in AI-enabled wireless networks, Indigenous health and wellbeing and sustainable catalysis.
Nine University of Ottawa researchers, five of whom are also members of uOttawa’s affiliated hospital research institutes, have received over $8.6M to accelerate research related to the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and around the world.
Over $1.6 million in funding will go to 11 innovative research projects conducted at uOttawa, under the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships programs.
The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) has granted a total of $3M to 12 researchers from the University of Ottawa and its affiliated hospital research institutes to support their innovative, high-risk high-reward research projects.
Professor Mark Hannington leads an international research and training collaboration to gain a better understanding of the Earth’s crust and the resources it contains.
Professor Jude Mary Cénat, director of the Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture Research (V-TRaC) Lab at the University of Ottawa’s School of Psychology publishes an online turn-key guide to equip mental health professionals in Canada and worldwide with a tool to help communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
