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Please find below all the news articles for February 2022.

It’s time for fairness and consistency in welcoming excellence from Africa. Reflections by Sanni Yaya, Vice-President, International and Francophonie, University of Ottawa.

Student-athletes on the Gee-Gees women’s varsity sport teams have made history time and time again, and as we look forward, we want to build on that success in exciting new ways.

Congratulations to Yasmin Rajwani, 4th year bachelor student at the School of International Development and Global Studies, for being selected as one of the Odgers Berndtson's CEOx1Day Finalists for this year's Future Leaders summit.

Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing her legal studies.

Lunch ‘n’ Learn

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Céline Castets-Renard was recently awarded a SSHRC Parternship Engage Grant for a project entitled “Profilage racial et impact des technologies utilisées par la police à Montréal-Saint Michel”.

Information Integrity Lab will bring together a cross-disciplinary international network of experts to highlight actor behind misinformation, provide solutions.

Last year’s wildfires and floods in British Columbia and droughts in the Prairies reminded us that climate change remains one of the greatest long-term threats that we face. Mitigating its most detrimental effects will require a substantial shift in how we live, work, and invest so that the carbon emissions that cause global warming are reduced.

A new grant program aims to provide our top-flight researchers with the assistance needed to bring the benefits of their most promising breakthroughs to the wider world.