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Please find below all the news articles for February 2023.

Black History Month is more than just an opportunity for the University to celebrate Black achievement on campus; it is a time to reflect and listen to the voices of uOttawa’s many Black communities. It is an opportunity to consider uOttawa’s complicity in systemic anti-Black racism over its 175-year history. Most importantly, it is a chance to consider how we can all work together to make the cam...

This winter, the Faculty of Law has welcomed Professor Brian L. Cox, an expert on the law and ethics of armed conflict, as a visiting scholar to the law school community.

Artificial intelligence technology is advancing at an almost unbelievable rate. Not only can AI now make predictions and decisions, it can also generate original works of art. As AI technology becomes increasingly more ubiquitous, so do the concerns about the associated risks.

The National Indigenous Climate Compass (NICC), an online data analysis tool, is the winning project of a 1-million-dollar grant from the TD Ready Challenge that will help Indigenous communities adapt to and mitigate climate change risks. The tool will be developed at the University of Ottawa collaboratively with the Faculty of Engineering’s Centre for Indigenous Community Infrastructure (CICI), I...

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A new study coming out of the CHEO Research Institute indicates that 96.2% of Canadian children and youth did not meet the 24-hour movement guidelines six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and 73% did not meet screen time recommendations. Researchers found that low parental perceived capability to restrict screen time and less time spent outdoors was a big reason why.

Balarama Holness (BA ’08, BEd ’14) can draw parallels between his uOttawa athletic career and his political activism. Whether it’s politics or football, Balarama says they’re both team sports: they involve mobilizing people from all walks of life and working together in community to achieve shared goals.

The following letter was co-written by the organizing committee of the ‘Tomorrow’s Job: Inclusive Leadership with the Honorable Justice Mahmud Jamal of the Supreme Court of Canada’ event as part of the series BEYOND THE CLASS. The series shares first-hand accounts of experiential learning opportunities and op-eds written by our students.

The Faculty of Medicine formally recognized its 2022–2023 professorial promotions during a virtual ceremony on Thursday, February 23.