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The Dean's 2025 Ceremony of Excellence took place on December 3. This annual event was an opportunity to highlight the achievements of students, alumni, researchers, professors, administrative personnel and the wider Faculty family.

On December 1, our community converged on its university to mark a historic moment: the installation of Marie-Eve Sylvestre, the first woman president of the University of Ottawa.

Once again, the University of Ottawa has confirmed its stellar reputation for research, placing within the top five research-intensive universities in Canada according to Research Infosource Inc.

Costco has joined a lawsuit by companies suing the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs.

Professor Melike Erol-Kantarci has been honoured with the 2025 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Outstanding Achievement Award, recognizing her influential research in AI-enabled wireless network, her leadership in emerging 6G technologies, and her commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion within the communications engineering community.

Driven by a strong interest in public and constitutional law, Sarah Gagnon, a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, explores how the Governor General might help prevent executive abuse of power, and how unwritten constitutional principles can justify such interventions in a time of democratic decline.

On December 2, students and faculty members were recognized for their outstanding academic achievements.

As a teenager in an Iranian desert town, when Nazanin Dehghan gazed at the stars, she was captivated by the patterns and mysteries of the night sky. That early fascination with constellations eventually led her into the world of quantum photonics, an area where light behaves in even more astonishing ways. Now a PhD student in uOttawa’s Structured Quantum Optics group, Nazanin is the 2024 recipient...

In a world overflowing with data, how can we quickly identify the most relevant information? This question lies at the heart of Professor Aaron Smith’s work with the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC), a leader in data science and visualization. For over a decade, Smith has advanced computational statistics, helping to develop tools that summarize unstructured data and automatica...

We are happy to announce the 2025 Impact Grants Program recipients. We have successfully funded 10 projects to accelerate brain–heart (B–H) research that has the potential to quickly deliver important and timely outcomes, and contribute to sustainable long-term health, societal and/or economic impacts that are equitable in their process and impact. Below is the list of awardees along with their af...