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As the days grow shorter and the air crisper, Halloween looms with its eerie charm. Costumes, decorations and treats are all in good fun, but for workplaces, the spooky season brings its own set of safety challenges. Whether you’re in an office, a laboratory or a workshop, in the field or at Facilities, it’s important to keep health and safety at the forefront to avoid any real-life scares. Th...

When Alex Neve steps to the podium at the National Arts Centre on October 30 to deliver the final 2025 CBC Massey Lecture, he'll call on all of us to see that the promise of human rights lies in our willingness to act, collectively, for one another.

A personal loss was pivotal in guiding Shawna Button (MAEd '25) toward a career as a psychotherapist and in deepening her commitment to mental health care.

What if sports were about belonging, not just winning? In English Canada, the idea might sound strange. But for Ontario’s French-speaking minority, sports have long been a bridge between language and identity.

How do young people learn to engage with democracy outside of classrooms and political institutions? The newly released book Doing Democracy in "Third Places": Youth Citizenship Education explores exactly that.

On October 21, 2025, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) participated in the fourth conference of the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA), held at the Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico.

The University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute (uOBMRI) is pleased to announce the return of its 3rd annual Rockin' with the Docs fundraiser on Friday, December 12, 2025, at the Rainbow Bistro in the Byward Market. This lively event will welcome back to the stage Phenotype, a talented band of clinical and research professionals from the University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital, a...

Le Département de français de l’Université d’Ottawa est fier d’accueillir Mishka Lavigne à titre d’écrivaine en résidence pour l’année universitaire 2025-2026.

What drives someone to explore the invisible mechanisms that shape life across generations? For Niepukolie Nipu, a PhD student in biology at uOttawa, the answer lies in an insatiable curiosity — and a determination to uncover how environmental stress affects physiology and behaviour in directly exposed zebrafish and how it can be transmitted to offspring. His research is contributing to a better u...

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