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For Professor Irene (Irena) Makaryk, the arts aren’t a luxury. They’re a means of survival.

The University of Ottawa celebrated excellence in research communication at its fifth annual uOGRADflix Competition Showcase.

Professor Myriam Brouard, an Assistant Professor at Telfer School of Management, specializes in Consumer Culture Theory, offering insight into modern consumer behaviour. She is currently researching how Heated Rivalry, a queer hockey romance, exploded in popularity after its TV adaptation premiered in late 2025. We asked her about her research into the series:

Sometimes an entire life is redrawn with a single word. For Dr. Francis Chu-Yin Wong, that word came from the University of Ottawa in 1955: yes.

Speaking a common language has a major impact on the quality of health care. Communication gaps between healthcare providers and patients can result in diagnostic errors, an inability to provide informed consent, and inappropriate treatment, hence the importance of proactively encouraging patients to express themselves in the official language of their choice.

Primary care has long been the backbone of a strong health-care system that people turn to for everyday concerns, preventive care and ongoing support. Today, that backbone is under strain. Many Ontarians can’t find a family doctor, walk-in clinics are harder to access, emergency rooms are overloaded and private, out-of-pocket services are emerging to fill the gaps.

When Audrey Giles, a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, speaks about Umerdad Khudadad, a fourth-year human kinetics PhD student she’s supervising, one word keeps coming up: remarkable. And with good reason. In a few years, Khudadad has worked on an ambitious doctoral thesis and become not only a registered nurse in Canada, but also a permanent resident, a researcher funded by prestigious...

McDonald's Canada has frozen the prices of value meals and certain coffees for one year.

Troubles de voisinage, diffamation civile, défectuosité d’un produit, intimidation, bagarre de rue, altercation avec les forces policières sont autant d’exemples qui sont susceptibles d’engager une poursuite en responsabilité civile de la part de la victime.

A leading scholar on the ethics of autonomous and intelligent systems, Dr. Jason Millar has been renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Ethical Engineering of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.