As a teacher to first-grade students, Hoda Ahmed, BEd '20, fields a lot of curious questions prompted by her being both visibly Black and Muslim. In addition to teaching, our second trailblazer is a master’s student in uOttawa’s Faculty of Education. She also holds a pair of bachelor’s degrees from uOttawa: one in linguistics, the other in education.

There’s a lot more to university that just gaining knowledge and skills in a given discipline. Students also have an opportunity to develop basic skills, often known as general or transferable skills. These skills, which are rarely listed on a syllabus, are just as essential for a successful career and effective citizenship. At uOttawa, we’ve decided to highlight these skills and to give them a na...

This collection of articles on well-being should help you start off the year on the right foot. 

The uOttawa Library now offers easy access to nearly 23.5 million resources from university libraries across the province.

To mark National AccessAbility Week, the Gazette spoke to Marie-Claude Gagnon, senior officer on accessibility policy at the Human Rights Office. We took the opportunity to clear up notions about accessibility and discuss some on-campus initiatives, including course syllabus updates and access to adaptive digital tools.

What if moving online was the pandemic’s silver lining? Professor François Larocque and students enrolled in his CML 4519 Les droits linguistiques au Canada [Language Rights in Canada] course examined this idea when they tested the planctus application across Canada.

Professor Boulou Ebanda de B'béri’s appointment follows the announcement last week by President Frémont of a new Action Committee on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence.

To empower our University mental health leaders, we have compiled the following list of resources and training to improve mental health literacy and provide guidance on responding to students in distress.

Professor Stéphane Brutus, an accomplished academic with a longstanding legacy of leadership at Concordia University, will begin his new role at uOttawa in early March 2021.

With its booth at the Canadian Science Policy Conference 2022 (CSPC2022), taking place from November 16 to 18, 2022, the University of Ottawa, a vital partner in shaping Canada's public and scientific policies, will showcase its  research centres and institutes, whose researchers particularly focus on public policy issues.