“What can be better than advancing social justice while making friends?” says Professor Patti Tamara Lenard. With the help of many, including uOttawa colleague Emily Regan Wills, she founded Rainbow Haven, a local group that supports the resettlement of LGBTQ+ refugees in Ottawa.

After sustaining serious injuries from a car accident in high school, Jesse Lesniowski is now a proud uOttawa graduate and an advocate for the environment and for self-care, especially for students living with disabilities. This is his story.

After 10 years of organizing and promoting sports and recreational activities for uOttawa faculty and staff, our Healthy and Active Campus champions demonstrate how they’ve adapted to the pandemic.

In a normal year at uOttawa, 3,800 students move into 11 residence buildings over a span of five days. This year, things were significantly different. Only 1,000 students will be living in residence this fall, and the majority of those students moved in over a nine-day period, from August 29 to September 6.

Earlier this year, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) was awarded nearly $5 million in funding for the "One Health" project on epidemics involving researchers from the University of Ottawa.  For the launch of the DOPERAUS project (Decentralize and Make Operational the "ONE HEALTH" Platforms), two researchers from the University of Ottawa, Stéphanie Maltais and...

Professor Agnes Grudniewicz, and two Telfer MHA students, Maddie Venables and Amanda Larocque, received a School of Management Indigenous Research Support Grantto develop an anti-racism assessment tool for medical education curricula. 

We asked students to nominate professors who knocked it out of the park with their online courses last Winter and Spring-Summer terms after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Here’s what they had to say about the profs who delivered a stellar virtual learning experience.

The pandemic has left many Canadians wondering why the country can’t produce its own COVID-19 vaccines.

On March 20 we celebrate the International Day of La Francophonie. For Sanni Yaya, Vice-President International and Francophonie at the University of Ottawa, it’s a chance to reaffirm our deep connection to the French language, to its diverse cultures and to a French-speaking world of rich contrasts and shared destinies. 

Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing her legal studies.