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Thanks to a generous gift from Alex Trebek, the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue at the University of Ottawa is supporting the creation of a new research project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Healthy Humans and Environments to shape the future of health, food and environmental policy making at the AI + Society Initiative.

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The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Paul Daly has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project entitled Artificial Administration: Administrative Law, Administrative Justice and Accountability Mechanisms in the Age of Machines.

It didn’t take long for Taha Azad to apply his expertise in luciferase proteins, the enzymes that cause fireflies to glow, to novel approaches to cancer research, then to research on a vaccine and drug for COVID-19. “During my childhood in northern Iran, I used to observe fireflies and was curious about how they were emitting light,” he says.

As the popular wisdom says, music is good for the soul, and delving into the benefits of music on the body and the mind, as well as on the problems that can affect them, is precisely at the core of the mission of the University of Ottawa’s Music and Health Research Institute (MHRI).

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Dr. Kelly Bronson and Dr. Jason Millar have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for groundbreaking research on big data, artificial intelligence in agriculture, and the policy needs to drive inclusion and sustainability.

From the outside, it appears that COVID-19 has reshaped the contours of Australian energy and climate policy. Superficially, there is much that appears relevant to Canadians: a functional form of federalism, attempts to resolve the climate policy wars, and serious consideration of a trans-continental natural gas pipeline. These developments would have been unimaginable as recently as January 2020;...

Are Canada’s visa policies an obstacle to Canada-Africa research collaboration?

On June 24, 2020, the University of Ottawa, in partnership with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Amnesty International, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), the Faculty of Social Sciences, Open Global Rights, the Global Centre for Pluralism, the Dialogue Advisory Group; the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), and the Human Rights Research and Educa...

The University of Ottawa is proud to announce the awarding of three new University Research Chairs (URC), a new Distinguished Research Chair, and two URC renewals, recognizing the work of exceptional researchers in health, law, and biology.