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It’s been over a year since Dr. Monica Gattinger invited me to join the Positive Energy Team, within the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, at the University of Ottawa. As the team’s art consultant, I’ve learned a lot and contributed a little; my personal growth as an artist and as a thinker has grown exponentially. I’m thankful.

The Exploration stream of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) has granted a total of $3M to 12 researchers from the University of Ottawa and its affiliated hospital research institutes to support their innovative, high-risk high-reward research projects.

To address the challenges of a dwindling global supply of energy and mineral resources, Professor Mark Hannington of the University of Ottawa’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has set his sights on the bottom of the ocean.

Tenille E. Brown, student member of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), has been appointed as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University.

HRREC members, Professor Magda Donia (Telfer School of Management) and Ph. D. Candidate in law Salvador Herencia, with their colleagues Sigalit Ronen, Robert McCorquodale and Sara Seck, are coauthors of an article published in the journal Sustainability.

A new online course on Human Rights with Professor John Packer will be offered to uOttawa students in the Fall semester. The course will be in English and is entitled “DCC 4119 – Human Rights and Governance: The Human Rights Based Approach to Policy, Law and Development”.

The University of Ottawa, through its Kanata North campus and CO-OP program, will provide access to skilled talent as part of the Kanata North Business Association’s (KNBA) COVID-19 business resilience efforts in Canada’s largest technology park.

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that PhD candidate Esther Ekong has been awarded an International Peace Scholarship by the Philanthropic Educational Organization.

The postwar ingenuity of Stanford University and its role in building Silicon Valley as a technological epicentre are legendary. One of the keys to its success was the meeting of academia, the private sector and government, a model that serves as inspiration for successful technology parks around the world and now for the University of Ottawa’s latest venture: a partnership with Kanata North, bill...

The Canada Research Chairs Program has released equity target results for 76 postsecondary institutions across the country that set goals to address the underrepresentation of women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities among chairholders. The results reflect representation as of December 1, 2019.