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  The University of Ottawa and the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO), the union representing its full-time faculty members, have reached a tentative agreement. The agreement was reached on Friday, July 9, following several months of discussions between the two parties.   Details of the tentative agreement will no...

The 2020-2021 school year was particularly disruptive for students due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it may also have had some benefits, including mitigating bullying at school, according to a University of Ottawa study.

Eight new research projects are getting underway in Canada to investigate COVID-19 variants of concern (VOCs) and variants of interest (VOIs). These research projects span from investigating the social factors that may protect Indigenous peoples – or increase their vulnerability to – COVID-19 and VOCs, to the creation of a Canadian Wast...

A new risk calculator can help predict how long an older adult will live, and support end-of-life planning. The method used to develop the tool is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Although most Canadians die from predictable causes and have health needs that can be met at home, only 20% of people receive a...

Newly published results highlight that many First Nations want access to traditional foods and environmental factors impact access to food and clean water

As the first university to establish a presence in Kanata North, uOttawa joins as a founding Academic Partner and Shared Anchor in Hub350 The University of Ottawa will join Hub350, a new state-of-the-art global technology centre in Canada’s largest technology park. Located at 350 Legget Drive, home of the original Mitel...

Poll of 1,161 Ontario students shows attitudes toward cannabis differ from alcohol, creating potentially risky and dangerous driving behaviour Ontario students are more likely to get behind the wheel of a vehicle after smoking cannabis than drinking alcohol, a new study from researchers at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine...

Canadian researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, the University of Ottawa, the Bruyère Research Institute and ICES have built and validated an online calculator that empowers individuals 55 and over to better understand the health of their brain and how they can reduce their risk of being diagnosed with dementia in the next five years. Their process was p...

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine has appointed Dr. Sarah Funnell as the Founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health Research and Education (CIHRE). Dr. Funnell, a graduate from the Faculty’s Indigenous program, begins her three-year term on July 1, 2021.A public health specialist and an Anishinaabekwe and Tuscaroran family physi...

He escaped civil war as a child. Now, he’s dedicating his life to helping others Landry Kalembo realized early on that a future in population and public health was his calling. “Growing up, I was constantly exposed to people in need of help, people living in poverty and people suffering from all kinds of tropical illnesses that could o...